Problem with virtual desktops

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sat Feb 4 04:37:07 UTC 2012


On 02/04/2012 12:34 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 02/03/2012 10:30 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 02/04/2012 12:08 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>> I am running Fedora-16 KDE on my laptop,
>>> with 8 virtual desktops.
>>> If I click on the pager widget in the panel
>>> (not sure of the proper name for this)
>>> highlighting eg desktop 3,
>>> and then click on the Terminal icon in the panel,
>>> a konsole window is opened,
>>> but not in the desktop I chose.
>>> As far as I can see, the desktop is more or less random.
>>> This is annoying, because it often covers a window already in use.
>>>
>>> How can I open a terminal in a given desktop, please?
>>>
>> You have a Terminal icon in the panel?  How did you place it there?
>>
>> I didn't have one, so I went to the menu and right-clicked on konsole
>> and selected "Add to panel".  When I select a desktop from the pager and
>> then click on the newly created Terminal icon it always brings up the
>> terminal in the current desktop.
>>
>>
> He said it was in pager - so perhaps he started on - and clicked top
> left corner - and chose To Desktop->All Desktops

What then does "then click on the Terminal icon in the panel" mean?

>
>  If that happened, then perhaps it would do as he described?
>
>  if so - just click top corner and To Desktop and select one of them
> install of all.
>
>  I could be way off base of course ...
>
>  

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