[dundee] Locking Windows to Virtual Desktops in Gnome

[Rick Moynihan]

2008/5/2 Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan at gmail.com>:
> 2008/5/1 azmodie <azmodie at gmail.com>:
>
> > Hi rick,
>  >
>  > i tend to use compiz-fusion as my dektop manager under gnome instead of
>  > metacity.
>  > there is a compiz plugin called place windows
>  > http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org/Plugins/Place
>  >  which lets me assign my application to specific viewports.
>
>  Yes, I've tried it with compiz too.  Here things are a little
>  different.  Though the application stays routed on the correct
>  virtual-desktop, my current desktop changes to the one housing the
>  application.
>
>  e.g. When Firefox is on desktop 1, and I am in my mail client on
>  desktop 2 and I click a URL in an email, my current desktop changes to
>  desktop 1 to display the URL in Firefox.
>
>  I'm not sure what setting I've got that's different butit doesn't
>  appear to happen on my colleagues machine.

Just fixed it, by doing the following:

mv ~/.gnome/compiz{,-old}

And restarting X.  Still curious as to what the option was.

I'll delete my old config when I'm happy everythings working.

R.