gnome window placement (particularly iceweasel)

[michael-374]

I tried asking on the Debian list but was joyless, any gnome-ites here
know the answer? Thanks, M

> From: michael <cs@...>
> To: debian user <debian-user@...>
> Subject: gnome window placement (particularly iceweasel)
> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:51:44 +0100
>
> Howdy folks,
> I recently upgraded from Etch to Lenny on amd64. I notice that now some
> windows change their position particularly iceweasel. I have 4
> workspaces and 2 monitors (and use nVidia's own driver). The two
> "features" I've noticed but wish to control are
>
> a) if iceweasel starts on the right hand monitor it automatically moves
> to the left hand monitor
>
> b) if iceweasel is already running in the top-left workspace and
> Evolution in the bottom-left, then clicking on a hyperlink in an email
> results in the iceweasel window moving to the bottom-left window
>
> I've looked around but can't see where this (new) behaviour is set.
>
> Thanks in adv, M
>  
>
>

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[N B Day-3]

On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 16:41 +0100, michael wrote:
> >
> > b) if iceweasel is already running in the top-left workspace and
> > Evolution in the bottom-left, then clicking on a hyperlink in an email
> > results in the iceweasel window moving to the bottom-left window
> >
> > I've looked around but can't see where this (new) behaviour is set.
> >
> > Thanks in adv, M

I dunno about problem (a) (wish *I* had two monitors).

Problem b is fixed (in Firefox, so probably in Iceweasel too) by opening
a tab, typing "about:config," which gets you to a bunch of setup keys.

Find the key:


browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground

Change to true.

HTH

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[michael-374]

On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 09:59 -0700, N B Day wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 16:41 +0100, michael wrote:
> > >
> > > b) if iceweasel is already running in the top-left workspace and
> > > Evolution in the bottom-left, then clicking on a hyperlink in an email
> > > results in the iceweasel window moving to the bottom-left window
> > >
> > > I've looked around but can't see where this (new) behaviour is set.
> > >
> > > Thanks in adv, M
>
> I dunno about problem (a) (wish *I* had two monitors).
>
> Problem b is fixed (in Firefox, so probably in Iceweasel too) by opening
> a tab, typing "about:config," which gets you to a bunch of setup keys.
>
> Find the key:
>
>
> browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground
>
> Change to true.
>
> HTH
>

Brill & ace... thought it might be in about:config but had no idea
which! It works as required.

M

PS - my 2 monitors are old and power-hungry... a single 21" TFT would be
a better equivalent (but nobody's thrown one away (to me) yet).

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