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Does anyone know what the command is to get the current virtual screen from
olvwm? How about to make the screens "blank"? This is a shot in the dark,
but oh well!

Thanks in advance!

The system we are working on uses olvwm :( and it can't be changed. Do you
know how to do this in olvwm?? I wish there was a GET_DESKTOP function like
the MOVE_DESKTOP available....

OK, well what I need it for simply put, is for a application in any virtual
window on olvwm 4.2o to magically warp to the first desktop, save the layout
(workspace) and then magically warp back to the original desktop. I can't go
to another window manager cause it would break too much shit. We have a few
apps that don't respond very well to normal save workspace save's thus the
desire to warp to the first desktop. I don't think I can find a way to do
this and am considering a block on saving the workspace on any window but
the first. OK, so maybe that will give you an idea of what Im trying to do,
and Im very close to "blocking" this all together really soon cause of time
constraints.

Thanks for taking the time to read this!
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        This won't work. Applications don't "know" about olvwm, per se,
        or about its virtual desktop. The best you can do is make them
        sticky and manually go to the home desktop and then return. If
        you can code, you could try working on the olvwm source code to
        see if you can make it do it. It would know about its virtual
        desktops, so you could come up with something to keep track of
        them (a push and pop routine). Perhaps an option in olvwm's desktop
        icon's popup menu. But this still isn't "magical" and will require
        manual action. You can find the source at Sunfreeware.

        Naturally, no surprise that its beyond that scrip kiddie, Plugger.
        Just like he doesn't know about booting from an external CD-ROM
        on an Ultra 1 and has never read the passwd(4) man page. If its
        not at Google, he's lost.

Quote:> I can't go
> to another window manager cause it would break too much shit. We have a few
> apps that don't respond very well to normal save workspace save's thus the
> desire to warp to the first desktop.

        Can you describe what happens with these apps? Sounds like
        a bug of some sort.

-am     ? 2002