Re: Netscape in different desks with fvwm2

[Mike Fontenot <mlfasf@home.com>]

Many thanks to Erdmut Pfeifer for a very
informative response!  I'll try that suggestion
ASAP.

One possible show-stopper: I tried dragging the
Messenger window to another desktop, by using
the 2nd mouse button within the pager window.
It worked, but all pop-ups triggered by my
use of the Messenger window popped up in the
original Navigator window. (I'm using no
virtual pages (1x1), just a pure multiple
desktop setup.  Earlier, I used a 3x3 setup,
and when I moved the Messenger window into
an adjacent page by just "pushing through
the edge", the popup problem didn't occur.)

	Mike Fontenot
	mlfasf@home.com

Here's Erdmut's posting, for context:
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just an idea: there's a not too well advertised "-remote" option
to Netscape that can be used to issue commands to be executed in an
*already running* instance of Netscape. So, I assume something like

  netscape -remote 'openInbox()'

should have the desired effect, presuming you know how to have fvwm2
open the resulting new window on a different desktop (which you seem to
have figured out already :)

BTW, similarly, commands like

  netscape -remote 'openURL(http://www.debian.org)'

considerably speed up startup times when trying to open HTML documents
from the commandline, as this avoids launching another instance of
Netscape.

For details see

http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html

and have a look at Netscape's X-resources file Netscape.ad for further
ideas on what you might want to control remotely -- just in case you
start liking that feature :) 

Cheers

-- 
Erdmut Pfeifer