Re: command line workspace switch

[Torsten Reuss <t.reuss@gmx.net>]

Neo wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 12:24, Torsten Reuss wrote:
>  
>
> > Neo wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > 	anybody know of a way to switch workspaces in gnome/
> > > any windowmanager? (on Debian of course ;-) )
> > >
> > >      
> > The enlightenment window manager comes with a utility called eesh whish 
> > is used to send commands to the window manager via IPC. So doing a eesh 
> > -e "goto_desktop 0" switches to the first desktop, etc.
> >
> >    
>
>
> Sorry,
>
> 	doesn't work, may due to metacity2.4/gnome2.2 (sid),  I  renamed
> my workspaces to "1", "2" etc. :
>
> user@local:/home/user >eesh -e "goto_desktop 2"
> X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
>  Major opcode of failed request:  2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes)
>  Resource id in failed request:  0x0
>  Serial number of failed request:  9
>  Current serial number in output stream:  11
> user@local:/home/user >
>
>  
Well, I said "the enlightenment window manager". If you are running 
metacity, you are not running enlightenment. eesh is not able to talk to 
other window managers than e.