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Re: gnome: switch workspaces via command line?



On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 20:33 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 18:01 -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote:
> > 
> >>Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 16:11 -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote:
> >>>
[snip]
> >>Yes.  I'm aware of that also.  Still wanting a command-line tool.
> > 
> > 
> > "<shift><ctrl><alt><LftArr>" is 4 keystrokes.
> > 
> > "gnome-switching-tool --switch-to-left-workspace\n" is 49 keystrokes.
> > 
> > Me, I'll stick with the keyboard shortcuts.
> > 
> 
> But a shortcut cannot be built into a shell script or C program.

Ok, I'll bite: why do you want to script the ability to switch
workspaces?

libmetacity-dev probably has the API to do what you want, if you
know C.

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