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don@CS.UMD.EDU (Don Hopkins) writes:

   barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes:
   >	Is there any method used to group related windows?

   Open Look allows you to select multiple windows and move them. It does
   not have any provision for keeping then in a group after they are
   deselected, though. Also, you can't do many other things to a group of
   selected windows, like close them to icons, or destroy them. I can't
   think of any reason why not, even though I want to do things like that
   pretty often.

Xrooms may provide some of the extra functionality you desire. I've only
played around with it a bit, but it allows you to group related windows
together into "rooms". Opening a room closes the windows associated with the
current room to icons and opens the icons associated with the new room. Some
windows (e.g., console xterm or emacs session) can be marked as always open.
I believe a window can be in more than one room.

One minor functional problem with xrooms is that if a window is not open in
the current room, it is displayed as an icon. Individual window icons become
pretty useless with (semi-)strict adherence to the room paradigm. (The
xrooms window has a little button for each user-defined room.) You can get
by most of this problem by stacking all icons together and under the xrooms
window (which is by default always open).



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Skip (montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com)