[lug] Making a class of windows sticky in KDE

Hugh Brown hugh at math.byu.edu
Mon Jun 23 21:16:13 MDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 17:08, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Friday 06 June 2003 01:34 pm, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> 
> > I know how to make any given window sticky so that it comes with me as I
> > move around.  What I don't know how to do is make *any* gaim window that
> > may ever appear be sticky.
> >
> > I remember from the olden days that you could do such things with fvwm
> > by typing the right incantation into a config file.  Anyone know if it
> > can be done in KDE?  Is the kwin config file documented anywhere?  I
> > couldn't find anything in a google search.
> 
> Hah.  This turns out to be easy, though it took me a long time to find it.
> 
> You right click on the title bar, get a menu, and select "Store window 
> settings".  Assuming that it was already sticky, it will be sticky the 
> next time.  Woo hoo!
> 
> Michael


This is one of the reasons that I recently switched to KDE from Gnome. 
I also switched so that I could flip workspaces by going over the "edge"
with the mouse.

Hugh


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