Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!montnaro From: montnaro@spyder.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: Look and Feel? Or just Look? Message-ID: Date: 18 Feb 90 22:32:07 GMT References: <9002180943.AA17778@brillig.UMD.EDU> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) Followup-To: comp.windows.misc Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development, Schenectady, NY Lines: 30 In-reply-to: don@CS.UMD.EDU's message of 18 Feb 90 09:43:53 GMT 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). -- Skip (montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com)