Move running applications to another workspace in HP CDE

[Lilischkis]

Hi,

I'am searching for a solution to move started applications to another workspace in CDE by scripting or a little C program.

I have seen other mechanisms during program start with -xrm or the switch.c program, but I need a move solution.

Thanks....

[John Bolene]

applications are started by the shell

you could background the application after it was started or while you are starting it, but there is not any way to move a child between parent processes

[Mike Stroyan · Accepted solution]

You can use the DtWsmSetWorkspacesOccupied() function from /usr/dt/lib/libDtSvc.sl or the DtWsmSetWorkspacesOccupied builtin of dtksh.
The attached script shows a dtksh example that moves the current terminal window to a list of workspaces. It is takes workspace numbers to occupy like "dtksh_set_workspace 0", or "dtksh_set_workspace 1 3". The script uses $WINDOWID, which is set by terminal emulators like dtterm. If you want to affect some particular window you will need some way to find its window id. Perhaps you know it has a unique name. You could pick it out with "xlsclients -l".

[Lilischkis]

Thank you for the example script.
It is functioning fine on programs supporting xrm features like dtterm -xrm "....".

But when I want to use xprop or xlsclients -l to get the WINDOWID from programs, like xv or veetest there is no ID listed. How can I get the WINDOWID from programs like xv?

[Alex Glennie]

could you try xwininfo

xwininfo: Window id: 0x10400239 "xv 3.10a "