Thanks for the help. I made the changes, recompiled the program and as expected, the Window Name is now 'Fl_TeacherTool'. However, I still did not achieve getting teachertool to start in any workspace but the first one. In researching the problem further, it appears that there is bug report that the 'winoptions file' does not get parsed in icewm 1.3 and may have stopped working after <a href="http://1.2.30.">1.2.30.</a> We are using 1.2.36 having upgraded to it from 1.2.27 last month. I don't think I'll go back but wait to see if the bug report get resolved. <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Robert Arkiletian <<a href="mailto:robark@gmail.com">robark@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">2008/11/17 Charles M Hale <<a href="mailto:chuck@qwk2lrn.net">chuck@qwk2lrn.net</a>>: <div class="Ih2E3d">> We are using Fl_TeacherTool with the ICEWM window's manager and we are > trying to startup Fl_TeacherTool in a workspace other than the primary > workspace. > ICEWM has a very good facility for doing this; its the 'winoptions' file in > the .icewm subdirectory. > Its seems that our directive of <WindowName>.workspace: <workspace number> > is being iignored. > We have Fl_TeacherTool starting up in workspace 1. We would like it to > startup in workspace 2 or 3. > We noted that when Fl_TeacherTool starts, we has 'Fl_Teachertool @ <server > hostname>' as the identifying text in the window, we/ve use all possible > combinations for our <WindowName> and Fl_TeacherTool continues to startup in > the first workspace. </div>I think I figured it out. At least I hope I did. I have a fix. I hope. This is an interesting problem. Have a look at the documentation for icewm <a href="http://www.icewm.org/manual/icewm-14.html#winoptions" target="_blank">http://www.icewm.org/manual/icewm-14.html#winoptions</a> "It's possible that an application's class and/or name contains the dot character (".") used by IceWM to separate class, name and role values. To lock it, precede it with the backslash character. In the following example, we suppose an application's window has the.class as its class value and <a href="http://the.name" target="_blank">the.name</a> as its name value : the\.class.the\.name.option: argument" The problem arises because my program grabs the hostame (which usually has a "." in it and tacks that onto the window name". So the "." is not escaped. The only solution I have is to get rid of the @hostame part of the window name in my code. So search for these two lines in fl_teachertool.cxx (it's in the main function) host=getstdout("echo $HOSTNAME","Error: Could not get Hostname"); host.insert(0, "Fl_TeacherTool @ "); and just replace it with host="Fl_TeacherTool"; Hopefully that will solve the problem. <div class="Ih2E3d"> > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get Fl_TeacherTool to start in a > workspace other than the first one. > > </div>> _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> > For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org" target="_blank">http://www.k12os.org</a>> > -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada Fl_TeacherTool <a href="http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/" target="_blank">http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/</a> C++ GUI tutorial <a href="http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/" target="_blank">http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/</a> _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org" target="_blank">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div>