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Sublime + Dexpot or other virtual desktops

#1

hi guys,
I use sublime a lot for latex compiling for different document\projects. While I make use of project switching, I thought it would be a lot easier to have each project of Sublime open on a different virtual desktop (dexpot), and to switch across the different virtual desktops instead.

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get sublime to cooperate because each instance of sublime doesn’t seem to want to live independently inside each virtual desktop. Often, when I am compiling in one virtual desktop, it actually affects the sublime in another virtual desktop.

Has anyone managed to get this sort of workflow working, or if not, suggest some alternative approaches? I have searched prior threads and this has come up before but have not seen a great solution mentioned.

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#2

I use dexpot and sublime and have never had an issue. What do you mean by compiling?
What dexpot is doing is setting the window to invisible. It is exactly the same as having multiple copies of sublime open together without dexpot running.
Perhaps when you run sublime pass it the command line parameter --new-window.

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#3

hey there - am glad that it’s working but here’s my dilemma (my prior description is a bit off since it was a while since I tried to do this)

in virtual desktop 1, I begin sublime. all good - it exists

when I switch to desktop 2, I hit the sublime button, but nothing happens.

I think your suffix --new-window is meant to solve this?

do I add this
“C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe” --new-window

into target location under properties?

thanks!

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