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ema_ba

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Friday, March 2nd 2007, 4:50pm

autostart an application on a specific desktop

Hello!
I am using multiple KDE desktops and have setup three applications (firefox, Kmail and shell) to start automatically when I log in.

I would like to specify at which desktop each application should be run, e.g. firefox on Desktop 1, Kmail on Desktop 2, etc., so that I do not have manually to arrange them after startup (that is what Iam currently doing ;(. Is this possible to do? I mean is there some switch that I can specify in autostart file (like --desktop 1' or similar ), so that the application starts each time on the specified desktop?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Ema

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Friday, March 2nd 2007, 7:06pm

you can do that with kstart

See kstart --help for the syntaxis
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Saturday, March 3rd 2007, 7:58pm

RE: autostart an application on a specific desktop

Maybe better would be to define Window rules: right click a title bar, Configure Window Behavior -> Window Specific Settings. There you can assign certain properties to certain windows, like their initial desktop number.
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Monday, March 5th 2007, 8:13am

RE: autostart an application on a specific desktop

Hello,
I have just tried out kstart and it worked :)

Just for the future reference:

To autostart a command on all desktops
kstart --desktop alldesktops command

To autostart a command on a single desktop (e.g. 1)
kstart --desktop 1 command

Thanks everybody for your help!
Ema

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Tuesday, March 6th 2007, 7:16pm

RE: autostart an application on a specific desktop

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Originally posted by ema_ba
Hello,
I have just tried out kstart and it worked :)

Just for the future reference:

To autostart a command on all desktops
kstart --desktop alldesktops command

To autostart a command on a single desktop (e.g. 1)
kstart --desktop 1 command

Thanks everybody for your help!
Ema


Where do you put these lines to have the startups automated? I put a link to scripts I wrote up in /.kde/autostart and it partially worked. The script to start firefox on desktop 6 worked, but the focus changed to it (and that desktop) even though I did not include --activate. Following that, the script to open thunderbird on desktop 2 opened t-bird, but on desktop 6 over the top of firefox. (also no --activate option)

Where does one add automated kstart commands normally? The "advanced window behavior" page of the manual only talked about command line syntax.
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Sunday, March 11th 2007, 8:26am

RE: autostart an application on a specific desktop

Hi,
I have put in the commands in my 'autostart' file (the same you are
using) and I get all the windows open on specified desktops.
I do not use option --activate or any other option apart --desktop . Unfortunately, I cannot advise much more as I am newby with KDE myself. Anybody else knows more?
Good luck,
Ema