[Gllug] Starting application on specific desktop (KDE)

[Xander D Harkness]

Grzegorz Jaskiewicz wrote:

>On Friday 16 January 2004 11:01, Wulf Forrester-Barker wrote:
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>>Every morning I log into my main machine at work and run a script I
>>wrote called 'goodmorning', which fires up a selection of applications
>>(Konsole, Firebird and GKrellM). I've got four desktops in my KDE setup
>>and the applications all pop up on the one I am looking at (#1).
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[snip]

>KDE supports (gnome too afair) Xfree feature called 'sessions', which 
>remembers what and where was fired (on which desktop). Some apps will even 
>remember more details (i.p. konsole). Just logout properly when closing KDE, 
>and next time you start it, it should bring back 'session'. You might need to 
>turn something on in kcontrol for that, but afair it does it by default.
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I agree that session management in kde works very well.

You might also have a look at the back issues of Linux Journal or Linux 
Magazine.  There was an article looking at the CLI interface to KDE 
which allows a high degree of scripting.

Kind regards
Xander
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