Open Apps on a defined Desktop

Oliver Welter mail at oliwel.de
Thu May 22 14:03:49 BST 2003


Hi David,

THX it works

Oli


David Goodenough wrote:
> On Thursday 22 May 2003 12:03, you wrote:
> 
>>Hi Folks,
>>
>>Anyone here who can tell me, if it is (and how..) possible to open an
>>application on a defined Desktop??
>>
>>Im running KDE 3.1 with 6 virtual Desktops and I want to have Mail on
>>Desktop 5, WWW on Desk 6 and so on....
>>So I want my Browser to open on Desk 5 when click to the Icon, even if
>>Im on Desk X....
> 
> 
> I use a script like this:-
> 
> f#!/bin/sh
> set -e
> 
> kcpuload&
> kstart --desktop 5 konqueror http://linuxtoday.com
> kstart --desktop 8 knode
> kstart --desktop 7 kmail
> kstart --desktop 6 /home/david/bin/notes
> 
> # should be wait for dcop to be available?
> dcop kmail KMailIface checkMail
> 
> <<<<
> but it does not quite work.  For some reason konqueror only very rarely
> starts on desktop 5, it normally starts on the same desktop as I ran the
> script from.  All other apps work well, but on neither kde 2.2 or 3.1
> does konqueror normally honour the desktop number.
> 
> Hope this helps (and that one day konqueror will behave)
> 
> David
> 
> 
>>Any Ideas
>>
>>Oli
>>
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