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Skaperen

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From: right by Jesus, our Saviour

Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 819

how to switch workspaces?

how can i programmatically switch workspace in a script?  i want to initialize my working setup by launching a terminal in each of 4 different workspaces.

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: how to switch workspaces?

wmctrl -s <WORKSPACE>

...workspace numbering starts at 0.

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Skaperen

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From: right by Jesus, our Saviour

Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 819

Re: how to switch workspaces?

thanks!  i was using wmctrl -o x,y which was not working.  now i see in the man page that a window manager may ignore the -o request.

Skaperen

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From: right by Jesus, our Saviour

Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 819

Re: how to switch workspaces?

i have replicated my multi-terminal auto-startup from Unity to Xfce.  when the first terminal starts it starts up 6 more terminals in other workspaces for that user, 1 or 2 terminals per workspace.  this currently works by xfce >> terminal >> bash >> .bashrc >> .bashrc9 where the code in .bashrc9 determines it it the only bash process by that user under a terminal.  if so, then it runs a sequence of steps where each switches to a workspace, starts an instance of xfce4-terminal, a sleeps for brief period to give xfce4-terminal time to open the window.  it is my intent to redesign this so it is triggered by login rather than starting the first terminal.