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KitchM

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Registered: 2009-08-15

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Specify Workspace For Program Autostart

In the Settings>Settings Manager>Session and Startup>Application Autostart the user can add a program and then tell it to start up on login.  However, how does the user tell it which workspace to open it into?

Thanks.

ToZ

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Re: Specify Workspace For Program Autostart

No, that feature doesn't exist within Xfce. You'll need to use a tool like devilspie (or devlispie2) to get this functionality.

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KitchM

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Re: Specify Workspace For Program Autostart

Thank you.  I have installed Devilspie2 and now I just have to figure out how to use.

KitchM

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Re: Specify Workspace For Program Autostart

I'm getting the hang of it my looking at many web sites and watching a fairly good video.  I will clarify and get back here regarding what I find.

ToZ

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Re: Specify Workspace For Program Autostart

Also do a search on the word 'devilspie' and my username on these forums - I've answered quite a few questions about devilspie. Perhaps something in there might be helpful. For example, this worked with the original devilspie - I've never really used devilspie2, but I understand it now uses lua scripts.

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KitchM

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Re: Specify Workspace For Program Autostart

As far as I've been able to figure out, the original devilspie is no longer available or supported, and the web page is gone.

ToZ

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Re: Specify Workspace For Program Autostart

I guess it depends on the distro you are using - its still in the Arch repositories. But devilspie2 is its successor.

With devilspie2, it looks like the command script to move firefox to workspace 2 on start would be:

-- Make firefox always start on workspace 2.
if (get_application_name()=="firefox") then
   set_window_workspace(2);
end

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KitchM

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Re: Specify Workspace For Program Autostart

Turns out that Andreas Rönnquist (gusnan), is no longer the maintainer of Devilspie2.  One must use the mailing list at devilspie2-discuss@nongnu.org, or the various web pages on the subject (such as https://github.com/dsalt/devilspie2).