xfce4 - In lieue of a session manager

[Jack Coates]

On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 14:54, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 28 Jun 2003 22:02:16 +0200
> Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hey, that tool is amazing :)
> > 
> > /me wants the same!
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Olivier.
> > 
> > On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 21:58, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > > On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 at 12:46 (-0600), Collins Richey wrote:
> > > > Is there any way to script starting up applications on a specific
> > > > desktop?
> > > 
> > > kstart --window xterm --desktop 4 xterm
> > > 
> > > (kstart comes with KDE. See kstart --help.)
> > > 
> >
> 
> Yeah!  Just throw away the k-crap and qt-crap, and this little puppy
> would be a useful critter!

Seriously, the above command took fifteen seconds of disk churn under
XFce3 :-)

That said, some nice stuff comes with the KDE environment which doesn't
need the whole ball of wax -- artsd for instance is now my default sound
system under XFce as well.
-- 
Jack Coates
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