xfstart mentioned in the wish list...

[Mark Houlder]

you could try 'devilspie', it does a similar thing in daemon form

Don Christensen wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 
>> David Snyder wrote:
>>
>>> Browsing the xfce website, I took a look at the 'Wish List'.  One 
>>> item was mentioned which caught my attention -- the "xfstart" request 
>>> in the "new modules" section.  The reason this caught my attention is 
>>> because I've wanted to automate the startup of applications on my 
>>> Xfce desktop.  For example, start firefox on desktops 2,3, and 4, 
>>> xmms on desktop 4, etc.  The info. about setting application startup 
>>> in the 'Desktop/Autostart' file is useful, however, the applications 
>>> are dumped on the currently viewed desktop -- and I've got to 
>>> manually move them around (a rather tedious task).  I thought about 
>>> poking around the Xfce code to see about adding the functionality to 
>>> start up applications on a specified desktop.  However, it looks like 
>>> someone's already turned their attention to this.  So, *is* there a 
>>> xfstart app?  Thanx.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've started work on this some time ago, but delayed it to work on 
>> more important tasks first. I could finish it for 4.2, tho I'm still 
>> unsure if this is of any use. The case you describe should be 
>> perfectly handled by session management (the session manager will 
>> restart the app in its previous state and the window manager will 
>> place the window on the correct workspace). Sadly, both apps mentioned 
>> above (xmms and mozilla) are broken in terms of session management and 
>> I don't see any good chance that any of them will be fixed in the near 
>> future.
> 
> 
> And given the existence of multitudes of other similarly "broken" apps,
> this argues for the usefulness of a simple app to say "start app A on
> desktop X".  Such an app would be useful in autostart scripts.
> 
> -Don
> 

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