How to specify workspace when starting a program?

[Olivier Fourdan]

Chris,

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 23:09 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> But rxvt for example *does* have command line options to do what I
> want but xfce doesn't appear to understand them - or I don't know what
> I need to set to get xfce to understand what I want.

There is nothing standard in that (the command line option you mention
in rxvt was first introduced by fvwm, and rxvt is written by the same
author, that's it)

The only way to do what you want is to use EWMH *or* startup
notification, both being standards from the freedesktop.org.

HTH
Olivier.