starting e.g. evince from the command line on a different workspace?

[Mike Massonnet]

Hi Jönne,

2010/10/21 Jönne Speck <jspeck at runbox.com>:
> Dear all,
>
> Is there a way to do the following:
> On workspace 1 in my command line, I start evince (or some other GUI-application) but let its window open on a different workspace, say 2? Is that done by some --geometry value?
>
> Is this a question to be asked at the *XFCE* mailinglist in the first place, or rather at xorg? Thanks anyway!

That's actually a general question. You can try devilspie[1], it will
do the operation perfectly.

[1] http://live.gnome.org/DevilsPie

If you want to apply this behavior only for some instance of evince,
you can use the --class parameter (e.g. evince
--class=EvinceWorkspace2) and set a rule for devilspie to match the
window_class EvinceWorkspace2. Have a little fun with devilspie to
discover its possibilities :)

But here is a small devilspie snippet, you can call Evince.ds:

(if
 (is (window_class) "EvinceWorkspace2")
 (set_workspace 2)
)

> Best
> Jönne

Cheers
-- 
Mike