Start a program in a special Screen
Jasper Huijsmans
jasper at xfce.org
Thu Jan 11 19:28:08 CET 2007
Nick Schermer wrote:
> 2007/1/10, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org>:
>
>> I just checked, when workspace is set in SN, it's placed on the
>> specified workspace (xfwm4 takes care of this).
>>
>
> And does this also work for apps like the gimp (multiple windows)?
>
> But if this doesn't work for applications that don't honor the sn
> specs, it will be confusing for most of the users (we will most likely
> receive quite a lot of bug reports 'app x is not started on the right
> workspace'). If so, I'm not a big fan for this kinda code in the
> launcher.
>
It could be a 'sub-option' of the startup notification option.
On the other hand, if the application supports startup notification
(s19n? ;), you can launch it from the screen you want it to appear on.
That may be enough of an alternative, I don't know.
Jasper
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