Maxim Shkurygin wrote: > Hello mhvluggers, > > I have a pretty common routine that I preform every time I start up my > laptop, which goes generally like this: > > 1. Launch three termnals, and arrange them to fill my Desktop 1 > 2. Go to Desktop 2 and start up Pidgin, and XChat and arrange them > 3. Go to Desktop 3 and start up Firefox + whatever else I need at the > moment. > > Since these tasks are routine and monotonous I imagined there must be a way > for me automate it with a shell script. However after googling for a while I > couldn't find a way to do it. So, my question is - is there a console > program that you know of that lets me start a specific X app on a specific > desktop, at a specific position with specific dimensions?
Placement and size policy can be done easily with devil's pie (http://live.gnome.org/DevilsPie). -Sean -- __________________________________________________________________ Sean Dague Mid-Hudson Valley sean at dague dot net Linux Users Group http://dague.net http://mhvlug.org There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down. __________________________________________________________________
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