<reg-sawfish <at> neltus.org> writes: > Can someone tell me how to make program windows open in a specified > desktop? I'm using x.org and sawfish only, and want to build a > customized startup script that opens several xterms and firefox but I > can't find a way to specify a workspace to open in.
What I did in some simple script was to call sawfish-client -e '(set-screen-viewport 0 1)' and then start up the applications I wanted there, then switch back with a similar incantation. > I guess it's more than a simple parameter, like first switching the > workspace and then open the window? But it doesn't seems like a very > good solution because you don't even know how long to want for the > window to open in most cases. If sleeping "long enough" is intolerable, maybe you can get xtoolwait to work. I dropped it at some point but I can't remember why; probably it was missing from some distro I happened to be using temporarily and then I let it go in order to not have to run different versions of the scripts depending on whether it was available or not. Sorry for the late reply; hope this still might help somebody, /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not.
