on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:40:27PM -0700, Carl Johnson (carlj@peak.org) wrote:
> Duncan Watson <deamonrift@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 06:36:35PM +0200, Martin W?rtele wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 08:48:33AM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > > My question is regarding the 'debian' way to start various
> > > > applications on particular workspaces. I would like to start a
> > > > few applications such as a number of xterms, a mail client, and
> > > > my gqmpeg on login. I currently use
> > > > ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart to start a number of
> > > > applets and a few deamons such as fetchmail, remind, etc. If I
> > > > could figure out how to specify the workspace I would start a
> > > > quartet of xterms, etc as well.
>
> ...snip...
>
> > You get the idea. I tend to use a lot of xterm, eterms, etc. They are
> > started all the time. I don't want to pin them to a particular workspace
> > forever.
>
> Have you tried just setting things up the way you want them and then
> select the menu item WorkSpace->Save_Session. I have about a dozen
> things I start that way, including several xterms, and they all start
> in the proper workspaces. It seemed like Gnome might have caused
> problems with that, but I didn't find that Gnome provided enough more
> than just WindowMaker to make it worth while.
Note that 'Save Session' creates a file somewhere (under GNUstep) that
should give you the syntax for starting apps in specified workspaces.
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