On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:23:07 -0600 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thomas Taylor wrote: > > Hi folks; > > I have two programs set up to run at startup (Configure Desktop> Startup& > > Shutdown> Autostart> Add Program). They are claws-mail and firefox. They > > both come up in the last active session virtual desktop (I'm using 6). > > > > Is there a way to specify which virtual desktop they start in? Haven't > > found any documentation about that. > > > > Thanks, Tom > > > > The way I do this is to save the session to save what starts up. I guess > your way will work too. > > As for what desktops they will be on, I use Window Settings. Right click on > the title bar of what you want to set up, Firefox for example, and highlight > Advanced then Special Window Settings. In the winodw that pops up, select > the Size and Position tab. The Desktop can then be set there. You may want > to look at other settings in there too. There are a lot of things that can > be set there. Also, some can be set to force which means it will not change > even if you try and several other settings. It took me several tries to get > mine set right but once you get it set correctly, it seems to hold that > throughout updates. > > If something acts weird, go to the first tab, Window Matching, and click the > Detect Window Properties button, then click the title bar of the window you > want to set. You may have to experiment with the other settings too. > Sometimes when you have a program that has more than one window or the title > bar changes, then you have to test other settings to get it to stick. > > Hope that helps. This is for KDE 4.7.4 and I use Gentoo. It should be about > the same but different from KDE3 for sure. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > Thank you all for the responses. I chose to use Dale's as it seemed to best match my needs. Tom -- Tom Taylor - retired penguin openSUSE 11.4 x86_64 openSUSE 12.1 KDE 4.6.00, FF 4.0 KDE 4.7.2, FF 7.0 claws-mail 3.7.9 registered linux user 263467 linxt-At-comcast-DoT-net ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
