On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Franz <169...@gmail.com> wrote: > I installed V3.2 and started to play with the XFCE environment (very > nice, many thanks to developers) > > It seems that if you open many VMs and many applications they are not > grouped per VMs as with KDE, but are all randomly mixed together, so the > panel is messy. > > Found that the 4 workplaces on the panel can help to put some order > manually dedicating a worplace to each VM. That is good! > > I know how to start VM and applications from dom0 and have a script that > does that. But is it possible to modify the script to tell for example that > firefox of work VM should go into worplace 3 ? > > Of course the purpose of all that is to automate the starting of Qubes > putting the more used applications each in its proper worplace. > > But of course there may be other way of which I am unaware to put some > order on the panel. > > I found a solution with wmctrl -s <n> where n is the number of the workplace. wmctrl is default installed in dom0:
qvm-start personal sleep 3 wmctrl -s 1 qvm-run personal nautilus qvm-run personal firefox qvm-start work sleep 3 wmctrl -s 2 qvm-run work nautilus qvm-run work firefox etc. If you put this in a script it will separate VMs each in its workplace with a nice order. Best Fran -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CAPzH-qBgk-UayCF%3DW%2Bj7EGAZDHKBYvrwDm8p%3Do91bSCpEts%3DGg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
