[ale] launching apps to specific desktops?

[Jim Philips]

On Thursday 06 January 2005 08:55 pm, Jay Loden wrote:
> I (finally) helped my best friend get off Windows and onto Linux.  He's big
> into having stuff launch at startup on his machine, and I've never done
> this on Linux.  We sorted out how to use the ~/.kde/Autostart folder to
> launch a script that does what he wants, except for one detail.  He would
> like to launch app "foo" onto Desktop 1 and app "bar" onto Desktop 2, for
> example.
>
> Does anyone know how (if) this can be accomplished from a script?  Is this
> something that can be set, like DISPLAY ?
>
> It's a Mandrake 10 system, if that makes any difference (you never know).

We just went through this on the KDE mailing list. You don't need the 
Autostart folder or a script. Recent versions of KDE have session management. 
If you open Control Center and go to KDE Components, you will find a page for 
Session Management. There is an option there to restore a manually saved 
session on login. This means that all apps you had open when you last saved 
your session will reappear right where they were the next time you log in. It 
remembers desktop, placement, size, everything.