kstart --desktop not working correctly?
Charles R. Dennett
dennett at rochester.rr.com
Mon Jan 3 22:21:41 UTC 2005
Hi,
I've been running RedHat9 for coming up on two years. This past weekend
I upgraded my system to FC3. The upgrade went well. After the upgrade
I ran up2date and made sure I had the latest.
Under RH9 I had a script in ~/.kde/Autostart I used to start up various
windows on certain desktops. It looked something like this:
#!/bin/bash
kstart --desktop 1 konsole -geometry 661x921-0+0 -profile MainKonsole
kstart --desktop 2 konsole -geometry 1267x449+0+0 -profile BoincKonsole
kstart --desktop 3 thunderbird
kstart --desktop 4 firefox
Pretty simple. Well, under FC3 it works...sort of. All four windows
start but it's a crap shoot as to which desktop each one will open in.
I tried adding "sleep 5" before each kstart command and it helped some,
but sometimes windows will open in a random desktop. All this worked
fine under RH9. Never had a problem with it.
I've searched the archives of this list and googled for a report of a
similar problem but have come up empty so far. So, before I went too
much further, I figured I'd drop a note here just in case someone else
knew about this.
Perhaps the ~/.kde/Autostart is not the way to do this now. Perhaps
kstart has been replaced with something else (kstart --help still shows
my syntax to be correct.)
Let me know if you need more info - versions of stuff or whatever. If
I've missed something in my searches, just point me in the right direction.
Thanks for any help.
Charlie
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