Ming Zhao wrote: > Thank your reply. > > To clarify my problem: > > I'm writing a program with Tcl/Tk, how can I make a toplevel window > appear in a given desktop? > > Or is there a resource string I can pass to xterm's -xrm option to make > xterm start up in the given desktop? > > Thanks. > Ming > I can't see it happening. You want a child process to control a parent process, and I don't think it will be possible. Out of curiosity, why can't your tcl/tk program call "kstart yadda yadda yadda" instead of "xterm"? Dave ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.