On Tuesday 25 May 2021 02:19:08 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Anno domini 2021 Tue, 25 May 03:55:57 -0500 > > J Leslie Turriff scripsit: > > Is there a way, while starting a program, to tell it which desktop to > > appear on (before it opens its window)? > > I looked at the various Window-specific settings (right-click the > > mini-icon in the menu bar), and there's lots of things that can be set > > there, but not the desktop. I also looked at kdcop for several kinds of > > windows, but if there's something in there, I can't recognize it. > > hope I get the translation right: > > window menu /miniicon -> extended -> special settings for this window (or > program) -> check "workspace" and select the one you want it to go. > > Nik > At the risk of repeating Nik, here is what I've been doing since KDE3: #1 (quickie fix) Right-click at the top bar of any open application dialogue; then choose <To Desktop> to shift the application to whatever desktop you want. This choice will not persist, but gets the item moved temporarily to Desktop X. #2 (permanent) Right-click at top bar of application, then choose <Advanced> / <Special Window Settings>. A new dialogue window will appear. Choose <Geometry>, then click <Desktop>, choose whatever desktop you want. Just to the left of your desktop choices is a menu item which ought to show the default setting of <Do Not Affect>; change this to <Force>, or whatever best suits your needs. (Also, <Remember>, <Apply Intially>, etc., but mostly <Force> is best if you want an application always to open in its own special window.) For example, all my browsers open in Window 4; Kmail is always in Window 3, KPDF in Window 9, Konqueror in Window 12, all shells/terminals/consoles in Window 11, and so on ... which keeps things better organized in my own little world, rather than just letting everything flop open in whatever window I happen to be. It's pretty annoying if I have 20 docs open, all of the same type, but spread across several different windows and mixed with other kinds of windows. #3 (a little tip) For some applications, continue on to choose <Advanced> / <Special Window Settings> / <Workarounds>. Here you may find the choices under <Focus stealing prevention> to be useful. Sometimes an application hogs resources, you'll wonder why you can't get things to happen, as you sit there and wait for a minute or two. By clicking <High> or even <Extreme>, you will find that some of these small annoyances cease to bother you. I hope this is of some help to yourself and others. (I've been doing it like this since 2006 or so.) It's one of those features that seem to be missing in many other DEs, or if the feature exists, it doesn't work so well as in TDE. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
