launch a frame on a specified virtual desktop

launch a frame on a specified virtual desktop

[Jean Daniel Browne]

Hello all,

I am working on a project made of four files. Every times I start my
computer I will lauch a terminal on the first virtual desktop and then
I will launch emacs on virtual desktop #2 and open three others frame
that I will move to virtual desktop #3, #4 and #5.

Being one of the laziest guy in the newsgroup, I would like to
-switch on the computer
-wait 30 secondes
-type in login and password, 
-wait another 30 seconds and voila : each files in his frame on his
own virtual desktop...

I've tried to google on "virtual desktop" and "frame" but without much
success. I came accross the notions of gnuclient, emacs server. Do you
think they could be related to my problem ?

Thank you for your help,

JD

Re: launch a frame on a specified virtual desktop

[Kai Großjohann]

jean-daniel.browne@parexel.com (Jean Daniel Browne) writes:

> I am working on a project made of four files. Every times I start my
> computer I will lauch a terminal on the first virtual desktop and then
> I will launch emacs on virtual desktop #2 and open three others frame
> that I will move to virtual desktop #3, #4 and #5.

It depends on the window manager (desktop environment) how this
works.  KDE, for example, has a directory ~/.kde/Autostart where you
can put programs that will be run, well, on startup.  That way, you
can start the terminal and Emacs.  See the kstart program for making
sure that a certain window always lands on a certain desktop.  From
your ~/.emacs file, you can execute the make-frame function.  This
will not move the new frames to different desktops, though.  So my
suggestion is that you run kstart from your .emacs file with a dummy
command in the background, and then you execute the make-frame
function.  Then kstart will pick up the new window, thinking it
started the program itself.  Then kstart will move the window to a
new desktop.

Another possibility would be to give the frames different names and
to configure your window manager to put windows with certain names
onto certain desktops.

But like I said, it all depends on the window manager you use.
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