XFce4: Making apps default to a certain workspace

FRiO · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Posts: 45

Right,
I'll start off with the usual asskissing. In this case, however, it's not just flattery - Xfce4 is a very, very nice environment. I've moved to it from fluxbox... at least, until Fluxbox 1.0 is released.
Anyway, I've made my Desktop/Autostart folder, and have shoved a few bash scripts in there, and all is well. Apart from one thing. You see, I'm spawning around 6 different apps on startup, and if I started them manually, I'd shove them across various workspaces. As it is, I'm rightclicking each and sending it to it's workspace, however, I'd like to know if there's an automated way of doing this, similar to in Flux 0.9.6 (the feature has been there since 0.9.4). I thought it might be something I could set in .Xdefaults, however I'm not sure.

Any help on this'd be much appreciated, and I've created an identical thread at the XFce4 forums .

Cheers,
FRiO

andersbk · n00b Joined: 16 Aug 2003 Posts: 35

I'm replying here (and not the xfce4 forums, as I don't have the will to create an account over there...yet.)

Anyway, I too was wondering why .Xdefaults did nothing in xfce4.

The answer is:

Look at /usr/bin/startxfce4

The script calls /etc/xfce4/xinitrc

Looking at this xinitrc and comparing it to the generic XFree version, you quickly notice that they don't "xrdb" the .Xdefaults file! Why? I don't know. Perhaps an xfce4 developer can answer.

Anyway following is the head of my "edited" /etc/xfce4/xinitrc file to make .Xdefaults work:

tsuru

I had this problem too... it's been a while but I think I found the answer in the man page somewhere. Anyhow the only thing I had to do was to name .Xdefaults as such:

Jimboberella · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 2:35 am Post subject:

xfce4-session seems to remember workspaces for session aware apps.

It's maksed in portage, as its alpha code nut it works quite well here.