Re: metacity: start a program on a given workspace

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:37:56AM +0000, gabor wrote:
> 
> is there a way to start a program on a given workspace?
> 
> because sometimes i switch to an empty workspace, hit alt-f2, 
> start a program, but because it takes a long time to start, 
> i switch to a different workspace and do something...
> 
> but then the app starts in the current workspace, and i 
> have to move it.
> 

With GNOME 2.1.4 or later, if you click a launcher on workspace 3,
then switch to workspace 1, the app will come up on workspace 3.  This
is true only for launchers that have startup notification support,
e.g. gnome-terminal right now, but should be most gtk2 apps by the
time we release.

The run dialog could be pretty easily extended to also support this.

Havoc