Re: [i3] Starting apps on designated workspace only on i3 startup

  • From: James Robertson <j@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Discussions/Questions about the i3 window manager" <i3-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:17:05 +1000

For me it works for urxvt but not for Iceweasel (ver 10.0.3) i. e. after
i3-msg workspace 6 ; i3-msg exec iceweasel ; i3-msg workspace 2
iceweasel appears on workspace 2.

Sorry for jumping in the middle of topic but I would be really interested
to find out how to force Iceweasel to behave.

What if you try and get urxvt to load on different desktops?

I presume using that exec line Michael asked me to run is how you
identify if the app uses startupnotify properly?

I had the same behaviour as you for Iceweasel so tried gimp which
seems to use startupnotify properly and this works as expected,
however Gimp would only finish loading once I moved to the desktop it
was on. This might be to do with the exec line though and will wait
and see what Michael has to say.

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