Launch application on second Display

Trevor tpankonien at gmail.com
Fri Jul 6 18:59:00 UTC 2007


Andrew Jarrett wrote:
> On 7/6/07, D. Michael McIntyre <michael.mcintyre at rosegardenmusic.com> wrote:
>   
>> I don't have any kind of similar setup, but I'd start playing with kstart to
>> see if anything might do the trick.  I don't know how a multi-head setup
>> works at all, so this might be a completely useless suggestion.  I only
>> mention it because I figure kstart might be obscure enough that you might not
>> have stumbled across it, and if it's the magic ticket, then jubilation for
>> you.
>>     
>
> < huge snip>
>   
>>   --desktop <number>        Desktop on which to make the window appear
>>     
> < huge snip>
>
> That definately looks like your ticket. I guess you would only need:
> kstart --desktop 2(?) mythtv(?)
>
> Of course, we are assuming that you only want to launch MythTV on the
> second display.  You could probably edit the shortcut for MythTV to
> use this command when it is launched.  If you want something more
> complex than this (like every application opening on second display)
> than I am not sure how to configure it.
>
> Andrew
>
>   
You are correct in assuming that I only want MythTV on the other display 
(TV), while everything else is still launch to my main 
display(monitor).  I will post the results once I get out of work and 
get a chance to test some of the ideas you all have given me.

Trevor




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