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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