[ubuntu-za] Assigning an application to a workspace

[David Rubin]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:

> For some reason that I don't understand, Thunderbird does not
> automatically start at start-up even though I have used Session
> preferences to get my desktop to start as I would like it.
>
> So I have included a call to thunderbird in my .bashrc file. So now
> Thunderbird comes up automatically for me.


Firstly I would recommend you do not put this in your ~/.bashrc file since
this file gets executed when ever you open up a terminal or login.

There is a much better way in Gnome. System ->Preferences ->Sessions add
Thunderbird to that.


> Except - fussy as I am - I would prefer Thunderbird in my second
> workspace, not the first where it is coming up.
>
> Is there any way of specifying which work space a program should load into?


As for the application opening up on the correct desktop I assumed compiz
had a plugin to save windows states.?

Hope this helps

David
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