how to start program on desktop #xx (not autostart)

[ammi]

With FLWM it is easy to switch desktops "ctrl-F<xx>"
but how could i start from terminal a program e. g. on desktop #3?
Could anybody please help? I did not find anything about this.

[maro]

My impression is that there is currently not provision to specify a particular FLWM desktop for the window of a X application. Whilst the '-display' option is supported by most (if not all) X apps to allow the selection of a specifc X server (but honestly how many users will run more than one), no such thing appears to be available for the selection of a specific FLWM desktop.

I only had a fairly cursory glance over the FLWM sources and could not identify a way to change the "desktop" value for a given "Frame" via a method external to the 'flwm' (or 'flwm_topside') process. I guess it would be feasible to create such an interface and a wrapper to start X applications that signals the target desktop to 'flwm', but I imagine that would be a fair amount of effort for fairly little gain.

Mind you I could be totally wrong, since I did not look to much into it.

[roberts]

You can always choose an alternate supported window manager that does.

[ammi]

thanks for your answer.
I already tried xdotool to change virtual desktop, but it does not work with FLWM.

It is possible to autostart applications on different desktops.

I found an example how this could be done:

mkdir -p ~/.wmx-auto/"Desktop 2"
ln -s /usr/bin/gimp ~/.wmx-auto/"The Gimp"
cat > ~/.wmx-auto/"Desktop 2"/"Terminal" <<EOF
#! /bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/rxvt -ut
EOF
chmod +x !*


This would autostart the applications but I did not find any possibility to manage this
when FLWM has already started.
I thought there should be a command to do this.

[ammi]

You can always choose an alternate supported window manager that does.

you're right! I tried Fluxbox and this has everything i want with 1 MB bigger OS
xdotool also works fine, thanks.