KDE Menu Editor - how to choose desktop?

[Rex Dieter]

On 10/18/2011 09:35 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I use the KDE menu editor to create little applications
> to login to various remote machines.
>
> For example, I have an application entitled "alfred login"
> in my Favourites, and when I click on this
> "ssh alfred-vpn" is run to open an ssh session
> on the remote machine "alfred".
>
> This works fine, and by right-clicking on the top of the window
> and going to Advanced=>Special Window Settings=>Desktop
> I can try to force the session to open in Desktop 4, say.
>
> But I find this does not always work
> (or maybe has stopped working properly?)
> so I was wondering if there is some switch one can give
> to the ssh command to specify a desktop to open?


Not sure if it works for remote apps, but you could try using 'kstart'

kstart --currentdesktop <app>
or
kstart --desktop 1 <app>

See kstart --help for all the options available.

-- rex