kstart --desktop not working correctly?

[Tony Dietrich]

On Monday 03 Jan 2005 22:21, Charles R. Dennett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been running RedHat9 for coming up on two years.  This past weekend
> I upgraded my system to FC3.  The upgrade went well.  After the upgrade
> I ran up2date and made sure I had the latest.
>
> Under RH9 I had a script in ~/.kde/Autostart I used to start up various
> windows on certain desktops.  It looked something like this:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> kstart --desktop 1 konsole -geometry 661x921-0+0 -profile MainKonsole
>
> kstart --desktop 2 konsole -geometry 1267x449+0+0 -profile BoincKonsole
>
> kstart --desktop 3 thunderbird
>
> kstart --desktop 4 firefox
>
> Pretty simple.  Well, under FC3 it works...sort of.  All four windows
> start but it's a crap shoot as to which desktop each one will open in.
> I tried adding "sleep 5" before each kstart command and it helped some,
> but sometimes windows will open in a random desktop.  All this worked
> fine under RH9.  Never had a problem with it.
>
> I've searched the archives of this list and googled for a report of a
> similar problem but have come up empty so far.  So, before I went too
> much further, I figured I'd drop a note here just in case someone else
> knew about this.
>
> Perhaps the ~/.kde/Autostart is not the way to do this now.  Perhaps
> kstart has been replaced with something else  (kstart --help still shows
> my syntax to be correct.)
>
> Let me know if you need more info - versions of stuff or whatever.  If
> I've missed something in my searches, just point me in the right direction.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Charlie

Charlie

You shouldn't need this at all, KDE has pretty good session management.

Simply start the programs/consoles as the user(s), then log out.

KDE should restart the same programs next time you log back on as that user.
-- 
Tony Dietrich
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