On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:47:02PM +0000, Bozelos Dimitris wrote:
Hello everyone, After making the usual statement that I'm completely new to xmonad and I have no clue about haskell, I have loved xmonad and I have a question to find out if I can make more out of it: I'm using fedora linux with xmonad and i'm preparing for a music performance. I need at the concert to be able to startup my laptop and if possible to have everything up and running, without having to switch between desktops and run terminals & programs. This means that I don't only want to run some programs at startup (which could be done in the usual way for linux with a startup script - although I don't really know much about it) but I want the programs to be ran from terminals and be placed in the desktops in the way I would do manually after launching xmonad. Is this possible with xmonad? Any simple tutorials available on this? Thanks, Dimitris
I may add to Don's reply that you may want to use manage hooks to ensure the programs you start end up on the right workspace. I seem to understand from your message that this is what you want. For example, if you have a program whose window has window class "Mixer", and you want this on workspace "4", your xmonad configuration should look something like myManageHooks = composeAll [ className =? "Mixer" --> doShift "4" , ... ] and in your "main" xmonad $ defaultConfig { manageHook = myManageHooks , ... } Cheers, Norbert