Initialise programs on startup and add to workspaces

[jaykilleen]

99% of the time after restarting or shutting down I am opening the same programs and I have post-it notes on my monitor so I remember which workspaces to add certain programs to.

Does anyone know of a good program that facilitates this? Besides diving into bash and running a startup script.

This follows pretty much listening to @dhh in the video walkthrough his preferred setup and what workspace numbers programs are getting pinned to.

[jaykilleen]

For now I'll give devilspie a go and see if it does an OK job.

OK that didn't last long. Back to the drawing board.

> devilspie
> Not an X11 display

[florentdestremau]

I'm interested in a solution too. If I could map a hotkey or a terminal command that opens

• Browser in workspace 1
• Terminal in workspace 2
• IDE in workspace 3
• Slack in workspace 4

It would be great.
Otherwise, a way to default each app to a specific workspace would to the trick as i can do Alt+1 2 3 4 and let them open up in the correct space. Currently I have to do Alt+1, Super+2, Alt+2, Super+3, Alt+3, Super+4, Alt+4, which is okayish but feels like it coul be scripted.

[Kasui92]

@jaykilleen @florentdestremau
If I understand correctly, you would need a behavior similar to that of this GNOME extension, Auto-Move-Windows:
Auto-Move-Windows

With Omakub providing 6 workspaces by default, it should be enough to configure each application to be assigned to its corresponding workspace. Something like:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.auto-move-windows application-list "['{APP1}.desktop:1', '{APP2}.desktop:2', '{APP3}.desktop:3', '{APP4}.desktop:4', '{APP5}.desktop:5', '{APP6}:6']"

Obviously instead of {APP*} it must be replaced with the name of the reference desktop file.

[florentdestremau]

will try this !

[florentdestremau]

wow it definitely does the trick, but I can't read the resulting configuration to store it somewhere

gsettings get org.gnome.shell.extensions.auto-move-windows application-list
> No such schema “org.gnome.shell.extensions.auto-move-windows”

[Kasui92]

Sorry!
I didn't mention that, like other extensions being installed, this one also needs to be compiled for set first via gsettings.

sudo cp ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/schemas/org.gnome.shell.extensions.auto-move-windows.gschema.xml /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

And

sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

Now you can use gsettings!

[florentdestremau]

nice: ['Alacritty.desktop:2', 'google-chrome.desktop:1', 'phpstorm_phpstorm.desktop:3', 'slack_slack.desktop:4']

Grazie!

[Kasui92]

Prego! 😃