[openbox] Binding of applications to the desktop

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, Knute wrote:

> First off, I KNOW I'm top posting and that certain sensibilities will be 
> touched off, but right now, I don't care.

Why? Did your parents give you a permission slip?

> Secondly, the "send to desktop" option wasn't what they were looking 
> for, so you can put your screenshots away.

It's funny you should say this when the original posts explicitly says he 
is using <applications> to put the window on a specific desktop when it 
starts.

> To the origonal poster, and your question of binding a window to a 
> certain desktop.... I'm guessing that you want all, say Firefox windows 
> to come up on desktop 2 or something.
>
> In order to do that, you need to go into the rc.xml (located in 
> ~/.config/openbox) and add a section under applications that would look 
> something like this:
>
> <applications>
>   <application class="whatever">
>       <desktop>2</desktop>
>        .
>        .
>   </application>
>   <application role="something">
>      .
>      .
>   </application>
> </applications>
>
>
> It's well documented in the default rc.xml file.


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Mikael Magnusson