Virtual Desktops

[helland]

Hi!

I need to run an application on the specific virtual desktop. (Ideally I need to run an application which uses GUI on invisible desktop, tried to use Xvfb, but had a problem there)

The question. Is there any way to run application from the console on a specific virtual desktop.
e.g. if I want to run firefox on desktop 2, what command should I use?

Thanks in advance,
Oleg

[Rog131]

Re: Virtual Desktops

You could use kstart:

man kstart

KSTART(1) application launch utility KSTART(1)

NAME
kstart - Utility to launch applications with special window properties

SYNOPSIS
kstart [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [options] command
...
--desktop <number>
Desktop on which to make the window appear
...

=>

I want to run firefox on desktop 2, what command should I use?

 kstart --desktop 2 firefox

Is working here.

[helland]

Re: Virtual Desktops

But it switches to that Desktop!

I want to use it to run selenium tests on my website. So don't want it to switch me to the other Desktop for tests

The goal is to run test in the background

[Rog131]

Re: Virtual Desktops

But it switches to that Desktop!

Here it doesn't switch. Kubuntu (7.10) Gutsy Gibbon / KDE 3.5.8.