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I hate clutter on my desktop and was pleaseed when I found the ksmoothdock (similar to the dock on a MAC) but the problem is whenever I start KDE I have to start the ksmoothdock manually? Is there any way I can set this to start automatically?
I use runlevel 3 by default and get the GUI's by running "startx".
But it would be easiest to go to the KDE control panel and find the session management controls and choose restart automatically saved sessions. Then in the K-menu (e.g. start menu in windows), click on the save session option. Then log out and log in and it should work.
I also believe that if you put a link to the application in the Autostart folder this would also work and probably be better than creating a short script.
I created the link and it worked. I had tried to save the session andset kde to remember the last session, but for some reason that hadnt worked. Thanks for the help!
How do I launch applications in a particular desktop?
KDE comes with a program called kstart. To start an xterm on the second desktop and then activate it use: kstart --desktop 2 --activate --window "xterm" xterm.
Note that the --window option is important. It takes an argument which is a regular expression matching the title of the window to apply the settings to.
Please read kstart --help-all for more magic available with kstart (and there is an abundance).
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