I run 4 different browsers, each of which I use for different purposes, greatly reducing my normal level of general confusion, and I like to have each one on a different workspace.

Is there a way to have a browser open only on workspace 2? or 3?.. for example, can I set Iridium to ONLY open on Workspace 2?

Perhaps I would need a small script - I just don't know where to start.

You can do this with some window managers, such as Fluxbox. Right-click on the title bar and go to Remember-->Workspace. I don't know about desktop environments.

What distro/version/desktop are you using?

Running Manjaro 18 Cinnamon desktop. (It's brilliant, btw - that solution, but this setup doesn't have it)

I hope someone more familiar with Cinnamon than I will join this thread.

I hope so, too. Manjaro Cinnamon is "da bomb"

Have you checked on the IRC channel? Freenode --> /join #manjaro

As an aside, in my very limited experience (limited means "not a feature that fits my workflow," as it clearly does fit OP's workflow), I've not found such an option in most DEs, only in WMs.

However, in searches relevant to this thread last night, I found references to something called xprop that indicated it might offer a solution. My search string was "cinnamon pin applications workspace," if anyone wishes to duplicate my search.

I have no interest in testing this myself because Fluxbox, but, after mulling it over, I decided it was worth passing on.

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FWIW, that is very easy to accomplish in Openbox:

Small excerpt from ~/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml

<application name="some application" type="normal">
<focusNew>no</focusNew>
<maximized>yes</maximized>
<decor>no</decor>
<focus>no</focus>
<desktop>3</desktop>
</application>

I get the name of the application with this command:

$ obxprop | sed '/OB_APP/!d'

Just in case someone in the future possibly coming from a google search might be interested in it. Since you use Cinnamon, it's not useful to you. Sorry.

BTW, Openbox is awesome.

(I did once Slack and I did go back. I still like Bob though.)

Thanks, frankbell
Your string "cinnamon pin applications workspace" was really helpful - I'd had no idea what to search for.
Didn't get a solution, but got some other questions.

What is the command that changes from 1 workspace to another?

came up in my new searches.
However, I don't know what I'm doing wrong here:
will move Kpatience over 2 workspaces.
Strangely, I can't get it to work with any other programs, nor can I get it to work in a script.

Any more thoughts?

How Cinnamon works I can't say, but with TDE, KDE3 and Plasma, I select one of 8 virtual desktops, then open the browser I want there. I generally have browsers open on 4 or 5 of the 8, occasionally 6.

Yeah, I know this is a "first-world-problem" but it would just be so elegant if when I started FF it automatically opened in the workspace I wanted it to; having to actually perform an extra click is so damn onerous.

It maybe a first world problem, but many do it that way and like it that way.
You only need to change window managers - I recommend openbox or fluxbox - maybe they can coexist with cinnamon, i.e. you replace cinnamon's WM with flux-/openbox.

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Wowser.
Sounds like a plan.
First, I didn't know that option existed. Sometimes I'm pretty clueless; on further thought, I remember something from experiments with Mate desktop about that.

Shall look into this.
Thanks.

Being playing with this for a bit; the biggest issue was the timing. I found that using "wmctrl" doesn't work very well in the Startup Applications - I think it has to do with so much variable timing.

But:
This script opens Vivaldi in Workspace 4.

and I use this one to update my checkbook:

Playing with this was fun - learned lots of stuff.