I just got into the whole litestep and scripting thing but I have search all over the place and I cant seem to get this idea to work even though I have found people who have talked about doing it before. What I am trying to do is start certain applications on different desktops. I want to start say my internet in desktop 1 and my email in desktop 2 , MIRC in desktop 3 and so on at start up. Can someone please help?
Brian
No docs came with this. It was installed by g-series skin.
Ok I have found the docs on litestep.net and read them. I have tried to use the commands to do so and it doesnt work for me. Am I suppose to be editing the ckvwm under the theme's config directory? What commands exactly do I use? !vwmdesk, !vwmopen? Thanks
Check C:\Litestep\modules\docs for the documentation of all installed modules. Look up *VWMStartWindowsOnDesktop in ckvwm-1.xx.txt
ok so I ran that command and still nothing happened. I used qutations for my paths. The command goes *VWMStartWindowsOnDesktop "c:\path\to\program\program.exe" 1
So start program on windows start on desktop 1. Nothing happens. I tried it a bunch of different ways on the ckvwm config file. I saw somewhere else that you might have to set a label.
*VWMStartWindowsOnDesktop says "when I start this program, put it on this desktop." It doesn't actually start the program for you.
And you don't use the file name. "You can specify what windows, by specifying its window name or class name, will start on the specified desktop number."
So you would use exec $Browser$ and moveapp to execute and move them to the specified desktop. I am still really new to the whole programing thing. Maybe I will give up. What language do I need to start learning for scripting and coding? Thanks for your help.
Brian
No scripting required.
Start the programs and get their window class with winspy or something. Add *VWMStartWindowsOnDesktop lines for each using the appropriate class names. Create shortcuts to each program in your startup folder. (Assuming I've understood your intentions.)
No guarantees though, I haven't actually tried that...
Yea I got that off mirc. Thats how its done. According to the people I have talked to many people have had problems trying to do this. Thanks for your help. Later