[opensuse-kde] Starting app minimized or in foreground
Hi there, is there a KDE wrapper that can be used to start an application minimized or in the foreground, as needed ? Malte -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 30 March 2011 14:43:28 Malte Gell wrote:
is there a KDE wrapper that can be used to start an application minimized or in the foreground, as needed ?
kstart. You can also define rules in kwin (alt-f3, Advanced, Special * Settings) to set rules per window or per application, but that is local to your installation only. If for example you wanted to roll this out to many users, scripting using kstart would be easier than splicing these rules into everyone's kwinrulesrc configs. Will -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
Will Stephenson <wstephenson@suse.de> wrote
On Wednesday 30 March 2011 14:43:28 Malte Gell wrote:
is there a KDE wrapper that can be used to start an application minimized or in the foreground, as needed ?
kstart.
Yes, that is what I was looking for.
You can also define rules in kwin (alt-f3, Advanced, Special * Settings) to set rules per window or per application, but that is local to your installation only. If for example you wanted to roll this out to many users, scripting using kstart would be easier than splicing these rules into everyone's kwinrulesrc configs.
I want to start apps from scripts, so kstart is more suitable than window rules. Thanx Malte -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 06:43:28 am Malte Gell wrote:
Hi there,
is there a KDE wrapper that can be used to start an application minimized or in the foreground, as needed ?
In application, Right click on title bar -> Advanced -> Special Application Settings Is that what you were looking for? -- Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:43, Malte Gell <malte.gell@...> wrote:
Hi there,
is there a KDE wrapper that can be used to start an application minimized or in the foreground, as needed ?
Normally an application should honor the X Toolkit Options (see man X) options, so "-iconic" should work to start minimized/iconified. But start in foreground / minimized is also handled by the windowmanager in case of KDE normally kwin. As there is no manpage for kwin and the other documentation on kwin isn't necessarily clear on such, there is no help forthcoming from that part. An application can easily set this kind of requests at startup to be sent to the windowmanager, but it's a matter of the programmers to do so, or to allow program options/paramerters at startup to influence this. As whole, no, this is not a KDE specific problem, but an application problem. Yamaban out. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:08, Yamaban <foerster@...> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:43, Malte Gell <malte.gell@...> wrote:
is there a KDE wrapper that can be used to start an application minimized or in the foreground, as needed ?
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I stand corrected, thanks to Will Stephenson. "kstart" is indeed the answer to this. see "kstart --help" for how to. Yamaban out. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
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