Open application in specific workspace (xfce)

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Hello. What is a terminal command to open an app in a specified workspace.
For example, open a Chrome browser in Workspace 2.
Also, could you send me a link to the documentation for this topic.
Thank you.

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Hello. The desktop environment that qubes ships with by default is XFCE. Since it’s not qubes-specific, I don’t think you’ll find official Qubes documentation on this. But if you look for XFCE Auto starting applications into specific workspaces, you’ll likely find what you’re looking for.

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I believe that the standard advice for Xfce is to install devilispie,
which allows you to make applications start in specified workplaces:
you can also set size and placement.
If you install KDE, this has the same functionality built in, and allows
you to set rules using GUI tool.

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Some qubes-specific devilspie2 code examples here:

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An alternative too is i3. You can use regex to match VM on workspaces :wink: