Command to open VMs in respective XFCE panel workplaces

[Franz]

I installed V3.2  and started to play with the XFCE environment (very nice, many thanks to developers)

It seems that if you open many VMs and many applications they are not grouped per VMs as with KDE, but are all randomly mixed together, so the panel is messy.

Found that the 4 workplaces on the panel can help to put some order manually dedicating a worplace to each VM. That is good!

I know how to start VM and applications from dom0 and have a script that does that. But is it possible to modify the script to tell for example that firefox of work VM should go into worplace 3 ?

Of course the purpose of all that is to automate the starting of Qubes putting the more used applications each in its proper worplace.

But of course there may be other way of which I am unaware to put some order on the panel.

Best

Fran

[Franz]

I found a solution with wmctrl -s <n> where n is the number of the workplace.  wmctrl  is default installed in dom0:

qvm-start personal

sleep 3

wmctrl -s 1

qvm-run personal nautilus

qvm-run personal firefox

qvm-start work

sleep 3

wmctrl -s 2

qvm-run work nautilus

qvm-run work firefox

etc.

If you put this in a script it will separate VMs each in its workplace with a nice order.

Best

Fran