I need something like this when I start my openbox session:
firefox -p Profile 1 #Open in workspace 4 firefox -p profile 2 #Open in workspace 5
But all solutions that I’ve found uses the Windows Name parameter, and that doesn’t work very well. (I’ve tried modifying my openbox’s rc.xml and using wmctrl and a couple other solution, but all in vain)
Is there a direct solution for my problem? Thank you!
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UPDATE EDITED ANSWER
This is rather ugly maybe but I tried it and it seems to work… It is a lil bit complicated tho…or what do you think? “sleep” is needed because it needs to time to launch the searchquery so that the title gets set 🙂
1.Search-query version:
#!/bin/bash firefox -P test1 --new-instance --search "profile1" & firefox -P test2 --new-instance --search "profile2" & sleep 3; #profile1 to desktop 0 wmctrl -r "profile1" -t 0 #profile2 to desktop 1 wmctrl -r "profile2" -t 1
2.Using xdotool:
#!/bin/bash
temp="";
pid="";
firefox -P test1 --new-instance &
firefox -P test2 --new-instance &
sleep 1;
#profile1 to desktop 0
pid=`ps aux | grep test1 | awk '{print $2}' | head -1`
temp=`xdotool search --all --pid $pid | tail -n -1`
xdotool set_desktop_for_window $temp 0
#profile2 to desktop 1
pid=`ps aux | grep test2 | awk '{print $2}' | head -1`
temp=`xdotool search --all --pid $pid | tail -n -1`
xdotool set_desktop_for_window $temp 1