gdevilspie not working

Question

I'd like to always open the gedit application in workspace 3.

Environment: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and gedevilspie

How can I get the following simple code to work?

dinesh@ubuntu:~/.devilspie$ cat text.ds 
; generated_rule text
( if 
( begin 
( is ( application_name ) "gedit" )
) 
( begin 
( set_workspace 3 )
( println "match" )
)
)

Current Configuration

dinesh@ubuntu:~/.devilspie$ cat text.ds 
; generated_rule text
( if 
( begin 
( is ( application_name ) "gedit" )
) 
( begin 
( set_viewport 3 )
( println "match" )
)
)

My synaptic shows compiz , compiz-core, compiz-gnome, compiz-plugins, compiz-plugins-default as INSTALLED. If you suggest me to un-install compiz, do i get impact on my cairo-dock and what other impact I will have — Dinesh Kalidassan, Mar 20 '17 at 10:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 20 '17 at 14:26

0

Specify viewport instead of workspace.

( if 
( begin 
( is ( application_name ) "gedit" )
) 
( begin 
( set_viewport 3 )
( println "match" )
)
)

answered Mar 20 '17 at 14:26

TooManyPets

604

Attempted not working. – Dinesh Kalidassan Mar 20 '17 at 15:02
@Dinesh Let's kill it, restart, and launch gedit: killall devilspie && devilspie & gedit
You should see the word 'match' in the terminal after gedit is launched.
– TooManyPets Mar 20 '17 at 16:03
Executed from worspace 1, expecting gedit to open at workspace 3. Terminal displays match but gedit opens in the workspace 1. dinesh@ubuntu:~$ killall devilspie && devilspie & gedit [1] 1145 match – Dinesh Kalidassan Mar 20 '17 at 16:50
Hmm. Working for me. Would you mind posting text.ds again, just to be sure? – TooManyPets Mar 20 '17 at 16:55
Sometime back it did not work, now its working. Not sure about the stability, let me watch for sometime, then i need to add few more applications. – Dinesh Kalidassan Mar 21 '17 at 02:18
@Dinesh Is this resolved? – TooManyPets Mar 27 '17 at 13:23
it is not stable and erratic. – Dinesh Kalidassan Apr 03 '17 at 16:59

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