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Linux Desktop Hacks
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Linux Desktop Hacks

by Nicholas Petreley, Jono Bacon
March 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 5, KDE Desktop
#38 Start Applications in Weird and Wonderful Ways
HACK
Be careful not to download a gadget that requires a later ver-
sion of superkaramba than the version you have installed,
unless you are prepared to compile and install the latest ver-
sion of superkaramba itself.
HACK
#38
Start Applications in Weird
and Wonderful Ways Hack #38
Start your applications in customized ways to make your programs run
exactly how you want them to.
With modern desktop environments, starting applications is a straightfor-
ward concept—you either click an application icon or you type in the name
of a program. Simple. But if you look under the hood of this simplicity,
you’ll find a number of tricks and techniques for starting applications in
clever and interesting ways. This hack shows you how to make an applica-
tion start on a particular virtual desktop, load into a particular mode, always
appear on top of other applications, or load in full-screen mode.
Figure 5-2. SuperKaramba program
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