People,
First thing - I have not looked at a tiling window manager since the days of the 0.9 kernels! I have been using XFCE for a couple of decades now but have really been hanging out for Wayland to become stable enough for my daily WS. Recently, after upgrading to F34 I checked out W+Gnome but Gnome drove me crazy; I tried W+KDE which restored nearly all the functionality and configuring I had with Xorg+XFCE - but I was still not happy - it was a little unstable and much slower to start things up . . so I installed Sway - and although it has only been barely a week - I love it! It is very fast and has been very stable so far. With ten workspaces going it allows me to work the way I want to. So I will just post here when I can't work out from the available info how to do something - as my new environment evolves.
First Q:
I use Chrome for "standard" windows, FireFox for webmail and Brave as the "workhorse" for everything else - I would like my config to load a bunch of stuff whenever I go to that particular workspace . . IF they have not been already opened . . ie NOT load all the workspaces at once when Sway first starts - that would cause a LOT of disk thrashing.
Currently my setup is:
1 root terminals 2 phr terminals 3 Chrome with "standard" windows - normally managed with the TabFern extension 4 FF 5 Brave - current ToDo stuff 6 Brave - off on tangents . . 7 Multimedia - mpv, audacity, qasmixer + 8 Telegram 9 Hexchat + 10 Remote terminals
I would normally open these workspaces in the order above - is there a way to do what I want so after bootup I go to each workspace in turn and the required apps start up automatically? (if they haven't done so already).
Thanks!
Phil.