Bug 60840

Summary:	terminal options start program minimized
Product:	[Applications] kfile	Reporter:	carl <gooly>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	l.lunak, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description carl 2003-07-06 11:47:43 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:          Linux

Hi,

I haven't found (Google, Help, Docs,..) any hint how to start a program either through KControl->Menu or within an icon on the Desktop with/in a minimized window (in background)

Can be that there are Terminal options to be set, but it seems as if they are kept stricly confidential ;-)

I'd suggest either radio buttons maximized <-> minimized or check button minimized if checked.

Anyway thanks for your fantastic work,
Carl

Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2003-07-06 22:45:38 UTC

you want this: kstart --iconify <command> 
check out `kstart --help`, lots of goodies in there... 
i suppose what this is, then, is a wishlist item asking for kstart options to be available 
in the dialog... tricky, but doable.. i wouldn't expect it any time soon, though, unless you 
supply a patch ;-)

Comment 2 carl 2003-07-07 10:41:03 UTC

Subject: Re:  terminal options start program minimized

Am Sonntag, 6. Juli 2003 22:45 schrieben Sie:
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> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60840
> aseigo@olympusproject.org changed:
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>            What    |Removed                     |Added
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>- Severity|normal                      |wishlist
>              Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
>       everconfirmed|0                           |1
>             Product|kcontrol                    |kio
>
>
>
> ------- Additional Comments From aseigo@olympusproject.org  2003-07-06
> 22:45 ------- you want this: kstart --iconify <command>
> check out `kstart --help`, lots of goodies in there...
> i suppose what this is, then, is a wishlist item asking for kstart options
> to be available in the dialog... tricky, but doable.. i wouldn't expect it
> any time soon, though, unless you supply a patch ;-)

Well you might be right it's could be a wish-list topic,
But if you have to enter in Kcontrol this line to get s.th started in konsole 
in the background looks a little more like a mistakenly forgotten option than 
a s.th. that just would be nice to have:
	kstart --iconify konsole --noclose -e perl myprg.pl
(3 different orders in a row, to get it background? KDE is compeeting MS-Win 
and should be better!)

By the way (just found out) the option --noclose does not work correctly, you 
don't get a prompt back to go on: the konsole stucks. Tested with several 
programs not only 'myprg.pl'.
Do you have freecive? Try this:
	kstart --iconify konsole --noclose -e civserver
Then quit the server and see what happens (try to restart on that console)


Carl

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2009-08-27 02:34:32 UTC

Moving from "kio/kfile" component to "kfile" product, helps sorting out duplicates.

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2018-04-11 19:04:28 UTC

You should be able to this with KWin window rules.