[Solved] What is the shell command to change workspace?

[sadhu]

I would like to write a simple shells script that would do the following

1. switch to workspace #N
2. run some app.[/list]

I can't seem to get xdotools to work, and in any case a script seems to be a more straightforward solution.

Back in the DOS days I had dozens of startup scripts (batch files), so this approach is nothing new.

[xenopeek]

Try wmctrl instead. To switch to workspace N, you give the command `wmctrl -s N-1`. So to switch to your second workspace that would be:

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wmctrl -s 1

To switch back to your first workspace:

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wmctrl -s 0

You don't really need a script for this though. Say you are on the first workspace and want to switch to the second workspace and open Firefox there, the command to use would be:

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wmctrl -s 1 && firefox

If you want to use this as a launcher in your menu you need to change the command to be:

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bash -c "wmctrl -s 1 && firefox"

[sadhu]

Works beautifully!
TYVM

[ericramos1990]

In case you wanted the xdotool solution, I use

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xdotool set_desktop 0

0 being the first workspace.

I only use 2 workspaces, so I made a script that toggles between both

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#!/bin/bash
aplay ~/notifications/workspace.wav &
if [ $(xdotool get_desktop) = 1 ]
then
xdotool set_desktop 0
else
xdotool set_desktop 1
fi

The first line is the sound effect from Cinnamon to switch workspaces you can find here:
/usr/share/mint-artwork-cinnamon/sounds/switch.oga

I had to convert it to .wav for aplay to play though