Inst this simply KDEs activities?
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KDE window rules can do this natively
Hyprland window rules can also do this natively
Gnome can also do this with extensions as mentioned
Thanks, but could you clarify which extension to move for Gnome? native window placement is AFAIK just for the overview.
I don't use Gnome but first search came back with: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5353/window-state-manager/
Used to use fluxbox and it did this; fantastic feature.
Herbstluftwm. It's one of the main reasons I use it.
You can run commands on the command line to create your layouts for one or more desktop (tagged spaces), assign programs to appear on tagged spaces, and then run the programs. Put it all in a shell script and hlwm runs it when it starts.
I use xtoolwait for programs I want multiple windows on different desktops for, like terminals.
I have three monitors; one is a status window, and the other two are grouped together in 8 different tags. Mod4+9 focuses the status screen, Mod4+[1-8] switch the other two monitors in sync to the other workspaces. It's all set up when I log in, including the creation of several terminals each running tmux from sessions restored by trum-session. The only thing I have to do is enter a password to unlock my secrets so background processes can start doing their thing.
TDE has this natively under the advanced window settings, so I would expect KDE to have it too.
What's TDE?
Trinity Desktop Environment, forked from KDE3.
I do this with awesomewm. You define window startup behavior in the main config. Applications can have static behavior to start in certain places or will default to "wherever my cursor currently is". I suspect i3 has similar functionality
This can easily be achieved in Gnome with a couple of extensions
Which extensions do I need?
Native Window Placement I think it's called, I'm not in front of the computer. It's installed by default at least in Debian. And gTile for tiling.