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How to open a gnome-terminal in specific workspace and run script within it automatically upon login
OK this is a bit messy.

I run Fedora with gnome on a compiz desktop, I have a script (userstart) that opens my 'standard' environment for all my machines when I login. userstart flips to a specific workspace and then opens the required applications in that workspace then flips to the next workspace....

I'm trying to enhance userstart as occasionally compiz won't kick in in time or the first workspace doesn't get flipped to properly.

So I've added to userstart commands that it detects which workspace it's in before it starts opening the apps on that workspace, however this requires that userstart is called from a 'hand off' script that's active on any desktop workspace.

So how do I automatically after login open a gnome-terminal session on a workspace that automatically calls the userstart script?

Thanks in advance

---------- Post updated at 10:34 AM ---------- Previous update was at 02:56 AM ----------

OK I worked out a way to do this.......
 
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gnome-session

GNOME(1)						      General Commands Manual							  GNOME(1)

gnome-session - Starts up the GNOME desktop environment

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-session [--choosesession] [--failsafe] [--purge-delay=DELAY] [--warn-delay=DELAY] [--suicide-delay=DELAY] [session-name]

DESCRIPTION

       The  gnome-session  program starts up the GNOME desktop environment.  This command is typically executed by your login manager (either gdm,
       xdm, or from your X startup scripts).  It will load either your last session, or it will provide a default session for the user as  defined
       by the system administrator (or the default GNOME installation on your system).

       You can optionally specify a specific session name to restore.

       gnome-session is an X11R6 session manager.  It can manage GNOME applications as well as any X11R6 SM compliant.

       gnome-session  uses  the  contents  of  the   ~/.gnome/session  file  for  starting  up	as  specified by the "Current Sesssion" key in the
       ~/.gnome/session-options file.  Various default values are provided in case the file entry does not exist.

       If the session file does not exist, gnome-session will use the contents of the /usr/share/gnome/default.session file.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --choose-session=ARG
	      User can specify a session to load, as opposed to the session specified in the ~/.gnome/session-options file. If that entry does not
	      exist  in  the  ~/.gnome/session file (or if that file doesn't exist), it will use the default session and all saves to that session
	      will be to the new session name.

       --failsafe
	      Fail safe operations mode: only reads saved sessions from the default.session file.

       --purge-delay=ARG
	      The number of millisecond that gnome-session will wait for clients to register, if you use 0 it will wait  forever  (default  value:
	      30,000 milliseconds).

       --warn-delay=ARG
	      The  number  of  millisecond  that gnome-session will wait for clients to respond, if you use 0 it will wait forever (default value:
	      10,000 milliseconds).

       --suicide-delay=ARG
	      The number of millisecond that gnome-session will wait for clients to die, if you use 0 it will wait forever (default value:  10,000
	      milliseconds).

ENVIRONMENT

       gnome-session  accepts  all  of the standard environment variables used by gnome programs, other than the SESSION_MANAGER environment vari-
       able. [ xref to a manpage where this is documented. ] gnome-session also sets several environment variables for the use of its  child  pro-
       cesses.

       SESSION_MANAGER

	      This variable is used by session-manager aware clients to contact gnome-session.

       DISPLAY

	      This variable is set to the X display being used by gnome-session. Note that if the --display option is used this might be different
	      from the setting of the environment variable when gnome-session is invoked.

SEE ALSO

       default.session(5),gnome-session-save(1)

BUGS

       If you find bugs in the gnome-session program, please report these using  bug-buddy  or	the  gnome-bug	script	included  with	the  GNOME
       libraries distribution.

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