Hey guys, I am trying to create a script to start a few tools I need the most often automatically. Calling

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kstart --desktop $2 $1 &

($2 is the number of the desktop, $1 the actual program) multiple times though does not result in the desired behaviour. All programs are opened on the desktop I am currently on even though I explicitly tell kstart to open them on different desktops. Using this command not in a script but calling it in zsh directly will work.
Has anyone faced this before / is there any trick to make this work?

NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"
Linux xxx 4.8.17-040817-generic #201701090438 SMP Mon Jan 9 09:40:28 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh

script:
#!/usr/bin/env zsh
function start_if_not_running() {
...
kstart --desktop $2 $1 &
...

If you are using the plasma 5 / KDE Frameworks 5 - Kinfocenter: https://www.kde.org/applications/system/kinfocenter/

Try the command kstart5:

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$ kstart5 --help
Usage: kstart5 [options]
Utility to launch applications with special window properties
such as iconified, maximized, a certain virtual desktop, a special decoration
and so on.

Options:
  -v, --version              Displays version information.
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Hi!

I've been using kstart for some time now without problems.

I recently updated from OpenSuse Leap 15.2 to 15.4.

Kstart is not starting applications on the requested desktop (they always start on the current desktop). Also, the -geometry statement is not respected (it worked nicely before). The problem is the same with kstart5. Both commands do not send any error messages.

Please help!

Thank you.

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kstart5 does not work either (same behaviour... starts application on current desktop). The -geometry statement does not work either (the application always start with the last geometry setting).