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When I'm at work, I use KDE activities and map them to my projects. I always use the same applications on every project, so I'd like to keep my windows visible when I change the activity. For the moment, what I do is go through every window, right click on the title bar, and check the checkbox that makes the window appear on all activities. How can I configure my windows default value for this choice? I'd like every window to appear on all activities by default.

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It's not elegant, but might help. Idea that comes to my mind is to search for such windows with xwininfo or xdotool search --name WINDOWNAME and then try to "inject" mouse clicks or - this is easier - keystrokes ( example: xdotool search --name WINNAME key ctrl+c. that results in such setting ( "alt+space" usually gets WM window options, later arrows... this should be possible to do by keystrokes injection ).

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Not very elegant indeed, but if there is no other solution, I guess I should look into that... – greg0ire Jan 26 '12 at 21:47
That's why I've wrote it. If nothing better will be around, try this shot. – Grzegorz Wierzowiecki Jan 26 '12 at 23:43
I will, thanks. – greg0ire Jan 27 '12 at 9:00
I've tried to find out on community.kde.org/Main_Page and techbase.kde.org/… and api.kde.org , but with no success. – Grzegorz Wierzowiecki Jan 27 '12 at 21:01
It seems there is no solution just the workaround you and I proposed... for the moment – greg0ire Feb 5 '12 at 14:35
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I asked the question here : http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=98797&p=211999#p211999 and it appears not closing the windows when shutting the computer down makes them reappear on startup with the same options, which is a good workaround for this problem.

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