How do I make a terminal on workspace 2 and make it active on startup

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Hyprland version 
Hyprland 0.55.0 built from branch v0.55.0 at commit af923e30d1d24f1f4a4f5cb8308065173c1d9539 clean (version: bump to 0.55.0).
Date: Sat May 9 13:35:27 2026
Tag: v0.55.0, commits: 7290

Libraries:
Hyprgraphics: built against 0.5.1, system has 0.5.1
Hyprutils: built against 0.13.1, system has 0.13.1
Hyprcursor: built against 0.1.13, system has 0.1.13
Hyprlang: built against 0.6.8, system has 0.6.8
Aquamarine: built against 0.11.0, system has 0.11.0

Version ABI string: af923e30d1d24f1f4a4f5cb8308065173c1d9539_aq_0.11_hu_0.13_hg_0.5_hc_0.1_hlg_0.6
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Quick and maybe easy for people who know, but how could i open a terminal at workspace 2 at hyprland.start?

Have a hard time trying to find info on hl.exec_cmd()

I guess there might be a way to name the terminal and then use hl.dsp.window.move on it, but i don’t really know lua to find out how.

This is the closest I have gotten:

hl.on(“hyprland.start”, function ()
hl.exec_cmd(“nm-applet”)
hl.exec_cmd(“waybar & hyprpaper”)
hl.exec_cmd(terminal, hl.dsp.window.move({ workspace = 2}))
end)

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think i am getting somewhere… I added a window rule

hl.exec_cmd(terminal, moveTerminal)

local moveTerminal = hl.window_rule({
match = { class = “kitty” },
workspace = 2,
})

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This moved it to the right workspace/monitor, but is not active before i move the mouse:(
Can i set active window in the window_rule?

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Now am starting to want to pull my hair out….

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it’s likely some app requests activation on startup, it’s quite common unfortunately (absolutely mongoloid electron devs usually) and so hyprland focuses them

You can focus apps though, hl.dispatch(hl.dsp.focus({ window = ... }))