Customizing "Run Shell command"

[Eric Mangold <eric teratorn org>]

Hello!

I would like to make "run shell command" a little bit more friendly. 
Currently, when one hits a key binding that runs a command, the program that 
is launched will appear on whichever workspace is active when the program 
connects to the X server. This may or may not be the workspace that was 
active when I hit the key binding. This can be annoying sometimes. When I 
wish to launch certain apps on certain workspaces, and while they take 
seconds to load I would like to switch to other workspaces.

I would appreciate any advice on how this could be done, especially 
considering I don't know anything about rep (or lisp in general). Or perhaps 
someone has already done this. All comments welcome.

Thanks,
-Eric Mangold