Start with minimized focus

First of all, thank you for such a great product!

I am using the free basic version on a Mythtv pvr. In order for the scraping jobs to run every hour, I have a cron job that triggers the scraping session, but in order for the scraping session to run, I need the workbench to be running. So I have it loaded at startup. The problem is that the workbench loads last and gets the focus, thus moving into the foreground of the PVR frontend app.

Is there a way or specific parameters for the free basic version to be launched "minimized", so it does not take the focus away from the PVR frontend app?

Thank you.