[openbox] ob and wmctrl

Mikael Magnusson mangosoft at comhem.se
Mon Feb 23 20:08:47 EST 2004


On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, John Russell wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 18:01, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Christian Timmer wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi there,
> > > 
> > > I want to control with wmctrl at which position my aterm starts. The menu-entry looks like this:
> > > 
> > > <item label="aterm">
> > >       <action name="Execute"><execute>aterm -title ...::aterm::... -e screen -A</execute></action>
> > >       <action name="Execute"><execute>wmctrl -r aterm -e 0,5,450,-1,-1</execute></action>
> > > </item>
> > > 
> > > Strange, but this doesn't work. I've tested wmctrl with various other apps inside the ob-menu, but I can't get it to work correctly. Btw, it works when I start wmctrl outside the ob-menu.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have a solution for this?
> > 
> > man aterm reveals the -geometry option
> > 
> 
> I'm pretty sure that geometry dictates the size of the window, not the
> position.

i regret to announce that you are very wrong and could have looked at said 
manual page

> John
> 

--
Mikael Magnusson



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