[openbox] Is there some sort of session management?

Matthew Mawdsley infinityx at blueyonder.co.uk
Mon Sep 25 17:04:22 EDT 2006


While not exactly what you asked for I think Devil's Pie might suit
your needs:

http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie

It's only for setting the initial position of Windows so it won't
remember if you move them, you'd need to update your devilspie
configs really.

Mat.

On 23:00 Mon 25 Sep     , Thomas Wehrspann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Openbox is a great windowmanager with nearly all features i need.
> But one is missing? Is it possible to store/restore the position of windows 
> on shutdown/startup of applications?
> The only thing i found was this statement:
> -------
>    allow for 'session management' of a sort. let the wm remember a window's
>    position/size/other attributes if they are saved by the user (window menu
>    or something). this is especially important for dockapps to be cool
> -------
> I'm using a Xinerama configuration with Openbox. Very minimalistic.
> No Gnome, KDE,... and i like to avoid GTK2 for the moment as well.
> 
> Is there something like this on the way or already in place?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Thomas Wehrspann
> 




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