[openbox] ob and wmctrl

[Mikael Magnusson]

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

> thx,
> 
> christian
> 
> 

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Mikael Magnusson