[openbox] How to automatically position a window?

bleak bleak at netvisao.pt
Sat Jun 12 08:26:31 EDT 2004


Marc Wilson wrote:

>On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 05:21:45PM +0000, bleak wrote:
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>>Here's a few things I'd like to see in openbox:
>>1. window autoproperties
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>Bah, stuff like that belongs in an external application like devilspie.
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>>2. run script after startup
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>What window manager does this, and what would be the point?  What can you
>accomplish with the window manager launching some script that you can't
>accomplish via your xinitrc/xsession file?
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>>3. full theamable window decorations (kind of the way pekwm does it)
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>Ever considered just running the window manager that already does things
>the way you want them to be?
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For the 1st and 2nd points you might be correct but for the 3rd you're 
completely wrong. I don't think that sould be the attitude here. I like 
openbox and how it works and i will continue to use it. I just made a 
sugestion of what i think would improve it.

Wilson Oliveira



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