[openbox] Remember window-settings?

Mikael Magnusson mangosoft at comhem.se
Tue Mar 23 13:53:04 EST 2004


On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Kristian Niemi wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, exactly what are the windowmanagers tasks; what's 
> windowmanager-specific, and when does it cross over the line and become 
> a task for `a full featured desktop environment'?
> 
> Icons on the desktop etc., /that/ belongs to a `full featured desktop 
> environment' or some such, or so I've understood it. But remembering 
> /window/-geometry and -position seems to me to be something related to, 
> and only to, /windows/, hence I thought that it might be the 
> /window/managers task to control this?
> 
> 
> Seems like Devil's Pie could be the thing I was looking for though, so 
> thanks to all who've mentioned it (and wmctrl)!
> 
> h: Kristian

i think it might be nice to add this to openbox, but i'm not sure it would 
be worth the time when we have devilspie (but the config and docs for it 
are so bad it hurts me, does anyone know if it can match WM_CLASS instead 
of titles?)

--
Mikael Magnusson



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