[openbox] devilspie and wmctrl

John Russell drjimmy42 at yahoo.com
Wed May 12 11:42:43 EDT 2004


Maybe some integration with wmctrl and devilspie is in order.  Maybe a
DevilsPieActionWmctrl action....

On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 16:27 +0100, Md Mooktakim Ahmed wrote:
> That would be nice. But it would be even better to have devilspie be able to do same
> thing as wmctrl.
> One thing i want from devilspie is the resizing of windows and positioing them.
> 
> > This may not be the right place to ask this, but I have seen frequent
> > mention of devilspie on this list as a way of manipulating windows every
> > time they are opened a la sawfish.
> >
> > Does anyone know if its possible to get devilspie to execute an
> > arbitrary command on a new window?  The most useful example of this that
> > springs to mind is some form of wmctrl manipulation of a new window.
> > e.g. use devilspie to pattern match the window when it gets created and
> > then use wmctl to do something to it.
> >
> > Thanks for the help.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> 
> 
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