[openbox] Is there some sort of session management?

Marco Louter marco at macr0.net
Mon Sep 25 17:03:24 EDT 2006


On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 23:00 +0200, Thomas Wehrspann wrote:
> 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?

You might want to try Devilspie
( http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie ). I'm not sure if
it possible to do everything you said but it sure comes close.
-- 
Marco Louter

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