Take charge of your window manager with WMCTRL and Devil's Pie
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 89.136.186.184]
on December 21, 2007 04:35 PM
I use wmctrl do a lot of interesting stuff. Such as maximizing windows that change their size and title/class/name while they run (such as QEMU) and so Devil's Pie cannot deal with them. So I run scripts that employ wmctrl to check for these changes and maximize.
The biggest limitation in wmctrl is that it was left incomplete and cannot perform all the hints that the full spec allows for. And for both wmctrl and Devil's Pie is true that they left out clearing certain flags -- you can set the "skip the pager" flag, but you can't clear it!
For keyboard and mouse control I also recommend xmacro and Xnee, as well as irexec if you have a remote. Together with xmodmap you can do some pretty nifty stuff.
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Take charge of your window manager with WMCTRL and Devil's Pie
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 89.136.186.184] on December 21, 2007 04:35 PMThe biggest limitation in wmctrl is that it was left incomplete and cannot perform all the hints that the full spec allows for. And for both wmctrl and Devil's Pie is true that they left out clearing certain flags -- you can set the "skip the pager" flag, but you can't clear it!
For keyboard and mouse control I also recommend xmacro and Xnee, as well as irexec if you have a remote. Together with xmodmap you can do some pretty nifty stuff.
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