Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 23rd Dec 2007 17:53 UTC
"There are literally dozens of window managers that you can use with your favorite desktop environment to get a beautiful and appealing desktop. If you want to fine-tune your window manager, here are two programs that can help you control everything from application window size to pinning an application to all workspaces to fixing a position for your application windows to resizing desktops. One, wmctrl, works with any window managers that adheres to the Extended Window Manager Hints, while Devil's Pie is a window-matching utility, which means it can configure application windows based on defined rules."
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2006-06-21
There's a bit of a misconception you got there. wmctrl and its ilk are powertools, for special purposes. The comments to the original article on Linux.com have some interesting examples. There are things that you cannot achieve just from the window manager, no matter how nice it is. These tools handle window hints directly and react to them.