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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Member since:2006-06-21
Maybe I should mention KWin does almost all of that stuff by default, and is a whole lot more usable... No messing around in config files, just point and click ;-)
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.
Member since:2005-07-07
Hmmm, I read them, didn't see much interesting. I either don't really understand what they do, or they can do it with KWin ;-)
You should have a look at KWin, I can easily imagine KWin can actually do a lot wmcrl and devil's pie can't do, while I wonder about the opposite...
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2005-07-07
Meh, I quit MS Win 98 because I had to install all kinds of tools and small applications (freeware or illegal, mostly) to get it to do what I wanted. Needed to fix functionality which should've been there in the first place. Result was of course bad performance, crashes and a lot of wasted time on configuration and keeping the apps up-to-date.
When trying linux, I found out it already did most of these things in a consistent, stable manner. Me happy. I wouldn't know why one would want to go back patching basic stuff because he/she didn't choose a capable windowmanager in the first place ;-)
Enough ranting - there is some interesting stuff in there, but its generally rather hard to use it seems. Maybe I should mention KWin does almost all of that stuff by default, and is a whole lot more usable... No messing around in config files, just point and click ;-)