"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
Well, can you tell it to detect when a window changes its size and hints and only then apply the fullscreen hint to it? It's a real life scenario. QEMU starts with a fixed size window that cannot be resized or made fullscreen, but later, after the OS in the VM has booted, you can do that. And if you want that to happen automatically, you can achieve it with some Bash scripting and wmctrl.
BTW, by "fullscreen" I mean a special WM window hint, which makes the window lose decorations, cover the entire screen and drop all the way to the bottom whenever it loses focus. Not fullscreen as in change the video mode and let the application replace the desktop.
Member since:2005-07-07
Yeah, I was wondering about that one, but I didn't really understand what you meant. Now it's much more clear, and I've been looking through the settings. I don't think it's possible the way it would be with wmctrl, but it might be possible using other methods. Some allow you to ignore requested size so you can force another size from the start. The fullscreen thing itself I love, I have F11 as shortcut for fullscreen for every window - just in the windowmanager.
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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...