Re: [rox-users] spatial ROX?

[Niklas V. <mit...@we...>]

Thanks for all your answers!

I have indeed tried devilspie.  It seems useful, but it is not really 
something I would call 'automatic' since you have to specify everything 
by hand.  Is there any GUI for it, so you don't have to edit the XML 
file by hand?

> 
> Yeap, devilspie's a pretty cool thingy, however it tends to lag a bit; 
> i.e. the window opens, you can see it during a short instant, then it 
> gets resized/moved (might be because devilspie detects new windows thx 
> to a gtk callback, which adds a level of wrapping, dunno...)
> 
> But ideally, with the upcoming of the composite extension in X11R6.8, 
> this behaviour should be implemented directly in the composite manager - 
> which would eliminate the aforementioned lag issue.

What do you mean by that?  How does the composite manager differ to the 
current situation?  I know that there is currently a lot of talk about 
this new thing, but I don't quite understand what it is. Does it mean 
that the window manager gets control over the window before it is 
rendered while that wasn't true before?

Best regards,

Niklas.