Re: [rox-users] Controlling application windows

[Cyrille M. <cy...@ei...>]

Le jeudi 31 mars 2005 à 13:23 +0200, Frantisek Fuka a écrit : 
> Hello,
> 
> I am using Rox-Filer/Oroborox/Rox-Session and I'd like to use bash
> scripts to control the windows on desktop. For example I used the
> following AutoStart script to start gkrellm and move it to Workspace
> 4:
> 
> gkrellm
> sleep 5
> xprop -name "gkrellm" -f _WIN_WORKSPACE 32c -set _WIN_WORKSPACE 3
> 
> This worked until last week. Then I upgraded to latest Oroborox and it
> no longer works.
> 
> Can I do something similar with current OroboRox? I'd also like to
> move windows around using scripts and to make some windows ignored
> when cycling windows (using Alt-Tab, in my case).
> 

What you need is devil's pie :
http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie

an exemple of config for MusicBox:
   <flurb>
    <matchers>
      <matcher name="DevilsPieMatcherWindowName">
        <property name="window_title" value="MusicBox"/>
        <property name="window_role"  value="MainWindow"/>
      </matcher>
    </matchers>
    <actions>
      <action name="DevilsPieActionHide">
        <property name="skip_tasklist" value="TRUE"/>
        <property name="skip_pager"    value="TRUE"/>
      </action>
      <action name="DevilsPieActionLayer">
        <property name="above"         value="FALSE"/>
      </action>
      <action name="DevilsPieActionSetWorkspace">
        <property name="pinned"        value="TRUE"/>
      </action>
      <action name="DevilsPieActionSetGeometry">
        <property name="xoffset"       value="980"/>
        <property name="yoffset"       value="886"/>
        <property name="width"         value="300"/>
        <property name="height"        value="100"/>
      </action>
    </actions>
  </flurb>

it should resolve the gkrellm pb you have