Devil's Pie

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Window matching & acting.
http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie
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Devil's Pie is for window matching & acting just like the KDE window actions, except heinously difficult to configure.

To learn about your current-loaded windows, make a file called ~/.devilspie/debug.ds and add:

(debug)

Launch devilspie in an xterm-type window. Then run a program to see what happens. When I ran rxvt I could see this text output by devilspie:

Window Title: ' RXVT (en_US)'; Application Name: ' RXVT (en_US)'; Geometry: 743x364+588+427

Then I made a ~/.devilspie/rxvt.ds with this text:

(if (is (window_name) " RXVT (en_US)") (maximize))

I kill and then restart devilspie. Then I launch rxvt again. It's maximized automatically.

Other commands I've tried:

(if
  (is (application_name) " RXVT (en_US)")
  (begin
    (set_workspace 2)
    (maximize)
  )
)

(geometry "1x2+3+4")

Example:

(geometry "100x200+0+50")

Or you could just set either one or the other. Note that you cannot actually use these one after the other in the .ds configuration file.

(geometry "100x200")
(geometry "+0+50")

Certain types of windows won't work..

kdialog won't work with devilspie. Something to do with "wintype" except I can't get that to do anything.

Checking out the earlier version because of the dependancy on glib-2.0 >= 2.9.1

apt-get install libwnck-1_16-devel

Installed and working "fine". Too bad about the stupid scheme programming.

The --debug switch doesn't seem to work properly.
Configuration is awfully stupid. There should be a sensible language used which is parsed to be turned into that awful scheme crap. Brackets and quotes really aren't needed for human-readable configuration.