A potted account of Ross' life

Is there a reason to use devilspie more thant openbox's own mechanism?

Don't ask me, I don't use OpenBox or Devil's Pie. :)

Why is this software called Devil's Pie?

Because I was listening to a song called Devil's Pie when I wrote it.

Regardless of whether the functionality should be provided by Gnome or not, Devil's Pie is a neat piece of software, particularly if you're a Bigloo programmer like me.

However, I cannot get the window manager to follow the newly opened windows to their desktops. If I use the (focus) form I get some error messages mentioning 0 timestamps and all functionality vanishes.

Merry Christmas

does devilspie work with tiling window managers?

I have no idea, please tell me. :)

Hello all.

I just released an initial version of gdevilspie , which is a pyGTK interface to your wonderful devilspie.

It is hosted at google code :

http://code.google.com/p/gdevilspie

and has a page at gnomefiles :

http://gnomefiles.org/app.php/gDevilspie

I've never successfully gotten the opacity action to work with devilspie. For example:

( if
( and
( is ( application_name ) "Firefox" )
)
( begin
( opacity 60 )
( println "match" )
)
)

Successfully prints the 'match' line, but doesn't actually affect the transparency of the window. Composite with xcompmgr and transset is working fine, so I'm not sure where the problem is. I've been trying this under ubuntu gutsy and hardy.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

best module ever!

now if there was only an option to send windows to the background (desktop wallpaper) so you can make interesting looking wallpapers, that would be grand.

Jeremy:

It's working for me...  Could be a FireFox thing.  Here's my config for SnackAmp:

( if
( and
( contains ( window_class ) "SnackAmp" )
)
( begin
( pin )
( undecorate )
( skip_pager )
( skip_tasklist )
( opacity 75 )
( below )
( println "match" )
)
)