A potted account of Ross' life

Great tool! Would it be possible to add a skip_window_cycle or something to prevent it from showing in the metacity cycle window functionality (alt-tab and alt-esc). E.g. I have a window that just shows me who is logged in to the system and I really don't need to focus that window at all.

No, metacity will always list all normal windows in the alt-tab list.  gdesklets don't appear in the alt-tab list as they mark themself as docks, so maybe your code should.

On the whole devilspie is a work-around for broken applications.

OK, I must live with that, then. The window I have is just an xterm with small fonts, so I have no way of controlling it, I guess.

I am planning on adding support for setting the window roles, so you could set the xterm to be a dock.  However, I have far more important things to do first, so don't expect it to be done this week.

Source in on GNOME CVS if you want to make a patch, it should only take an hour.

would it be possible to remove the windowmanager decorations from a window if it matches a rule?
i'd like all my aterm-s to open w/o wmanager decorations in openbox3

Great tool!

It would be nice if relative expressions could be used in the matchers.  I have windows that append details like the software version number which means that I need to have lots of different matchers (one for each version)

Another suggestion is to allow Maximize Vertical and Maximize Horizontal as possible actions

Last one (a dream probably) is if you could stop windows being raised when you click on them in with sloppy focus...from what I can tell this would make devilspie a must have for about half of metacity's users!

cheers

Richard

The arguments to the window/app name matches are regular expressions, so you can match "Foo .*" if you wish.

Changing metacity focus policy is impossible outside of Metacity however.

devilspie == cool

Is it possible to remove the windowmanager decorations from a window if it matches a rule?
I would like to do a borderless konsole, but it doesn't support that.

Thanks

nice important program missing the option to
turn window decoration off. Is this planned ?
(xfce4 users needs this program to get xfce3 features back).

Great tool, wow!
I use it for xine to give the long searched (windos) feature play a video "Always on top".

simply thanks

I have multiple workspaces. I add a rule in devilspie.xml to match xmms and playlist to be pinned to all workspaces. If I open XMMS without the playlist then it works fine. But once I open playlist then suddenly the XMMS window is no longer pinned.

Just thought you'd like to know.

I am seeing a problem getting devilspie 0.3.1 to move Netscape 7.x .  What I see is that when the Netscape window opens up, first the window appears in the current window, then that window disappears as devilspie moves the window - then finally and immediately the window moves back to the current workspace.  I've had reports of similar behavior by other applications.

I am trying to use devilspie 0.3.1 to remember TVTime's geometry.  I have the flurb put in correctly because I see it matching in debug mode.  I have it working with the ontop property set to true, but devilspie does not restore the geometry of the window when it opens.  Devilspie seems to resave the geometry to the default tvtime size when I reopen it.

I'm dying to get tvtime to remember the size/position/layer setting in GNOME 2.6, was hoping this could overcome that.  As I said, the ontop setting works so I know the flurb is matching correctly, but the geometry restoration doesn't work... it just resaves the geometry.  Any way to overcome that?

Great program :). I have a small problem though...

My Gnome session (using openbox3 if it makes a difference) starts up devilspie, followed by an Eterm which thanks to devilspie appears "pinned" to all desktops and not in Gnomes taskbar. This works fine but devilspie takes 2 minutes (exactly) to load before it starts working and the Eterm can be loaded. Without devilspie it takes about 10 seconds from typing my password to being logged in and everything loaded.

Running devilspie from a terminal I get the error "(devilspie:4640): Wnck-WARNING **: Unhandled action type (null)" many times. Despite the error it starts working pretty much instantly. I have the same problem with the example file that comes with the program.

I figure that the problem with Gnomes starting of programs on login is that it sees errors and waits 2 minutes before timing out and carrying on starting the rest of the programs regardless. Any idea what is causing the errors though?

Keffin -- "Unhandled action type (null)" is a warning from wnck, which does the action work talking to X and the window manager.  I suggest trying with a different window manager (devilspie is tested against metacity) and if that doesn't work, email me.

I've just switched from metacity to openbox so I could do more with key bindings/window decorations and keeping apps always on top (though I could use devilspie for the latter). I shall try reverting to metacity tomorrow and testing again to see if that is the issue, then post back to let you know.

Thanks for the quick reply :).

Hmmm... I get the same error message in metacity, except it only prints twice instead of about 20 times in openbox :S.

Hmmm... I get the same error message in metacity, except it only prints twice instead of about 20 times in openbox :S.

Ooops, sorry, I just pressed reload X(.

Great tool, thanks!

For those crying for decorating action I've hacked a small patch (it works only with openbox WM now):

http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xlorenc1/xhtml/files/devilspie-patch/

You'll be glad to know I've applied that patch and am releasing 0.4 as I type this.

Yes, I'm glad. Thanks :)

Actually I didn't think that you'll even think about mergeing my patch into main distribution, it's very kind of you... Hope it helps somebody and better patch for other WMs will be available soon.