Devil's Pie can be configured to detect windows as they are created, and match the window to a set of rules. If the window matches the rules, it can perform a series of actions on that window. For example, I can make all windows created by X-Chat appear on all workspaces, and the main Gkrellm1 window does not appear in the pager or task list.

Download

Latest download is devilspie-0.22.tar.gz.

Bug Reporting

You can report bugs in Devil's Pie in the GNOME Bugzilla.

• Fix decorate/undecorate with OpenBox (thanks Rafał Mużyło)
• Fix typos in man page (Loïc Minier)

Downloads are in the usual place.

• Add change_workspace action (#453464, thanks Adam Więckowski)
• Add decorate action (#449634, thanks Galkin Vasily)
• Add quit action (thanks Leon Zhang)
• Handle wnck_screen_get_active_workspace() failing (#343546)

Downloads are in the usual place.

Now if only people would stop using a hack I wrote several years ago and fix the real problems...

NP: The Last Flowers from the Darkness, Mark Van Hoen

However, there's this really cool thing called Devil's Pie, which is an extra little thing you run. It just plugs in and you can completely script the way Metacity works, using Lisp. Much in the same way you could with Sawfish, except for being a plugin and being directly focused on scripting the window manager. You can do amazing stuff. The work on that has actually been sponsored by Pixar.

Thanks Jeff! Any more of this and people will start thinking I'm paying you...

NP: Flight 602, Aim

• Fix parsing (Lars Damerow)
• Fix test suite

Downloads are in the usual place.

• Fix window_workspace (Andrew Yates)

Downloads are in the usual place.

• Handle multiple expressions in a file (Lars Damerow)
• Add spawn_sync and spawn_async actions to start processes (David Decotigny)
• Add println, str, hex, and expand print (DD)
• Add window_xid matcher (DD)

Downloads are in the usual place.

• Don't use wnck_window_set_geometry as it was introduced in GNOME 2.16 (#381233).

Downloads are in the usual place.

• Add window_property matcher (Nigel Tao)
• Add set_viewport action (James Willcox)
• Add opacity action (Pavel Palat)
• Add sticky action (Steve Leung)
• Add unmaximise action (Alex Menk)
• Add unminimise action (Richard Neill)
• Fix negative offsets in geometry action (Vincent Ho, Midred)

Downloads are in the usual place.

...We haven't been talking about some of the really cool stuff you can do with gnome. Things like Devil's Pie or Brightside, which make the window manager work in totally different ways: they take Metacity which is a very conservative, very simple, it just manages your windows kind of window manager, and they turn it into something which does edge flipping and all kinds of cool stuff, a programmable window environment, those kind of things.

Yay Jeff!

NP: Last.fm Neighbour Radio

• Depend on GLib 2.9.1 onwards

Downloads are in the usual place.

• Fix compile with GLib 2.10

Downloads are in the usual place.

NP: Groove Salad, SomaFM

NP: Dial 'M' For Monkey, Bonobo

NP: A Rush Of Blood The The Head, Coldplay

• Add Set Geometry (Guido Boehm)
• Fix Set Window Type (Stefan van der Haven)
• Make Pin work as expected (Jean-Yves Lefort)
• Append new expressions, not prepend (Lars Damerow)
• Fix typos in README (Larry Virden)

Downloads are in the usual place.

• Total rewrite.
• No, really. A complete rewrite, no file left untouched. Many thanks to Pixar Animation Studios for sponsoring this work.
• Use s-expressions instead of XML as the configuration file format, allowing matches to be combined in new and exciting ways with (and) (or) and (not) operators.
• Read configuration from both the users home directory and /etc, allowing centralised configuration.
• Add the beginnings of a test suite.

Downloads are in the usual place. I'll have Debian packages uploaded shortly I expect.

Thanks again to Pixar, for without their kindness this release would never have happened.

• Quit if no flurbs were loaded
• Use GOption instead of popt
• Major code cleanup

Downloads are in the usual place.

Thanks to a little help from a very nice Devil's Pie user, expect another release tomorrow. Brace yourself, it's going to be surprising!

• Add an action to shade windows by Anonymous. I didn't write it but I've lost the mail the patch came in...
• Fix the window type action
• Fix the execute action
• Check for xsltproc in configure, as it's required

Downloads are in the usual place. I'll have Debian Sid packages uploading shortly.

• Re-implement the required private wnck functions (Crispin Flowerday)
• Add min/max hints to the opacity action property
• Display the min/max hints in the generated documentation

Downloads are in the usual place. I'll have Debian Sid and/or Ubuntu Hoary packages shortly.

• Bring back --apply-to-existing, so you can work on existing windows
• Add maximized_horizontally and _vertically to the resize action (John Russell)
• Add an execute action (John Russell)
• Add an opacity setting action (Guido Boehm)
• Generate decent matcher/action documentation at build-time from the source
• Check that regular expressions parsed correctly, fixing a common bug
• Less compile warnings

Downloads are in the usual place, a tarball is here, Debian packages here, and will be in unstable tomorrow.

• Fix the fullscreen action
• Set the Motif hint when setting the decoration hint (Vaclav Lorenc)

Downloads are in the usual place, a tarball is here. Debian packages being uploaded to burtonini.com/debian now and will be in Debian... shortly. The Sarge freeze will affect this, of course.

Downloads are in the usual place, a tarball is here.

• Add an action to set the geometry of a window, by Henrik Brix Andersen.

Downloads are in the usual place, a tarball is here. Debian packages being uploaded shortly.

NP: Keep It Unreal, Mr Scruff

• Add an action to set the window type atom (Olivier Andrieu)
• Add an action to set the decorate window hint in OpenBox (Vaclav Lorenc)
• Watch all screens for events, instead of just the default

Downloads are in the usual place, a tarball is here. Debian packages will be prepared tomorrow, I'm going to bed now. The tarball has a spec file, so rpmbuild should work.

• Don't crash when a window role is null in various places (Rob Mayoff)
• Don't crash on unknown properties (RM)
• Being very slow at applying patches (me)

Downloads are in the usual place, a tarball is here.

• Vastly improved documentation (Gaetan de Menten)
• Add a "fullscreen" property (requires libwnck 2.3.something)
• Many bug fixes (Patrick Aussems)

Downloads are in the usual place, a tarball is here. A Debian package has been uploaded into Sid, hopefully it will be accepted soon. The tarball has a spec file, so rpmbuild -tb should work.

In this last week I have received not one but two different RPM spec files for it, so I thought I best get a release with them in out before I get more!

Thanks to Patrick Aussems for the regexp code, and Michael Raab/Lars R. Damerow for the RPM spec files.

Downloads are in the usual place, a tarball is here and Debian packages are available. The tarball has a spec file, so rpmbuild -tb should work.

Debian packages are also available from my apt-get-able repository, at http://www.burtonini.com/debian/.