Devil's Pie in Linux Format

Jeff Waugh talks about Devil's Pie in his interview with Linux Format (issue 87).

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...

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16:50 Thursday, 08 Feb 2007 [#] [computers/devilspie] (4 comments)

Posted by daniels at Thu Feb 8 17:56:55 2007:
Walking home through the park.
Posted by Chris at Fri Feb 9 06:54:44 2007:
Well, because of that interview I started looking at Devil's Pie seriously. And it is amazing. It got me thinking though... would it be possible to make Devil's Pie aware of other events like a window being focused/unfocused?
Just an idea as I suspect that's out of the scope of  it.
Posted by Ross at Fri Feb 9 07:46:00 2007:
Yes, that should be possible... what would you like to do?
Posted by Chris at Fri Feb 9 18:29:05 2007:
Well, just a simple example: It is possible to set the opacity of a window with Devil's Pie (at least according to the manpage). On getting focus that window could be made solid again.

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