metacity behavior plugins ?
Thomas Thurman
tthurman at gnome.org
Thu Sep 18 17:30:28 UTC 2008
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:18:25 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> lostson wrote:
> > Thanks Rahul for the info that is the one thing I would like in
> > Metacity is a remember window position. Maybe someday.
>
> If it doesn't do what you want. go to http://bugzilla.gnome.org and file
> bug reports.
I'm happy to entertain suggestions as to how to remember window
positions. People do occasionally ask for Metacity to make the same
window appear in the same place it did last session, but then they never
seem to follow up with an explanation as to what "the same" means. This
isn't a facetious question: there is simply no good way to do this in an
automated way at present.
Clearly all windows opened by the same application aren't "the same"
window, and presumably we can't use the titlebar text either, because
you might start with a different document open in OpenOffice and still
want it to be counted as "the same" window. We might use the resource
name and class, and the role, which are provided in X for doing this
sort of thing. But in practice they'd be fairly useless because none of
the applications use them much.
Devil's Pie was written precisely to fill this gap, and it requires you
to specify the details of each window by hand.
(And on top of it all, I like the idea of a lightweight window manager,
and if we can offload some of the work onto Devil's Pie, so folk who
want it get it, and folk who don't get a bit more memory, then that
sounds like a good plan to me.)
But if you have ideas about this or anything else, I would like to hear
them.
T
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