Re: metacity behavior plugins ?

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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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