On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 03:22, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@xxxxxxx> wrote: > As Anne says, kwin rules can be used to force a specific position, and I > use exactly that functionality quite a lot (REALLY quite a lot!) myself, > but they apply any time a window matches the rule. > > There's at least two further solutions that allow sometimes-matching, one > via hotkey, but it'll involve a bit of bash scripting or similar, and one > that effectively lets you decide at launch time. > > > 1) The launch-time one works with kde apps and should work with non-kde > qt apps, but won't necessarily work with all X-based apps and windows. > It depends on kde's --caption option or qt's --title option (also see qt's > --name option and kde's --geometry option), as seen in for example > konsole's --help-all output when run /in/ konsole. > > The idea is to set a unique window title that can be matched by a kwin > window rule that ignores the application when run normally, that is, > without the title setting option. > > I use this here to set special rules for a konsole window when it's > invoked to run my multi-key hotkey bash scripts.[1] Just under that rule > in kwin's window rules list, is another one for konsole in general, so > the first rule catches the specific case, while the general case falls > thru to the second rule. > > As I mentioned above, for kde apps specifically, there's also the > --geometry option, that sets the X geometry. However, depending on your > kwin config (smart window placement, etc), you may still need a kwin > window rule to ignore smart-placement or whatever the general policy is > and obey the specified geometry, and the non-kde app likely doesn't have > such an option anyway, so the above idea, setting the title specifically > and using that as a kwin window rules match, then simply setting window > size and placement in that window rule, probably makes more sense. > > > 2) The scriptable solution makes use of a very handy little app called > wmctrl. You can call wmctrl with appropriate options to move and/or > resize to specific coordinates, close or move to other desktops various > already open windows, in a real-time manner. After installation, read > its manpage for instructions on how to invoke it to do what you want > done. From there, a hotkey invoked relocate/resize is a simple few lines > of bash script and a hotkey set in kde settings, common..., shortcuts..., > custom shortcuts, away. =:^) > > Of course you could also use wmctrl as a launch-time solution, by simply > using a wrapper script that launches the app, sleeps a few seconds if > necessary to let the window show up, then runs wmctrl on it to locate and > size it as desired. > > > Meanwhile, this is of course exactly the sort of thing that kde > activities are eventually supposed to manage, but as the two solutions > above demonstrate, power users have been doing this sort of thing for > quite some time already, so all activities will do is put a bit nicer GUI > on what they've already been doing and expose the same functionality to > ordinary users, or at least those not quite so high up the power user > scale as those using existing solutions. But while I've not actually > tested activities in 4.8, I doubt they're there yet, and even when they > get there, it'll likely be a tradeoff between limited functionality > exposed to a wider userbase, and the more powerful functionality that has > been available to the power user, for some time to come. > > --- > [1] When kde4 broke multi-key hotkeys that worked just fine in kde3, I > rolled my own solution. I'm not a C/C++ or even python/perl coder, only > a bash scriptor, so I coded the script in bash and run it in a special > konsole window with its own kwin window rules. It's not fancy, but it > does a rather impressive job, considering it's all bash and kwin rules, > picking up where all kde4 left me was broken pieces of a solution that > USED to work! A kde single-key hotkey still launches my script tho > there's independent hotkey solutions out there too, if kde decides to > break that as well. My script in turn takes a category and then an > action selection key, to launch anything I use often enough to have > programmed a sequence for in a total of three individual key presses. > For example, to open my browser of choice to bank's secure login site is > launcher, n, b. Launcher is an "extra" key available on my inet/media > keyboard, n=net (category), b=bank (individual task in the selected > category). > Thanks, Duncan! The wmctrl does seem to be what I am looking for. I installed it and tried playing with it a bit, but I could not get it do affect any windows. I'll start googling around as I am certain that I am missing some thing obvious. I would love to see your scripted hotkeys bash file. I use Krunner very heavily, and your solution might be even more efficient. Have a great week! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. 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