interesting past 4 hours...
David Kirchner
dpk at dpk.net
Sat Oct 15 18:32:11 PDT 2005
On 10/15/05, Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:
> You know, what I'd like my wm to be able to do is
> set <whatever> app (say xload)
>
> /usr/bin/nice -n -17 xload -g 50x90+0+0 &
>
> so that I'll be able to nice it down to some low value,
> control the placing and size of the app, and so on.
> I assume that Gnome/KDE (and their light versions)
> have some ~user/.* XML files where things are tuned,
> but grep -r .* hasn't found anything ...
> Is there/Where is the files that list the apps so that
> I can set up things and season-to-my-tastes?
>
> For me, functioality is more imortant than how "pretty"
> things look.
The bizarrely-named 'devilspie' will handle window location, sizing,
pinning, and the default workspace assignment (in case you don't want
it pinned). It doesn't handle nicing, however.
It works fine with devilspie. I expect it will work OK with KDE or twm too.
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