Re: Preserved Window Placement

[Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>]

On Wednesday, 24 October 2012 at 00:13, Luis Menina wrote:
> > > Do you know the "geometry" option in X11?
> > > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_X11/Starting_Programs#Specifying_window_geometry
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks for the link. Seems a bit backwards that I would have to do this
> > via each program's launch command, but at least it's an option. Course,
> > in Gnome 2 this would have been easier to create custom launchers....
> > Not sure how to go about doing that in Gnome Shell.
> 
> Maybe devil's pie still works with Mutter ?
> http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie

Devil's Pie works with Mutter, but it doesn't have any way to save and restore sizes without specifying them directly.

You could try Devil's Pie 2 which has a proper scripting engine at the core, so you could probably write a save/restore script that doesn't need explicit sizing.  You'll then see how hard this is to do properly.

Ross