Re: Window properties - roles?

[Todd Zullinger <tmz pobox com>]

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Mariano Su�z-Alvarez wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 19:55 +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
>> On date Thursday 2006-11-30 12:04:58 -0500, Andy Harrison wrote:
>>> I'm switching from kde to gnome today.  I've figured out most
>>> everything to get things set up the way I like, but I can't figure
>>> out where window properties are configured.  In kde, I just right
>>> click on a title bar and go under the Configure Behavior option
>>> and I can do whatever I like.  Options like stay-on-top, forcing
>>> geometry, forcing to a specific desktop, disable titlebar, disable
>>> border, and being able to configure these options on a per window
>>> or per class basis.
>>> 
>>> Would someone help me out please?
>>> 
>>> Thanx!
>> 
>> That's a window manager problem, so you should check at first the
>> documentation for the window manager you're using (that is
>> defaulted to metacity, and I'm not sure it supports every feature
>> that you request)
> 
> Metacity certainly does not allow you do do that kind of things.
> The good news is, you can replace metacity with pretty much any
> other window manager which complies with the Window Manager
> Specification
> <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fwm_2dspec> (there is a
> list of window managers in that page)

You can also achieve this using Devils Pie, although not without
manually creating the config files.  See the first three hits on
google for devilspie for links to the software and some docs on how to
use it.

I also played a little with Beryl and found that in addition to the
eye-candy effects it offered, it could also graphically configure many
of these sorts of window/desktop placement tasks.

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