Re: creating windows from rep

["Eric Mangold" <teratorn world-net net>]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 23:22:02 +1000, Josh Babcock <jbabcock atlantech net>  
wrote:

> Eric Mangold wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:57:44 +1000, Josh Babcock
> > <jbabcock atlantech net> wrote:
> >
> > > How would I go about creating a window in a particular viewport? I want
> > > to launch a Firefox window in a particular place, but I already have a
> > > matched window setting that I first need to ignore.
> > >
> > > Josh
> >
> > I've thought about how to tie a process to the windows it creates before
> > and haven't come up with anything useful. The situation is even more
> > difficult in Firefox's case, because the process you launch to open the
> > window may in fact signal an already running Firefox process to open the
> > window on its behalf.
>
> That can be prevented with the -no-remote option.
>
> > Basically I think you're stuck with matching the window when it gets
> > created, and switching it to the correct viewport then.
>
>
> Hmmm. It would be nice if Firefox could be told to open a window with a
> particular title. Since I don't feel like rebuilding Firefox, I'll let
> that one go.
>
> Can X and Sawfish tell how old windows are? If so, perhaps it would be
> possibly to write a script that causes a window to appear, and then
> modifies the most recent window.

I don't think you can tell how old windows are, but when you launch Firefox
you can just set some state and match the *next* window to be created.

> Better yet would be to start a process
> and get the window id back. then you could modify the window based on
> the id.
>
> I think what I will do is tell Firefox to start with some odd, unique
> h/w dimensions and then match on those. Extremely ugly, but it should  
> work.
>
> Josh

Good luck!
--
Eric Mangold