Re: [newbie] window groups?

["Andrea Vettorello" <andrea vettorello gmail com>]

On 06 Mar 2007 00:24:59 -0500, Ian Zimmerman <itz madbat mine nu> wrote:
> Can you explain the concept of window groups in sawfish from the user
> (not Lisp programmer) perspective?  What are they good for?
>
> I'm trying to make sawfish align the various pieces of Beep Media Player
> (which for a window manager should look identical to XMMS) when it
> starts up.  If I don't do anything, the main player window seems to
> follow sawfish default policy (in my case, best fit) while the playlist
> seems to force itself centered in the workspace.  And unlike XMMS, BMP
> doesn't seem to have an option to remember its position, so even if I
> manually drag the pieces where I want them, next time it's all wrong
> again.

First of all, i suggest you to switch to Audacious if you are still
using BMP classic:
http://bmp.beep-media-player.org/index.php/BMP_Homepage  (=

If i'm not wrong, BMP remembers screen position as default, i'm sure
Audacious does it, so create a match for it and set "Place mode" to
"none".


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Andrea