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(on Wikipedia)
http://www.burtonini.com/blog/tag/devilspie.html ^[ 1 ] was http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie

Devil's Pie is for window matching & acting just like the KDE window actions, except heinously difficult to configure.

You probably want to try wmctrl instead.

• The author has apparently abandoned the project.

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• You can also use xprop to display properties.

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• The author seems to have abandoned the project. It isn't on his GitHub.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070704084903/http://wiki.foosel.net/linux/devilspie

• https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/DevilsPie ^[ 2 ] was http://live.gnome.org/DevilsPie

Devil's Pie 2

• https://github.com/gusnan/devilspie2

• http://www.nongnu.org/devilspie2/ ^[ 3 ] was http://www.gusnan.se/devilspie2/

  • http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/devilspie2.git

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• 2007-03-04 - 0.14 on (distribution not recorded)

2007-03-04 - 0.14 ∞

http://www.burtonini.com/computing/devilspie-0.14.tar.gz

Checking out the earlier version because of the dependancy on glib-2.0 >= 2.9.1

apt-get install libwnck-1_16-devel

Installed and working "fine". Too bad about the stupid Scheme programming.

• The --debug switch doesn't seem to work properly.

• Configuration is awfully stupid. There should be a sensible language used which is parsed to be turned into that awful Scheme crap. Brackets and quotes really aren't needed for human-readable configuration.

Configuration and testing ∞

To learn about your current-loaded windows, make a file called ~/.devilspie/debug.ds and add:

(debug)

Launch devilspie in a terminal emulator (like xterm). Then run a program to see what happens. When I ran rxvt I could see this text output by devilspie:

Window Title: ' RXVT (en_US)'; Application Name: ' RXVT (en_US)'; Geometry: 743x364+588+427

Then I made a ~/.devilspie/rxvt.ds with this text:

(if (is (window_name) " RXVT (en_US)") (maximize))

I kill and then restart devilspie. Then I launch rxvt again. It's maximized automatically.

Other commands I've tried:

(if
  (is (application_name) " RXVT (en_US)")
  (begin
    (set_workspace 2)
    (maximize)
  )
)

geometry:

(geometry "1x2+3+4")

1. width
2. height
3. x position from the top-left. A larger number moves the window to the right.

4. y position from the top-left. A larger number moves the window down.

Example:

(geometry "100x200+0+50")

Or you could just set either one or the other. Note that you cannot actually use these one after the other in the .ds configuration file.

(geometry "100x200")
(geometry "+0+50")

crazy exceptions:

Certain types of windows won't work..

kdialog won't work with devilspie. Something to do with "wintype" except I can't get that to do anything.

Resources ∞

• brief tutorial on devilspie s-expressions

• using devilspie to create a background terminal ^[ 4 ] was http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Background_Terminal

  • Doesn't work for me, but I get the point.