How To Set Default Workspace, Size and Window Effects in Gnome Comments

Rjava

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:53:25 +0000

This seems to work in metacity but not with compiz running. Any workarounds for this I would love to use it but not if I can't get it going in compiz.

Mike SZ

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:35:09 +0000

As usual, this information is outdated and wrong. This makes no sense. Preferences has been moved to be under System. And there is no "Sessions" in Preferences. You may want to add devilspie to your “Applications > Preferences > Sessions”,

Lars from Mars

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:01:33 +0000

What a pain in the butt to do what should be an automatic feature of Gnome or metacity -- by default put the windows where they were left the last time and sized likewise. Mac OS has done this since it was "NeXTSTEP" in 1990.

Martin

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:18:27 +0000

It worked, when I set System > Preferences > Apprearance > Visual Effects to None. This apparently uses the metacity window manager, who knows about different workspaces. Compiz only knows viewports. You can also try something like $metacity --replace to switch to metacity manually. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out how to get real transparency with metacity, so I have to stick to compwiz.

sainath

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:12:27 +0000

I too got the problem with set workspace and i
uninstalled compiz and tried .It says no error but it won't work.
can any one tell me how to do?

Jukka

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:23:54 +0000

This might be interesting for easier use as well:

http://code.google.com/p/gdevilspie/wiki/gDevilsp...

nueces

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:12:38 +0000

Only for the record :) http://foosel.org/linux/devilspie

Luciano

Sat, 1 Mar 2008 05:38:30 +0000

hello,

found the answer in ubuntuforums:
"because of compiz you have to use set_viewport
instead of set_workspace"

Luciano

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:57:51 +0000

Hello,

Thanks for all the great info! I've installed virualbox and devilspie. Only problem is with devlspie cause I keep getting this error and it does not move the windows to other workspaces:

** (devilspie:10241): WARNING **: Workspace number 2 does not exist

(devilspie:10241): Wnck-CRITICAL **: wnck_window_move_to_workspace: assertion `WNCK_IS_WORKSPACE (space)' failed

I did not findany solution yet on the many posts i've googled..

Any ideas please??

Torsten

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:35:22 +0000

Is it possible to restrict icons to certain workspaces as well?

Some Guy

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:48:41 +0000

The Compiz composite window manager with related window rules plug-ins also handles window matching, amongst a slew of other goodies.

anonymous

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:43:26 +0000

Heheh. KDE's had this built-in for a while. Click the window icon/menu thingy on the upper left corner of any window in KDE, then choose advanced -> special window settings, and a neat little dialog pops up. you can configure window size, which desktop to place the window, keep above/below, and just about every other option. I use this to force my pidgin buddy list to stay docked on the right and maximized vertically with the window borders hidden

Joe A

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:31:06 +0000

Can I use this to make new IM (with pidgin 2.0.2) windows not take focus? Because that would just take me another step above AIM client users :P

Jim Priest

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:52:05 +0000

Sweet! I had seen something similar that would do this in Windows - this is great -I agree - why isn't this baked into Gnome by default? Can't wait to get home and give it a go...

chi

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:44:07 +0000

I wrote down some examples [1] too a while ago. Not all of them work perfectly (like the one for gimp). Anyway, I can`t live without devilspie anymore ;-). [1] http://www.chimeric.de/snippets/linux/devilspie#e...

Niels

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:50:22 +0000

Is there anyway to set it up such that firefox 2 loads on the 2nd virtual desktop when you log in, but should you just happen to open firefox it will open on the desktop you're on?

Stephen Weeks

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:23:03 +0000

I'd just like to mention here that this functionality is built in to e17, has been for quite a while, and is easily accessible in a clicky gui config in the window menu. Just set your window up how you want it to be, click 'remember' in the window menu, and choose the attributes that you want remembered. Very nice.

Freddy Martinez

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:14:33 +0000

Anyway to do this in KDE?

Josh

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:28:01 +0000

I agree with Maxo. This is something that should already be in Gnome. I wish the Gnome developers would stop confusing "simple" with "crippled." O [douchebaggery] On another note, "devilspie" is a stupid name and asking new Linux users to edit files in vim is probably not wise. Wouldn't it make sense to have a GUI to do these tasks? I never cease to be amazed at how low a priority user interfaces are given in the Linux world. UI should be one of the first considerations in applications development for Linux, just like it is for those other operating systems. [/douchebaggery]

Maxo

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:13:33 +0000

I really like this tool as well. I think it's abilities should be built in at the OS level. Maybe an option in the right-click menu to set options for the program.