Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:32:10 -0700 From: David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com>, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: interesting past 4 hours... Message-ID: <35c231bf0510151832w314c473fp7b9e1e4995119825@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051015193523.GA29903@thought.org> References: <20051012213632.GA3888@thought.org> <ef10de9a0510141908g7a7467f9l763d512ea329e7de@mail.gmail.com> <20051015075710.GB26129@thought.org> <cb5206420510150106w5b0641ddra2ce30127d64942a@mail.gmail.com> <20051015193523.GA29903@thought.org>
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On 10/15/05, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > You know, what I'd like my wm to be able to do is > set <whatever> app (say xload) > > /usr/bin/nice -n -17 xload -g 50x90+0+0 & > > so that I'll be able to nice it down to some low value, > control the placing and size of the app, and so on. > I assume that Gnome/KDE (and their light versions) > have some ~user/.* XML files where things are tuned, > but grep -r .* hasn't found anything ... > Is there/Where is the files that list the apps so that > I can set up things and season-to-my-tastes? > > For me, functioality is more imortant than how "pretty" > things look. The bizarrely-named 'devilspie' will handle window location, sizing, pinning, and the default workspace assignment (in case you don't want it pinned). It doesn't handle nicing, however. It works fine with devilspie. I expect it will work OK with KDE or twm too.
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