Re: Feature: window policies (defaults and override per window/clients)

"Cottrell, Allin" <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Oct 2022 11:02:55 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfce.user,gmane.comp.desktop.xfce.devel.version4
Message-ID <CA+BOgODyP-W2jjzqKV=C=McSF87OZzx0EEhiPoQkgawVZi_WKQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 10:42 AM Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> I'd like to announce a new feature for Xfwm4 that I've implemented
> recently: window policies.
>
> Rationale: in some cases one wants to override default behavours for
> specific clients.
>
> For example, you want some application to always appear at on a specific
> position (maybe a separate monitor). Another neat example is enforcing
> borders around windows that usually don't have any. [...]

This sounds good! Would this include specifying the virtual desktop on
which a program's window should appear? If so I could retire
devilspie2, which I'm currently using to achieve that effect; I'd be
happy to hand that off to Xfwm4.

--
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University
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