dsalt/devilspie2

Devilspie2 is a window matching utility, allowing the user to perform scripted actions on windows as they are opened and closed.

devilspie2's Issues

Why is there no blur?

manjaro kde

add get_window_strut()

seems useful to have a matching getter for the existing setter "set_window_strut()"

(trying to tag this as a feature request ... obviously it's not a bug)

documentation: homepage, manual, man page, readme

https://www.nongnu.org/devilspie2/ says:

Also see the latest version of the complete README and the manual (WIP).

Manual link is 404. Attempted to find via site search but unsuccessful.

man devilspie2 is quite brief and suggests

More details in /usr/share/doc/devilspie2/README.
...
Script Commands
See the README or the manual linked from the homepage for a detailed description of the commands recognized by the Lua script.

The README is pretty extensive. Is there in fact another document? If yes then is it possible to make it available somewhere? Website should be update to fix the link or remove the reference from website and man page.

In either case I suggest adding the URL of the homepage to the man page for clarity. It is found at the bottom of the README but a person may not notice it.

Perhaps it would be worthwhile to put the README text directly into the man page since that is the standard location.

Aborted at function fopen()

Maybe someone here would be kind enough to take a look at this
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?62848

Pointers would be much appreciated!

Makefile race condition

It's very unlikely, but got an automated report at https://bugs.gentoo.org/881473 where obj/ dir hadn't been created yet given using $(BIN)/$(NAME): $(OBJ) $(OBJECTS) rather than $(OBJECTS): $(OBJ) or so, and order isn't guaranteed.

Assembler messages:
Fatal error: can't create obj/devilspie2.o: No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:101: obj/devilspie2.o] Error 1 shuffle=2250841411

May or may not be able to reproduce if use GNU make-4.4 and its new shuffle option with the same seed:

GNUMAKEFLAGS="--shuffle=2250841411" make

Window frame extent? [how do i set the window position below the taskbar?]

missing error.h in src/script_functions.c

after installing the necessary additional packages to build on Oracle Linux 8, I find the make fails with:

src/script_functions.c:2312:7: note: ‘errno’ is defined in header ‘<errno.h>’; did you forget to ‘#include <errno.h>’?

After #include errno.h in the file, the make works.

Can't decorate initially-undecorated windows

Hello,

decorate_window() doesn't work on windows that are initially undecorated (such as Microsoft Teams). undecorate/decorate works fine on windows launched with decorations tho.

This problem has been observed using the Xfwm4 window manager.

Also see here.

Thanks!

Received a timestamp of 0; window activation may not function properly

Any APIs that use GDK_CURRENT_TIME trigger a scaring warning:

Wnck-WARNING **: ...: Received a timestamp of 0; window activation may not function properly.

AFAIU GDK_CURRENT_TIME only works inside of GDK. There is not a single reference inside the libwnck codebase.

EmmyLua-style function type definitions

See https://github.com/orgs/EmmyLua/repositories and https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server/wiki/Annotations.

systemd user service file

https://bugs.debian.org/933866

It would be wonderful to have Debian ship a systemd user service file for
devilspie2. I've searched the internet a bit and know a bit about systemd, but
don't know the exact configurations for said service file. My current attempts
are failing. If I get it to work, I'll follow-up to this bug report.

It'd be great to be able to:

systemctl --user enable devilspie2
systemctl --user start devilspie2

and have it work out of the box.

Being a Devuan user, I don't use systemd myself, so I'm in no position to add this. (I currently use Xfce4's application autostart to run devilspie2 on login.)

error-message-rework branch: translation updates needed

I'd like at least some translations updated before I merge this branch into master.

set_on_back()

Hi,
I'm looking for a method to set a new window at the back instead of the top
I've seen the method "set_on_top()", is it possible to have "set_on_back()"?
Thanks,
Eric

wayland

i assume there is NO way to make devilspie2 work under wayland, window placement etc?

[Question] geometry and maximization

Hello, thanks for this project!

I'm using it to position and create all the windows in the second screen, which in my case means: if x < 1920 then add 1920

The problem I'm having is that: if I unmaximize a window it goes back to the first screen, is there any property to change also the x of the "normal" geometry of maximized windows? Or some other way?

Thanks in advance

name = get_window_name()
type = get_window_type()
if (type ~= "WINDOW_TYPE_DESKTOP") then
    print("Name: "..name)
    print("Type: "..type)
    x, y, width, height = get_window_geometry()
    print("X: "..x..", Y: "..y..", width: "..width..", height: "..height)
    if (x < 1920) then
        -- set_window_position(x + 1920, y)
        -- set_window_geometry(x + 1920, y, width, height)
        set_window_geometry2(x + 1920, y, width, height)
    end
end

*edit:

As a workaround for the moment I take off the maximization, change x and then restore it, it seems to work, I'd still be interested if there are cleaner/easier solutions

    max = get_window_is_maximized()
    maxw = get_window_is_maximized_horizontally()
    maxh = get_window_is_maximized_vertically()
    if max or maxw or maxh then
        unmaximize()
    end

    if max then
        maximize()
    else
        if maxw then
            maximize_horizontally()
        end
        if maxh then
            maximize_vertically()
        end
    end

maximize* commands don't work for Emacs

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1033471 for the bug