terminals show up anywhere.

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 09:35:35PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 09:50 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote: 
> > Gentlemen,
> > 
> > This isn't a huge issue,  but someone might have a comment anyway: So 
> > the 'sessions' bug--when it happens what I've taken to doing is having a 
> > backup session with my essential stuff open where I like it. I just copy 
> > that over the files in .cache/sessions and it works fine.  However, part 
> > of this 'default session' is having five Terminals open-- 0 and 1 on 
> > left monitor 2 and 3 in the center, and 4 on the right monitor.  When I 
> > restore my default, I get all five Terminals, but their numbers are all 
> > mixed up.  I get used to having them where I expect them to be, so this 
> > is a bit of a nuisance.  Can anything be done?
> > Come to think of it Opera and Thunderbird tend to move themselves around 
> > as well, but that doesn't bother me.
> 
> Devil's Pie... devilspie?
> 
> Debian English Description:
> 
> Description-en: find windows and perform actions on them
> This tool will find windows as they are created and perform actions
> on them, such as resizing, moving to another workspace, or pinning
> them to all workspaces.
> 
> Homepage: http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie
> 
> 
> Those are just a few things it does.
> 
Yes, it *can* sort of do this but it's not perfect by any means.  I used
it for a while and then got fed up with its shortcomings and I now use
wmctrl which works much more the way I want.  Using wmctrl does mean
that one has to do a bit of waiting for windows to appear before placing
them though.

-- 
Chris Green