Getting and setting window size and position

[killermoehre]

Am Mittwoch, dem 03.09.2025 um 10:17 +0300 schrieb Jack:
> Unfortunately, **built-in commands cannot be used** because after using them, the window size can no longer be changed programmatically (ie. from the scripts). This is because if you switch to another desktop and then return, the window manager no longer correctly remembers the modified window sizes. This is precisely why I'm creating my own script for this purpose.

A really long time ago I wrote https://github.com/killermoehre/window-gridder for this purpose, but abondend it, because Xfwm4 hat inbuild what I need and it has problems with client side decorations.

You can use it at a starting point.

But IMHO it sounds like you want more of a tiling WM and not a floating one, right? Xfce allows to simply *replace* the current WM with another one. I wrote https://wiki.xfce.org/howto/other_window_manager for this.
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