Getting and setting window size and position

[Jack]

I have three monitors running six virtual desktops, all filled with
applications some are tiled and some are floating. I'm currently writing a
script to manage them, but it's making me consider just switching to i3 :)

On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM killermoehre <killermoehre at gmx.net> wrote:

> 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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