Take charge of your window manager with WMCTRL and Devil's Pie

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 21, 2007 2:28 PM EDT
Linux.com; By Shashank Sharma
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There are literally dozens of window managers that you can use with your favorite desktop environment to get a beautiful and appealing desktop. If you want to fine-tune your window manager, here are two programs that can help you control everything from application window size to pinning an application to all workspaces to fixing a position for your application windows to resizing desktops. One, wmctrl, works with any window managers that adheres to the Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH), while Devil's Pie is a window-matching utility, which means it can configure application windows based on defined rules.

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