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Bug 70515 - "Grab" button for "position" in matched windows configurator
"Grab" button for "position" in matched windows configurator
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: Sawfish
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Config Tool
pre-1.3.x
Other other
: Low enhancement
: 1.5.x
Assigned To: John Harper
John Harper
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-02-04 16:40 UTC by Christian Marillat
Modified: 2009-08-16 15:13 UTC
See Also:
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Description Christian Marillat 2002-02-04 16:40:00 UTC 
Hi,

I often want to make a certain class of window appear in a certain place.
Matched windows are the right way to do this. However, it is painful to
find exactly where the window is currently located and then enter it into
the fields of the configurator. The dialog for configuring matchers has
"Grab" buttons for things like "Class" and "Icon Name"; I feel it should
have similar buttons that would capture things like Position, Dimension,
and Depth.
Comment 1 John Harper 2002-04-23 07:06:05 UTC 
would need a lot of changes and client/server integration, probably
won't happen
Comment 2 Tom 2004-11-02 09:14:58 UTC 
isn't it possible to do something like "execute xwininfo and parse its output
when the user wants to grab a window position"?