[compiz] state plugin

[Mike Dransfield]

Kresimir Kukulj wrote:
> Robert Carr wrote:
>   
>> The Compiz-scheme can function as a state plugin of sorts. It embeds
>> the Guile interpreter for the Scheme language in to a Compiz plugin
>> and provides bindings/hooks in to events.
>>
>> You can find it at http://gitweb.opencompositing.org
>> (compcomm/plugins/compiz-scheme) it has an example startup file with
>> commented snippets including state like usage and a few other
>> documentation and tutorial files.
>>
>> As to porting the original state plugin, there isn't really any
>> documentation on ... anything, though I think the winrules plugin
>> (also at gitweb.opencompositing.org) does something similar.
>>     
>
> Thanks for the info. I just looked at compiz-scheme and it seems to be 
> able to to what I want, but it may take me some time to figure scheme :)
> Looks really nice :)
>
> move-window window dx dy - Move window by dx and dy in the x and y 
> coordinates respectively.
>
> move-window-to window pos-x pos-y - Move window window to pos-x and 
> pos-y. No checking is done for viewport bounds.
>
> x,y are top left corner ? I may hardcode coordinates for each desktop. 
> Is there a way to know how big desktop is and how many sides my cube 
> plugin uses so I could divide that and get start coordinates of each 
> viewport ?
>
> Also, is there a way to remove window decoration from a specific window 
> ? Cant find it in you docs.
>   

This is already built into the decoration plugin.

You can set the decoration/allscreens/decoration_match to
any valid window match string.  For example to not have
borders on all firefox windows then you should set it to

any & !class=Firefox-bin

For more information on window matching see here:

http://forum.compiz.org/viewtopic.php?t=605

and here for the original announcement

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/compiz/2007-February/001448.html


>
>   
>> On 5/17/07, Kresimir Kukulj <madmax at iskon.hr> wrote:
>>     
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> I saw that Mike Dransfield tried to port 'state' plugin from beryl.
>>>
>>> What does it do? It should be able to place windows, based on name,
>>> class etc., to specific viewports. I recently converted to compiz window
>>> manager from WindowMaker (used it for 8 years), and I miss automatic
>>> 'pinning' of specific windows to particular workspace (or viewport in
>>> this case).
>>>
>>> Mike's old port can be found here:
>>> http://www.anykeysoftware.co.uk/compiz/plugins/state.tar.gz
>>>
>>> This is a bit old and does not use new plugin system for options
>>> (metadata). I am tyring to see if it could be tweaked to new plugin
>>> infrastructure, but it is not trivial (or at least not for me :)).
>>>
>>> Can someone point me to some documentation so I could port this.
>>> Or is this functionality already planned for compiz (or maybe someone
>>> already has functonal plugin?).
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> 	Kresimir
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kresimir Kukulj                      madmax at iskon.hr
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