Eric Mangold wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:57:44 +1000, Josh Babcock > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How would I go about creating a window in a particular viewport? I want >> to launch a Firefox window in a particular place, but I already have a >> matched window setting that I first need to ignore. >> >> Josh > > I've thought about how to tie a process to the windows it creates before > and haven't come up with anything useful. The situation is even more > difficult in Firefox's case, because the process you launch to open the > window may in fact signal an already running Firefox process to open the > window on its behalf.
That can be prevented with the -no-remote option. > > Basically I think you're stuck with matching the window when it gets > created, and switching it to the correct viewport then. Hmmm. It would be nice if Firefox could be told to open a window with a particular title. Since I don't feel like rebuilding Firefox, I'll let that one go. Can X and Sawfish tell how old windows are? If so, perhaps it would be possibly to write a script that causes a window to appear, and then modifies the most recent window. Better yet would be to start a process and get the window id back. then you could modify the window based on the id. I think what I will do is tell Firefox to start with some odd, unique h/w dimensions and then match on those. Extremely ugly, but it should work. Josh
