devilspie2

window matching utility

You can use devilspie2 to open windows on specific desktops, define placement, and window features like maximized, or fullscreen. You can setup complex window layouts this way even create a "per window" tiling manager if you want. Export your layouts and you can script or hotkey the launch and arrangement of your windows.

This is a basic debug script to show window output for devilspie2 mkdir -p ~/.config/devilspie2

echo "debug_print( "Window Name: "..    get_window_name());
debug_print( "Application Name: "..get_application_name())" > .config/devilspie2/devilspie2.lua

There is a more complete debug bellow that gives very verbose output and is my preferred method when gathering window info.

run as systemd user service

mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user/

echo "[Unit]
Description=Devilspie2 window matching utility

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/devilspie2

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target" > ~/.config/systemd/user/devilspie2.service

systemctl --user enable devilspie2 systemctl --user start devilspie2

Complete Debug

debug_print( "get_window_name:                      " .. get_window_name())
debug_print( "get_application_name:                 " .. get_application_name())
debug_print( "get_window_geometry:                  " .. get_window_geometry())
debug_print( "get_window_client_geometry:           " .. get_window_client_geometry())
debug_print( "get_window_type:                      " .. get_window_type())
debug_print( "get_class_instance_name:              " .. get_class_instance_name())
debug_print( "get_window_role:                      " .. get_window_role())
debug_print( "get_window_xid:                       " .. get_window_xid())
debug_print( "get_window_class:                     " .. get_window_class())
debug_print( "get_workspace_count:                  " .. get_workspace_count())
screen_x, screen_y = get_screen_geometry()
debug_print( "get_screen_geometry                   " .. screen_x .. "x" .. screen_y )
window_x, window_y, window_w, window_h = xywh()
debug_print( "xywh:                                 " .. window_x .. "," .. window_y .."+" .. window_w .. "+" .. window_h )
-- debug_print( "get_screen_geometry:                  " .. get_screen_geometry())
-- debug_print( "get_window_has_name:                  " .. get_window_has_name())
-- debug_print( "get_window_is_maximized:              " .. get_window_is_maximized())
-- debug_print( "get_window_is_maximized_vertically:   " .. get_window_is_maximized_vertically())
-- debug_print( "get_window_is_maximized_horizontally: " .. get_window_is_maximized_horizontally())
-- debug_print( "get_window_property:                  " .. get_window_property())
-- debug_print( "get_window_fullscreen:                " .. get_window_fullscreen())
debug_print( "\n" )

Start profiling applications devilspie2 --folder ~/.config/devilspie2/ --debug