Can toggle windows ALIAS be centered?

[Oat]

I use this alias for toggling between fullscreen and windowed mode.

alias +fullscreen "fullscreen_01"
alias fullscreen_01 "vid_width 768 ; vid_height 576 ; vid_fullscreen 0 ; vid_restart ; alias -fullscreen fullscreen_02"
alias fullscreen_02 "vid_width 1024 ; vid_height 768 ; vid_fullscreen 1 ; vid_restart ; alias -fullscreen fullscreen_01"

bind F9 "+fullscreen"

This bind is very useful for toggling the screen, but it's annoying to see the window mode shifted to the left hand corner. Everytime, I had to click on the screen and move it to the center to my comfort. Any idea how to make it centers of the screen automatically?

[morfar]

I don't know. But let me know when you find out.

[dIM]

You could try to use devilspie, it sets windows properties as they are created, maybe it triggers on window state changes too.

[Oat]

devilspie are already running on my Ubuntu 7.10

I don't know how to use it, it's running in the background

[dIM]

Actually basic devilspie functionality is sufficient:

- create a file "nex.ds" in "~/devilspie/" (maybe you have to create that dir)
- if you are _not_ using Compiz (I believe it is just called desktop effects in Ubuntu) nex.ds may look like this:

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(if
    (matches (window_class) "nexuiz.*")
    (center)
)

- else:

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(if
    (matches (window_class) "nexuiz.*")
    (geometry "+300+400")
)

The latter solution works in any case but you have to sort out the offset so the window ends up centered yourself.
Have a look here for more information on devilspie.

[morfar]

Works for me. Thanks.

[Oat]

Works for me too thanks!

Although I have 2 workspaces, therefore (center) shifted the Nexuiz to central of both workspaces thus only see half of it on the right - switching to other workspace will result in seeing nexuiz on the left

So i had to adjust my geometry.

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(if
(matches(window_class)"nexuiz*")
(geometry "+130+100")
)


Oh and I should mention this. You need to restart X for it to take effect (CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE)

Thanks

[dIM]

No need to restart the X-server, just restarting devilspie so it can parse the new expression file will suffice