[SOLVED] wmaker: launching script using specific virtual desktop and placement

RudyMartin · 01-29-2024, 06:34 AM

hi all

at work I use WindowMaker with 10 virtual desktops on a dual display setup.
Since I manage serveral virtual machines on the data center, I usually open up several scripts, using konsole, like this:

Code:

rudy@rudy:~/bin/logs/restapi$ cat access.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo /var/log/messages restapi access
ssh root@repodev tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log | grep "\" 200 " -v

from WMaker menu I configured several menu entries which looks like this:

Code:

konsole -e /home/rudy/bin/logs/restapi/access.sh

what I would like to know (since google fails me on this one, giving me entries about Micro$oft Windows) if it would be possible to run the script but forcing wmaker to place it under specific desktop on specific location and size.

The real final objective is to be able to launch all those scripts at login.

thanks

allend · 01-29-2024, 08:09 PM

Interesting that you are using konsole that will drag in extra KDE dependencies rather than something more lightweight like xterm.

Have you tried setting up the displays as you want, then using the right mouse click menu option of Workspace -> Save Session? If you close wmaker and restart, you should see the displays as you want.

If that works OK, you could then close wmaker and manually edit the ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMState file to add in your desired scripts. Make sure to save a working copy first, as introducing syntax errors is easy to do and likely to cause major breakage.

RudyMartin · 01-30-2024, 06:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by allend

Interesting that you are using konsole that will drag in extra KDE dependencies rather than something more lightweight like xterm.

Have you tried setting up the displays as you want, then using the right mouse click menu option of Workspace -> Save Session? If you close wmaker and restart, you should see the displays as you want.

If that works OK, you could then close wmaker and manually edit the ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMState file to add in your desired scripts. Make sure to save a working copy first, as introducing syntax errors is easy to do and likely to cause major breakage.

you are right about KDE. I use konsole because it has some details like copy/paste that I do not know if I can do with other terminals (copy/paste is the first thing that pop up from mind, but might be others). I will try other terminals again and see what happens.

nice suggestion about sessions. Still I found a AI generated solution which involves using xdotool.

tldr version:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# Launch Konsole
konsole &

# Wait for a short while to ensure the window appears
sleep 2

# Get the window ID of the Konsole window
WINDOW_ID=$(xdotool search --name "Konsole")

# Move the window to a specific position
xdotool windowmove $WINDOW_ID 100 100

of course I have a lot of work to do to adapt this to what I want, but it is a starting point.

thanks.