Attached to this post you will find two of the pictures I took that show how the movie windows look when Devil’s Pie is applied. Sorry that they are a little bit grainy as they were taken with my iPhone (no flash) in a darkened room.
You can find the Devil’s Pie application in many distributions. For Debian, Ubuntu and other .deb based distributions, you may install using:
apt-get install devilspie
For Red Hat, Fedora, OpenSuSE and other .rpm based distributions:
yum install devilspie
Find the source code and revision history for Devil’s Pie here:
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http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie
Find the GTK GUI configuration tools here:
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http://code.google.com/p/gdevilspie
You may run Devil’s Pie at the command line, but the recommended way is to put it as a startup application. In Ubuntu, use the System menu, go to Preferences and then Startup Applications. Use /usr/bin/devilspie as the application. Call it something meaningful.
Here is the s-expression code for my xmbc.ds file which is located on my system in /etc/devilspie. You can also use ~/.devilspie as a directory for your .ds files if you just want them to work for your specific login.
/etc/devilspie/xmbc.ds:
(if (contans (application_name) "xbmc") (geometry 1180x720+49+49) (undecorate) ) )
There are many other options you can specify in Devil’s Pie. You can have any number of combinations based on single applications, or you can use a globalized configuration if you have a .ds file which excludes (if) statements.
Other Devil’s Pie Options
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(center) - Center a window in your desktop
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(focus) - Give a window focus upon initial draw
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(below) - Open a window below other windows
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(fullscreen) - Make a window fullscreen
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(opacity x) - Set opacity to x (0 - 100)
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(pin) - Pin a window to all workspaces
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(set_workspace x) - Open window on workspace x
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(maximize) - Maximize
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(minimize) - Minimize
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(debug) - Enable debugging
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