Start and resize applications
- Python 3.x
- wmctrl
sudo apt install wmctrl
The desktop-bootstrap.py accepts the following arguments:
- command: command to open an application, (e.g, firefox, google-chrome)
- application name: name of application, this argument is used to check with
wmctrlif application has started, some applications has the name different from the command (e.g, Google Chrome (google-chrome)). - Axios x: Which point of axios y the application will be posiotioned.
- Axios y: Which point of axios y the application will be posiotioned.
- Window width: To which width the application will be resized.
- Window height: To which height the application will be resized.
- -- file: You can use a configuration file and pass it with this argument instead of execute
desktop-bootstrap.pyfile several times.
Each line receives the same arguments from command line::
<command> <Application name> <X Axios> <Y Axios> <Window width> <Window height>
Example of a configuration file:
insomnia insomnia 1920 0 1720 1440
dbeaver dbeaver 3640 0 1720 1440
usr/bin/python3.8 google-chrome google 5360 0 1720 1410 https://github.com/ricardo93borges https://dev.to/ricardo93borges
The arguments must be in this order:
/usr/bin/python3.8 <command> <Application name> <X Axios> <Y Axios> <Window width> <Window height>
Or:
/usr/bin/python3.8 --file <path/to/configuration/file>
Using all arguments in the command line:
insomnia insomnia 1920 0 1720 1440
Some browsers accepts as argument the websites it will open when start up, each website will be open in a different tab, for example
/usr/bin/python3.8 google-chrome google 5360 0 1720 1410 https://github.com/ricardo93borges https://dev.to/ricardo93borges
Using a configuration file:
/usr/bin/python3.8 /path/to/desktop-bootstrap.py --file /path/to/config-sample.txt
The file desktop-bootstrap.sh can be executed when a keyboard shortcut is used, the keyboard shortcut setup depends on your OS.