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- 1. Pre-configuring window-specific settings
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- 1. Pre-configuring window-specific settings
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- Window-specific settings is a feature of KWin that allows specifying some
- settings only for a specific window or windows. See the Window-specific
- settings section in the KWin configuration and the Special settings
- menu entries in Alt+F3/Advanced menu.
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- One aspect of window-specific settings is the ability to specify various
- workarounds for (usually broken) applications that otherwise don't work
- properly with KWin. This section describes how to create additional
- window-specific settings that will be automatically used by all users
- without any need of manual configuration.
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- Example case:
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- Application FooBar does not specify any maximum size for its main window,
- but when resized to larger size than 1600x1200 it crashes because of a bug.
- Manual configuration of a window-specific setting that avoids this problem
- is opening and activating this window, selecting
- Alt+F3/Advanced/Special window settings, activating tab Workarounds, enabling
- setting Maximum size, changing it to Force and entering "1600,1200" as
- the maximum size, which will make KWin force this size as the maximum size.
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- To create such window-specific setting automatically without a need of doing
- it manually for every user (for example when doing a large deployment), follow
- these steps:
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- - Back up your $KDEHOME/share/config/kwinrulesrc ($KDEHOME usually being $HOME/.kde)
- and remove it
- - Run 'dcop kwin default reconfigure'
- - Create manually all window-specific settings that should be included (see above)
- - When done, check in Window-specific settings configuration module
- (Alt+F3/Configure window behavior/Window-specific settings) that all rules are
- included
- - Create a copy of $KDEHOME/share/config/kwinrulesrc and restore the original one
- - Rename the copy (i.e. the newly created kwinrulesrc) to have its unique name
- (e.g. foobar_fix_maxsize in this example case)
- - Be careful with manual modifications of the file, especially make sure the count=
- field in the [General] group is updated if needed
- - Create a file for kconfig_update like this (named kwin_foobar_fix_maxsize.upd
- in this example):
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- # kwin_foobar_fix_maxsize.upd start #
- Id=foobar_fix_maxsize
- File=kwinrules_update
- Group=Dummy
- Options=overwrite
- ScriptArguments=foobar_fix_maxsize
- Script=kwin_update_default_rules
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- # kwin_foobar_fix_maxsize.upd end #
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- - The kconfig_file (kwin_foobar_fix_maxsize.upd) is to be placed
- in $KDEDIR/share/apps/kconf_update/
- - The file with the window-specific settings (foobar_fix_maxsize) is to be placed
- in $KDEDIR/share/apps/kwin/default_rules/
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- All KDE user accounts should have these new window-specific settings added
- automatically during next KDE startup (or within few seconds if they are active).
- They can be checked again in the Window-specific settings configuration module of KWin.
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