Hi Andre, On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Andre Klärner <[email protected]> wrote: > does anyone have an idea how to determine the maximum available window > size? I want to use that in a connect script that starts rdesktop sessions, > but rdesktop will either use a default screen size or can run fullscreen > (both not cool for tiling wm users). > > So I looked into the rdesktop manpage which mentions the special geometry > ("-g workarea") that claims to: > > "the geometry will be fetched from the extended window manager hints > property _NET_WORKAREA, from the root window." > > Anyway that won't work under awesome, so I thought about running rdesktop > via a wrapper that determines the correct maximum window size. (I use max > layout for rdp-sessions, so the screen-size minus the 1px borders and the > wibox on the top edge). > > Did somebody already do this or has an idea how to fix the workarea > geometry?
You can use awesome-client to get the workarea from awesome. See http://awesome.naquadah.org/doc/api/modules/screen.html#screen HTH, Vitor -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
