Using Xfce4 with Devilspie2
Thu, 01 Jan 2026 10:24:49 +0100
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Happy New Year!

I've always liked the simplicity and  speed of Xfce4, KDE and Gnome
are an anathema to my idea of  computing. I've been using DWM for a
while  but now  a have  a slightly  faster laptop  I wanted  to try
getting Xfce4  to give a dwm-ish  look and feel. The  top panel was
easy to turn  into something ressembling my dwm bar  using just the
workspace settings and default items.

Kitty kept showing window  decorations, and Librewolf doesn't start
maximized  though. I  fixed  this with  Devilspie2.  I created  two
files in  .config/devilspie2: kitty.lua and librewolf.lua  with the
following contents:

# kitty.lua
if (get_window_name() == "kitty") then
    undecorate_window();
end

# librewolf.lua
if (get_window_name() == "LibreWolf") then
    maximize();
end

I set devilspie to autostart in session and startup, and bob's your
uncle (or your auntie sometimes)

I also want to play with workspaces but I'll get back to this later
as I have to go cook, can't have New years day without snails.



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