Window-Specific Settings: Documentation?

Hi KDE users,

I'm wondering how I can learn how to use
the "Window-Specific Settings" of the Control
Center.

What I want to achieve is 1) to remove the title bar and
other window
decorations from a window, 2) to prevent the window from
appearing
in the task bar, and 3) to prevent it from appearing in the
Alt-Tab window cycling menu.

I created a new entry in "Window-Specific
Settings" and "Modify" it.
In the "Window tab in the "Modify" menu,  I
specified the window class
of the window and in the  "Preferences" tab, I
checked "Skip Taskbar",
"Skip Pager", and "No Border".  The
window in question now
doesn't appear in the Alt-Tab menu.  But, it does appear in
the task
bar and it does have a border.

Also I want to know what the items in the "Window
Extra" tab mean.
Of course, I clicked the "Help" button, but it
shows just one page
explaining the obvious: that this menu is to specify
window-specific
settings.  Nothing more.

Cheers,
Ryo
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On Saturday 03 March 2007, Ryo Furue wrote:
> Hi KDE users,
>
> I'm wondering how I can learn how to use
> the "Window-Specific Settings" of the Control
Center.

This might not exactly be what you were asking for, but I
use a slightly 
different method to create window specific rules. I don't
create them from 
the Control Center. Instead, I press Alt+F3 or right-click
on the window 
titlebar of the window that I want to affect. Then I select
Advanced -> 
Special Window Settings. It will popup a dialog box that
looks similar to the 
one you will find in the Control Center, except it already
filled it the 
necessary details in the Window tab of that dialog box.

These are the only documentation I could find in http://docs.kde.org
http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase/us
erguide/windows-how-to-work.html
http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase/
kcontrol/windowmanagement/index.html

Hope that helps.
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Hi,

| This might not exactly be what you were asking for, but I
use a
| slightly different method to create window specific rules.
I don't
| create them from the Control Center. Instead, I press
Alt+F3 or
| right-click on the window titlebar of the window that I
want to
| affect. Then I select Advanced -> Special Window
Settings. It will
| popup a dialog box that looks similar to the one you will
find in
| the Control Center, except it already filled it the
necessary
| details in the Window tab of that dialog box.

Thanks.  That's definitely more convenient.  Unfortunately,
it didn't
work, either.  For example, even "Skip Taskbar"
was enabled, the
window still remains in the taskbar.  This might be a bug.

| These are the only documentation I could find in http://docs.kde.org
| http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase/us
erguide/windows-how-to-work.html
| http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase/
kcontrol/windowmanagement/index.html

That was helpful.  The windows-how-to-work.html page tells
you
that instead of Window-specific configurations,  you can do
this:

   kstart --type Dock  yourapplication

to remove window decorations.  Unfortunately, the
application
still appears in the task bar.

Regards,
Ryo
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On Saturday 03 March 2007 10:18, Ryo Furue wrote:

> That was helpful.  The windows-how-to-work.html page
tells you
> that instead of Window-specific configurations,  you
can do this:
>
>    kstart --type Dock  yourapplication
>
> to remove window decorations.  Unfortunately, the
application
> still appears in the task bar.

See
kstart --help
for more option, i.e. --skiptaskbar

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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