Frozone

A tool to save and restore the position of windows using wmctrl.

Requirements

• wmctrl
• Python >= 3.2
• pip

Tested on Zorin OS 17 Core.

Installation

$ pip3 install frozone

Usage

Saving open windows

frozone freeze

Restoring open windows

frozone restore

Command line arguments

Argument	Description
--help	Show the help message
-v, --verbose	Increase output verbosity
-r, --restore	Restore the windows to their previous state using the default JSON file. Can be used with -i, --input to specify the JSON file location
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT	Set an output path for the JSON file
-i INPUT, --input INPUT	Set the input path for the JSON file
-c CMD_REGEX, --cmd-regex CMD_REGEX	Set the command regex to filter the windows to be saved

Configuration

wmctrl has an issue with positioning due to window frames. To mitigate this issue, you can configure the top and left offsets in the ~/.config/frozone/frozone.conf.

cmd_regex can also be configured in the same file.

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By recoskyler - Adil Atalay Hamamcioglu - 2024