Worksets helps you to quickly launch and arrange multiple applications in your desktop environment to support a specific workflow. Built for Unity 7 (R.I.P) and has been tested on Ubuntu 16.04.
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| Tray menu | Workset dialog | Application dialog |
- Create worksets for running and placing apps in predefined positions on the monitor and desktop of your choice
- Define scripts to be run at start of workset launch
- Easy access to use, create and manage your worksets through the systemtray
- Open and close worksets from the systemtray (you should be prompted to save your work)
- Unity 7 with X11 window manager (Tested on Ubuntu 16.04)
- Python 3
- PyQt5
- TinyDB
- wmctrl
- xdotool
Worksets is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later.
Some workflows involves multiple "applications" and regularly switching between them. Such a workflow could be something you do every day or something you need to work on for a limited time.
With Worksets you can make this setup once and rely on the click of a button to set it up for you afterwards. This could all be done with bash, wmctrl and xdotool already, but you would have to fiddle around with x and y coordinates and sizes, full desktop area etc. which could be a cumbersome proces (especially if the hardware setup later changes) and as such would quickly eat up the benefits timewise of doing this.
You will still have to configure the worksets manually, but the configuration has been made a gazillion times easier than doing it through bash scripts with wmctrl and xdotool.
What you need to do is:
- Specify the executable you want to launch
- Supply specific parameters for the executable (say if you want to open a website or a specific file)
- Choose between predefined placements on available monitors and desktops
- save and repeat until your workset is complete
Available desktops and monitors are determined at launch.
Please do understand that this is a learning/hobby project of mine and as such development can be slow. I do hope however that somebody will find it useful
For now installation is only possible from source distribution file.
Step-by-step instructions for installation with pip can be found in the wiki
Please see the instructions in the wiki
TODO