Hello, Adam,
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:54:20 -0400
Adam Vogt
* On Wednesday, June 11 2008, Jesús Guerrero wrote:
My current approach, right now, is to launch everything from my .xinitrc, and then I have manageHook on my xmonad.hs file to W.shift the firefox window to workspace 2. The problem is that, this method, effectively shifts ALL the firefox windows to that workspace, which means that if I
That is the point of the manageHook: windows go where they belong, no matter when you start them.
I know. The problem is that I only want to send to workspace 2 the first instance, which is the one I launch from my .xinitrc. See below...
click an url on sylpheed on workspace 3, then I have to go to workspace 2 to be able to see the firefox window containing the page associated to the url I just clicked on sylpheed.
So you can either somehow run firefox with a different class (and match to that), but I don't know how, without using a function from xlib to do that: XSetClassHint(). An it isn't supposed to be used like that.
Well, firefox has a whole plethora of problems. Let alone the whole mass of child windows it creates for one or another purpose. I think we would need a whole layout just for it or something. The big problem is that all the children are "Firefox" or "Firefox-bin" depending on your distro and firerox version. You can match by title or resource, which is a real pain, because there's something called "localization", not to speak about the wonderful title changes that are tipical on a web browser. I don't think i'ts possible to change the firefox WM_CLASS without hacking a bit either. But I digress and this is anyway a different issue (as I said, firefox has lots of them). The original purpose of my original post was to find a better way to launch a firefox instance at workspace 2, without forcing the rest of firefox instances to be shifted to that workspace. I used manageHook because I don't have any other thing in my xmonad toolbox right now, but as I said, I doubt that's the correct way for what I intend.
Or you can scrap the manageHook and let firefox start on the currently visible workspace, which is pretty close to what you want anyways?
Yep. I can just erase the manageHook reference to firefox, yet one problem
remains: how to launch firefox at workspace 2 when I startx. Not that it's
a critical problem. I just was wondering if there's some way to do so. I just
wanted to know if there's a way to do so on xmonad. I am pretty new to this
stuff. If there is not, then I suppose I can open it myself, it's not a big
deal.
And, a bit off-topic, but related still: is there a way to tell xmonad
the desired size and position for a floated window?
Thanks for your response :)
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Jesús Guerrero