[xmonad] Re: Cannot manage windows by title

2009/9/15 Alexey Feigin

Hi,

I would like to manage some windows depending on their *title* (WM_NАМЕ). I wrote a manage hook but it doesn't seem to be working (ie, the action is not performed).

Matching by *className* and *resource* seems to work, but not by *title*.

myManageHook = composeAll . concat $ [ [ fmap ("Gvim" `isInfixOf`) className --> doFloat ] -- Works , [ fmap ("gvim" `isInfixOf`) resource --> doFloat ] -- Works , [ fmap ("journal.txt" `isInfixOf`) title --> doFloat ] -- Does not work ]

I also tried to use (stringProperty "WM_NAME")

Any ideas?

I'm running xmonad with GNOME on Ubuntu.

Thanks in advance :)

Alexey

I looked at the source of ManageHook and saw that *title* actually takes _NET_WM_NAME if it exists. In the case of the gvim window I want to detect, this property is in UTF8. Could that be why it's not matching up? And if so, what can I do about it? Alexey