Re: [xmonad] Termite does not work as scratchpad

It's part of XMonad.Util.Scratchpad https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib-0.13/docs/XMonad-Util-Scr... https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib-0.13/docs/src/XMonad-Util... The named scratchpads don't work with termite either. A couple of them are just terminals with a shell. Termite uses -e for exec. So that's ok. Eric Brandon Allbery writes:

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 1:58 PM, wrote:

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Sure. Here's what I have. I'm used both named scratchpad and scratchpad. I set myTerminal to urxvt which works fine. If I set it to Termite it acts very strangely.

xterm and urxvt have a -e option which takes a program to run. termite / VTE-based terminals usually call this option -x, and -e means something subtly different.

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, ("n", scratchpadSpawnActionTerminal "urxvt -background rgba:0000/0000/0200/c800") -- scratchpad

Uhhh... can we see namedScratchpadActionTerminal? Beuase if it's what I think it is, it's your problem. You just wanted a normal scratchpad, or a program running in a scratchpad terminal like the other ones you have defined; but the definitions I've seen in the past for namedScratchpadActionTerminal (generally taken from someone else's config; it's not standard) will open a default terminal as the scatchpad, passing to it with -e a command to run urxvt which will *not* be taken as a scratchpad.