DWM - Few questions while moving ..

Mazur · 2010-10-15 00:32:06

Hello,

I decided to give up on Gnome and to try Dwm, I have installed slim so now I am automatically logged in to my awesome desktop. There are few things I wanted to ask, how can I configure dwm so if I run chromium then it will appear in Desktop "2" and not in Desktop "1". How can I run Chromium, irssi, ncmpcpp and rtorrent at start (I guess .xinitrc) but they will appear at different Desktops? I mean those numbers at the top "1" "2" "3" "4" etc.

Thank You,
Mazur

schen · 2010-10-15 01:39:16

Configure them in your rules area in the config.h.

For example, the tagsmask 1<<8 will make the window spawn in tag 9.

http://dwm.suckless.org/customisation/tagmask

Mazur · 2010-10-15 15:36:46

I have done something like this:

/* tagging */
static const char *tags[] = { "Desktop", "Internet", "Anime", "C++", "PHP", "Chat", "Music", "Download" };

static const Rule rules[] = {
        /* class      instance    title       tags mask     isfloating   monitor */
        { "pidgin",   NULL,       NULL,       1 << 6,            False,        -1 },
        { "chromium", NULL,       NULL,       1 << 2,            False,        -1 },
        { "urxvt",    NULL,       NULL,       1,                 False,        -1 },
        { "mplayer",  NULL,       NULL,       1 << 3,            False,        -1 },
};

And I am using commands in .xinitrc "chromium & pidgin & urxvt ..." to run them but they appear in first one "Desktop" and not in "Internet" or "Chat". What I done wrong?

ber_t · 2010-10-15 16:31:26

You have to specify the class, instance or title string associated with a window, not the command's name.
To get the instance/class name, use xprop, and find the line beginning with "WM_CLASS(STRING)" in it's output. The first value is the instance, the second is the class. The title is in the line starting with "WM_NAME(STRING)".

Mazur · 2010-10-15 18:28:00

It's done and it works. Thank You ber_t and schen .

litemotiv · 2011-01-30 22:21:08

Please mark your thread solved Mazur.

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