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heleos

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From: Maine, USA

Registered: 2007-04-24

Posts: 678

awesome 'awful.client.movetotag' function

I'm wondering if anyone has a way around this. Setting up hotkeys to open things like thunar, i have:

    if name:lower():find("thunar") then
            awful.client.movetotag(tags[screen][1])
    end

but when thunar starts, the title is actually 'username - File Manager'. That isn't a problem, I can make another action that searches my username, and puts it in the tag I want. The problem is trying to get pidgin windows to do the same. When pidgin opens, it has the name of the user sending the messege. I don't want to have to write a separate case for each user on my list

I was wondering if there's a better way?

GGLucas

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Registered: 2008-03-13

Posts: 113

Re: awesome 'awful.client.movetotag' function

If you're using a recent awesome commit, client:class_get() was added a bit back, you could use that to check for the WM_CLASS instead of the window title.

Last edited by GGLucas (2008-06-07 20:24:34)

heleos

Member

From: Maine, USA

Registered: 2007-04-24

Posts: 678

Re: awesome 'awful.client.movetotag' function

You always seem to save me lucas