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yfel

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Registered: 2009-07-28

Posts: 9

awesome wm floating apps?

how could i find the class/instance of an application in order to specifying floating applications in awesome.
for example,i want firefox download window to float but doing so:

floatapp = {
...
["Download"] = true,
...
}

didn't work.any idea?thanks in advance

cinan

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From: Slovakia

Registered: 2008-07-04

Posts: 251

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Re: awesome wm floating apps?

find these lines:

    local cls = c.class
    local inst = c.instance
    if floatapps[cls] then
        awful.client.floating.set(c, floatapps[cls])                                                    
    elseif floatapps[inst] then
        awful.client.floating.set(c, floatapps[inst])
    end

and change them to:

    local cls = c.class
    local inst = c.instance
    local role = c.role
    if floatapps[cls] then
        awful.client.floating.set(c, floatapps[cls])                                                    
    elseif floatapps[inst] then
        awful.client.floating.set(c, floatapps[inst])
    elseif floatapps[role] then
        awful.client.floating.set(c, floatapps[role])
    end

evhan

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Registered: 2009-07-20

Posts: 6

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Re: awesome wm floating apps?

The xprop command will help you out here; running xprop and selecting another application window will give you all kinds of information about it. Running xprop WM_CLASS will give you the terms you can use with awesome to float that app.

Last edited by evhan (2009-07-28 14:34:16)

yfel

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Registered: 2009-07-28

Posts: 9

Re: awesome wm floating apps?

The xprop command will help you out here; running xprop and selecting another application window will give you all kinds of information about it. Running xprop WM_CLASS will give you the terms you can use with awesome to float that app.

:)thanks!

alterecco

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Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 152

Re: awesome wm floating apps?

If you use naughty, you can use something like this in your aweome rc.lua keybinds

-- print info on current client
key(keys.c_mod,    "i",        function ()
    local c = client.focus
    if not c then
        return
    end

    local geom = c:geometry()

    local t = ""
    if c.class then t = t .. "Class: " .. c.class .. "\n" end
    if c.instance then t = t .. "Instance: " .. c.instance .. "\n" end
    if c.role then t = t .. "Role: " .. c.role .. "\n" end
    if c.name then t = t .. "Name: " .. c.name .. "\n" end
    if c.type then t = t .. "Type: " .. c.type .. "\n" end
    if geom.width and geom.height and geom.x and geom.y then
        t = t .. "Dimensions: " .. "x:" .. geom.x .. " y:" .. geom.y .. " w:" .. geom.width .. " h:" .. geom.height
    end

    naughty.notify({
        text = t,
        timeout = 30,
    })
end),