[solved] URxvt in Openbox: Set WM_WINDOW_ROLE

lastchancetosee · 2009-10-31 17:42:13

Hi, I'd like to do what it says in the title: Set custom window-roles for URxvt (like e.g. Terminal can do via command line options).

Background of the question is this:
I'm using Openbox and I want to start 2 Terminals on Desktop 4 on startup (via autostart.sh), but still have additional terminals I might start appear on the current desktop. I did this by setting the WM_WINDOW_ROLE property of the startup-terminals to 'desk4' and instruct Openbox to start Terminals with that role on Desktop 4.

Unfortunately URxvt has no such option.

So, any ideas on how to define the window role or achieve the above by other means?

Last edited by lastchancetosee (2009-11-01 00:29:53)

hbekel · 2009-10-31 19:41:09

Is there any reason why you insist on using WM_WINDOW_ROLE? If not, you can use the name portion of the WM_CLASS property as well:

# urxvt -name desk4

This sets WM_CLASS as follows:

# xprop -id $WINDOWID | grep WM_CLASS
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "desk4", "URxvt"

and you can match it with openbox like this:

<application name="desk4" class="URxvt">
<desktop>4</desktop>
</application>

lastchancetosee · 2009-11-01 00:29:38

nope, no reason to use window role instead of name. Coming from xfce-terminal I was sort of looking at roles, not names. I must have missed the -name option, urxvt's manpages are huge.

Thanks.

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Not to others:
If you change the 'name' property of URxvt, make sure that all your configuration in .Xdefaults is

URxvt.<property>

and not

urxvt.<property>

or otherwise your renamed terminals wont use those settings.
Alternatively you can define entirely different properties for the newly-named terminal with

Last edited by lastchancetosee (2009-11-01 09:21:17)

nblock · 2009-12-28 19:22:35

lastchancetosee wrote:

Not to others:
If you change the 'name' property of URxvt, make sure that all your configuration in .Xdefaults is
URxvt.<property>
and not
urxvt.<property>
or otherwise your renamed terminals wont use those settings.
Alternatively you can define entirely different properties for the newly-named terminal with
<newname>.<property>

thank you so much for this tip! I searched a few hours to fix this problem in urxvt.

Arch Linux

#1 2009-10-31 17:42:13

[solved] URxvt in Openbox: Set WM_WINDOW_ROLE

#2 2009-10-31 19:41:09

Re: [solved] URxvt in Openbox: Set WM_WINDOW_ROLE

#3 2009-11-01 00:29:38

Re: [solved] URxvt in Openbox: Set WM_WINDOW_ROLE

#4 2009-12-28 19:22:35

Re: [solved] URxvt in Openbox: Set WM_WINDOW_ROLE

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