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Boy, wmii has a lot less tutorials than any other wm. Its hard to find the simple stuff too.
Anyway, I like the way wmii removes views if there are no windows associated with it. However, is there any way to name some views like 'web' or 'main'? Unlike dwm, wmii doesn't give you a default 9 views. I guess dwm has it hard coded, whereas wmii dynamically removes or adds views. I think this is the relevant section from wmiirc file
for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do
cat <<!
Key $MODKEY-$i
wmiir xwrite /ctl view "$i"
Key $MODKEY-Shift-$i
wmiir xwrite /client/sel/tags "$i"
!
done
I am assuming since this is a for loop, you will have to have numbers in them. But I thought I'd still ask.
Also can someone explain the tagging rules
# Tagging Rules
wmiir write /tagrules <<!
/XMMS.*/ -> ~
/MPlayer.*/ -> ~
/.*/ -> sel
/.*/ -> 1
!
How would I start rtorrent on view 4, lets say. Will it be
/rtorrent.*/ -> 4
?
And lastly, what would be the best way to set wallpapers and or start other apps at boot? Currently I commented this line in wmiirc
xsetroot -solid "$WMII_BACKGROUND" &
and replaced it with
eval `cat $HOME/.fehbg` &
But would it be preferable to set the wallpaper in .xinitrc and even start stalonetray and skype and pidgin?
How do most users do it?
Last edited by Inxsible (2009-03-07 11:04:25)
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Boy, wmii has a lot less tutorials than any other wm. Its hard to find the simple stuff too.
Indeed, there are a bunch of features that you can only find out about via the source code.
However, is there any way to name some views like 'web' or 'main'?
With the default config I think it's MODKEY-t to create a named view.
Also can someone explain the tagging rules
When a window is created wmii matches the expression on the left with `wmiir cat /client/sel/props`. The content after the arrow sets the name of the view. The exceptions are the tilde character that will make the window a float and a exclamation mark or "sel" which refers to the the current view.
How would I start rtorrent on view 4, lets say. Will it be
/rtorrent.*/ -> 4
?
The application needs to create a window to be use in the tagrules. If you launched rtorrent with `urxvt -e rtorrent` you could use the following.
/urxvt:URxvt:rtorrent/ -> 4
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Thanks N30N,
I use the -name flag to name my console apps, so that I don't have to use the same tagging rules as urxvt. so I guess it would be
/rTorrent:URxvt:rtorrent/ -> 4
I will try that out.
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I have added entries for vlc, skype and pidgin to make them floating windows. But it does not work. wmii tiles the windows which I don't like for those apps. Here are my entries for those apps. Am I doing something wrong?
# Tagging Rules
/vlc.*/ -> ~
/skype.*/ -> ~
/pidgin.*/ -> ~
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VLC is not same as vlc
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VLC is not same as vlc
Indeed. That takes care of vlc.
Last edited by Inxsible (2009-03-08 23:20:21)
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Is there any way to leave a margin of say 12px from the top, so that I can see my 1 liner conky all the time?
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