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lagagnon

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wmii gurus: how do I autostart applications within wmii ?

I am a new user of the wmii tiling window manager. I want to autostart an application in its own view as a floating window, after wmii has loaded (not using .xinitrc). I gather this should go somewhere in ~/.wmii-3.5/wmiirc but am unsure what section of the config file this action needs to be in.

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muunleit

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-02-23

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Re: wmii gurus: how do I autostart applications within wmii ?

To start something from within the wmiirc, it should be after "# Misc" (line 205 here) with "&" behind to fork it.
But why don't you start it from .xinitrc? Maybe with

 ( sleep 4 && program_name ) &

To make it floating, you need to edit the "# Tagging rules" (line 28 here)

 /program_name.*/ -> ~

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setokaiba1308

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Registered: 2010-02-10

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Re: wmii gurus: how do I autostart applications within wmii ?

mmm right now I just started to use wmii, but still don't know where to write the code to make the application start.
if I want to make pidgin autostart from the wmiirc, what should I write?

my #Misc part

# Misc
progsfile="$(wmiir namespace)/.proglist"
action status &
wi_proglist $PATH >$progsfile &

tjwoosta

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Registered: 2008-12-18

Posts: 453

Re: wmii gurus: how do I autostart applications within wmii ?

# Misc
progsfile="$(wmiir namespace)/.proglist"
action status &
wi_proglist $PATH >$progsfile &

# Autostart
pidgin &

If you want to take it to the next level and start pidgin on a specific tag you could do something like this

# Autostart
wmiir xwrite /ctl view "4";pidgin &

this would switch to tag 4 then start pidgin.

Last edited by tjwoosta (2010-07-21 19:31:17)