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aclindsa

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[SOLVED] wmii always starts Chromium as a floated window

Whenever I start Chromium (whether by Mod-p, or by command line) it is spawned as a floating window in wmii. I have double- and triple-checked that none of my tagrules could be setting it to be a floating window. Every other application starts normally as a stacked window. Has anyone else encountered this problem?

Below is some info about my setup (let me know if more would be helpful to diagnose the problem).

Thanks!
-Aaron

$ wmii -v
wmii-3.9.2, ©2010 Kris Maglione

$ wmiir read /tagrules
/.*/ -> sel

$ cat ~/.wmii/wmiirc_local
#!/bin/dash -f

MODKEY=Mod3

WMII_FOCUSCOLORS='#ffffff #285577 #4c7899'
WMII_BACKGROUND='#333333'
WMII_NORMCOLORS='#888888 #222222 #333333'

status() {
        echo -n ' wlan0:' $(iwconfig wlan0 | sed 's/ /\n/g' | grep Quality | sed 's/=/\n/g' | grep 70) '|' $(acpi -b | sed 's/.* \([0-9]\{1,3\}%.*\).*/Bat: \1/') '|' 'CPU:' $(top -b -n2 -d0.1 | grep 'Cpu(s):' | sed 's/[ ,:]/\n/g' | grep us | sed 's/us//g' | tail -n1)  '|' $(uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g') '|' $(date) 
}

# Column Rules
wmiir write /colrules <<!
/.*/ -> 50+50 #make windows open w/ a 50-50 split
!

# Tagging rules
wmiir write /tagrules <<!
/.*/ -> sel
!

$ pacman -Q | grep xorg
xorg-docs 1.6-1
xorg-font-utils 7.6-1
xorg-fonts-100dpi 1.0.1-3
xorg-fonts-75dpi 1.0.1-3
xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.2-1
xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.3-1
xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.1-1
xorg-iceauth 1.0.4-2
xorg-luit 1.1.0-2
xorg-res-utils 1.0.3-3
xorg-server 1.9.4.901-1
xorg-server-common 1.9.4.901-1
xorg-server-utils 7.6-2
xorg-sessreg 1.0.6-2
xorg-setxkbmap 1.2.0-2
xorg-twm 1.0.6-2
xorg-utils 7.6-7
xorg-xauth 1.0.5-2
xorg-xbacklight 1.1.2-2
xorg-xcmsdb 1.0.3-2
xorg-xdpyinfo 1.2.0-2
xorg-xdriinfo 1.0.4-2
xorg-xev 1.1.0-2
xorg-xgamma 1.0.4-2
xorg-xhost 1.0.4-2
xorg-xinit 1.3.0-3
xorg-xinput 1.5.3-2
xorg-xkb-utils 7.6-1
xorg-xkbcomp 1.2.1-2
xorg-xkbevd 1.1.2-2
xorg-xkbutils 1.0.3-2
xorg-xlsatoms 1.1.0-2
xorg-xlsclients 1.1.1-2
xorg-xmessage 1.0.3-1
xorg-xmodmap 1.0.5-2
xorg-xprop 1.2.0-2
xorg-xrandr 1.3.4-2
xorg-xrdb 1.0.8-2
xorg-xrefresh 1.0.4-2
xorg-xset 1.2.1-2
xorg-xsetroot 1.1.0-2
xorg-xvinfo 1.1.1-2
xorg-xwininfo 1.1.1-2

Last edited by aclindsa (2011-03-17 23:32:01)

lagagnon

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Re: [SOLVED] wmii always starts Chromium as a floated window

I use wmii but do not know the reason for your problem. However, the good folks at the wmii mailing list most certainly would. I suggest you subscribe to "dev" mail list here: http://suckless.org/community and preface your query with "[wmii]".

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Inxsible

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Re: [SOLVED] wmii always starts Chromium as a floated window

I haven't used wmii in a long time. But have you tried explicitly setting chromium as tiled. even though your default wmii might be set to tiling mode

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aclindsa

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Re: [SOLVED] wmii always starts Chromium as a floated window

I solved the problem (with the help of the wmii mailing list: http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1103/7220.html). It turned out to be a Chromium problem, rather than a wmii one. The solution is simply to turn on "Use system title bar and borders" in Chromium's settings.

I am still not sure why wmii cannot get Chromium under control even without this setting set properly, but I'll save that for another day.

Last edited by aclindsa (2011-03-17 23:32:38)