On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Gerry LaMontagne <gjlam...@alum.dartmouth.org> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:17:15PM -0400, Matt Seburn wrote: >> Hi all, I've been using Awesome for a while now and absolutely love >> it.. however this one thing has been annoying me since the beginning. >> >> When I open a new client it always opens on the *currently* active >> tag, rather than the one that was active when it was called. In many >> cases this isn't an issue, but for applications that take some time to >> open it means that I have to stay on the tag in order to "catch" it >> when it opens. Is there a way to change this behaviour in my rc.lua?? >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org. >> > Probably the easiest way is to assign the client to a tag. This has the > advantage that you'll always know where it is. > > Assuming you're using 3.4, check out the documentation under awful.rules. If > you wanted the client to always go onto the first tag of screen 1, then > something like " tag=tags[1][1] " in the properties section of your rules > table for that client should be what you need. > > Regards- > Gerry LaMontagne
Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately though it doesn't really solve my issue. I don't always keep clients on the same tag.. and regardless I'd like this to be the default behaviour. This could be a workaround though if there is no rc.lua solution. Thanks, Matt > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org. > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.
