On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Okan Demirmen <o...@demirmen.com> wrote:
> On Tue 2011.09.06 at 18:46 -0600, Daniel Melameth wrote:
>> I'm trying to put one xterm in a different autogroup. This xterm's
>> relevant properties (via xprop) are:
>>
>> WM_CLASS(STRING) = "xterm", "XTerm"
>> WM_NAME(STRING) = "largexterm"
>>
>> The relevant portion of my .cwmrc is:
>>
>> autogroup 1 "xterm,XTerm"
>> autogroup 3 "largexterm,XTerm"
>>
>> With this, largexterm is always put in autogroup 1. What am I missing?
>
> cwm uses application "name" and "class", ("xterm", "XTerm")
> respectively. WM_NAME can change at any point, for example the title of
> a web page can change WN_NAME on a browser window, and a shell can
> change WM_NAME while doing something, and so forth; really it's the
> "title". This is not a value on which we base grouping. It might be
> confusing that the atom is named WM_NAME while WM_CLASS includes app
> name and class, which are different properties.
>
> Hope that's more clear.
Crystal. Thanks for the explanation Okan--I can now achieve what I want.
