Hello, On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 02:15:26PM -0800, Xiaojie Lin wrote: > Hi, > > I am switching from Awesome wm to qtile. One thing that I cannot find is a > drop-down application manager like Awesome's Scratchpad. The Scratchpad > allows me to use a key to run an application (if the application has not > been run before) or toggle the visibility of this application's window, > which can make the application act like the drop-down terminal Quake ( > http://guake.org/).
I know several users who use guake, I've used Yakuake (a long time ago), and tilda. As long as the window is matched as a floating window by default, it should Just Work. If you want to run applications not via hotkeys, I suggest using the prompt widget; a configuration example: https://github.com/qtile/qtile-examples/blob/master/tych0/config.py#L43 https://github.com/qtile/qtile-examples/blob/master/tych0/config.py#L107 There are also things like dmenu. Tycho > Does qtile or some third-party package provides something like this? > > Thanks! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "qtile-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qtile-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
