On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 02:51:19AM -0800, Kenny De Metter wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set up groups so that on startup different groups have the
> applications I want.
>
> In short, I want to have one group 'GENERAL' with browser, file manager
> and a terminal, and another group with my development IDE, browser and
> terminal
>
> So in my config.py file, I currently have:
>
> groups = [
>
> Group("GENERAL", spawn=["firefox", "thunar","alacritty"] ),
> Group("DEV", spawn=["intellij-idea-ultimate-edition", "firefox",
> "alacritty"])
>
> ]
>
> However, when I do this, I end up with the following :
>
> - firefox opens twice in the 'general' group , doesn't open in the dev
> group.
> - intellij also opens in the first window
> - thunar and alacritty do open correctly in the correct groups
>
> Has anyone encountered this problem before ?
Yes, spawn= tries to use NET_WM_PID, which doesn't always work for
applications that fork. Try matching on the wm_class as well,
Group('www', spawn='firefox', layout='xmonad',
matches=[Match(wm_class=['Firefox', 'google-chrome',
'Google-chrome'])]),
Tycho
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