I forgot: Call xprop from your terminal to find out about window titles, 
classes etc. Calling the program gives you a mouse cursor you can then use 
to click on a specific window. All the information will be dumped in the 
terminal.

On Saturday, 28 November 2020 at 11:06:12 UTC+1 tcld wrote:

> You can influence it when defining your groups. With the most recent 
> version of Qtile (github) it works like this:
>
> Group('sys', position=9, label='', layout='bsp', 
> matches=[Match(title='updates'), Match(wm_class='Gnome-system-monitor'), 
> Match(wm_class='VirtualBox Manager')])
>
> If you are on 0.16.1 or later, the syntax is slightly different (this is 
> from memory only, so I suggest you test it by importing your config through 
> the Python commandline or something similar):
>
> Group('sys', position=9, label='', layout='bsp', 
> matches=[Match(title=['updates'], wm_class=['Gnome-system-monitor', 
> 'VirtualBox Manager'])])
>
> I found the Match-class a little underdocumented myself when I started 
> out. :)
>
> On Saturday, 28 November 2020 at 10:53:56 UTC+1 [email protected] 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi guys 
>> I've been looking around github and the qtile documentation for 2 or 3 
>> days but I can't figure out how to have an app always open in a particular 
>> group.
>>
>> Thanks in advance and sorry for the very basic question.
>>
>

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