Automatically open processes on startup

[Maytar Byle]

Hello!

I'm running awesome 3.4 and i wanted to add a feature that on startup - a
list of processes will be loaded to their designated tags.
For example: terminal will be loaded to the first tag, music player will be
loaded to the fifth etc..

The code i added to rc.lua goes like this:

tag_apps = { { terminal, terminal } , { terminal } }
for i = 1, #tag_apps do
for j = 1, #tag_apps[i] do
awful.util.spawn(tag_apps[i][j])
--awful.client.movetotag(i, c)
end
end

teminal is the terminal command.

My problems are those:
1. spawn makes the xserver crash and i don't understand why.
2. Even if it would work, how do i get the client object for the process i
just opened so i can move it to the correct tag with movetotag?

Thank you!

Re: Automatically open processes on startup

[Maytar Byle]

Thank you for answering!
It doesn't fully solve the second problem though because in case i want 2
tags with terminals in them then i cant make the seperation.
and the first question still left unanswered.

2014-10-05 16:17 GMT+03:00 David Sorkovsky :

>  Have you considered Rules?
>
>
>
> Default rc.lua – Note the firefox entry…
>
>
>
> -- {{{ Rules
>
> awful.rules.rules = {
>
> -- All clients will match this rule.
>
> { rule = { },
>
>   properties = { border_width = beautiful.border_width,
>
>  border_color = beautiful.border_normal,
>
>  focus = true,
>
>  keys = clientkeys,
>
>  buttons = clientbuttons } },
>
> { rule = { class = "MPlayer" },
>
>   properties = { floating = true } },
>
> { rule = { class = "pinentry" },
>
>   properties = { floating = true } },
>
> { rule = { class = "gimp" },
>
>   properties = { floating = true } },
>
> -- Set Firefox to always map on tags number 2 of screen 1.
>
> -- { rule = { class = "Firefox" },
>
> --   properties = { tag = tags[1][2] } },
>
> }
>
>
>  --
>
> *From:* Maytar Byle [mailto:mayt...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, 6 October 2014 12:06 AM
> *To:* awesome@naquadah.org
> *Subject:* Automatically open processes on startup
>
>
>
> Hello!
>
>
>
> I'm running awesome 3.4 and i wanted to add a feature that on startup - a
> list of processes will be loaded to their designated tags.
>
> For example: terminal will be loaded to the first tag, music player will
> be loaded to the fifth etc..
>
>
>
> The code i added to rc.lua goes like this:
>
>
>
> tag_apps = { { terminal, terminal } , { terminal } }
>
> for i = 1, #tag_apps do
>
> for j = 1, #tag_apps[i] do
>
> awful.util.spawn(tag_apps[i][j])
>
> --awful.client.movetotag(i, c)
>
> end
>
> end
>
>
>
> teminal is the terminal command.
>
>
>
> My problems are those:
>
> 1. spawn makes the xserver crash and i don't understand why.
>
> 2. Even if it would work, how do i get the client object for the process i
> just opened so i can move it to the correct tag with movetotag?
>
>
>
> Thank you!
>