FVWM: Identifying a window
There are certain websites for which I like to customize how FVWM treats the browser window (e.g., different styles for different sites). As long as the name of the website is part of the window name, it's not a problem. Occasionally, however, I'll run into a site where there's no stable name. For example, the online music streaming site MOG.com only includes the name of the artist and song in the window name. Many X clients let you specify your own name, but neither Firefox nor Chrome does. Is there a way to uniquely identify such browser windows (whether from within FVWM or not) when the site doesn't provide a fixed reference? For FvwmEvent, I can use the WindowId but as far as I understand, that doesn't work for Style specifications. Thanks! Claude
Re: FVWM: Identifying a window
Claude Rubinson rubin...@u.arizona.edu writes: There are certain websites for which I like to customize how FVWM treats the browser window (e.g., different styles for different sites). As long as the name of the website is part of the window name, it's not a problem. Occasionally, however, I'll run into a site where there's no stable name. For example, the online music streaming site MOG.com only includes the name of the artist and song in the window name. Many X clients let you specify your own name, but neither Firefox nor Chrome does. Is there a way to uniquely identify such browser windows (whether from within FVWM or not) when the site doesn't provide a fixed reference? For FvwmEvent, I can use the WindowId but as far as I understand, that doesn't work for Style specifications. FvwmIdent gives you the 3 possible values to match on, name, class, resource. Possibly some substring will work, like *Free MP3*.
Re: FVWM: Identifying a window
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 07:03:26PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: Occasionally, however, I'll run into a site where there's no stable name. For example, the online music streaming site MOG.com only includes the name of the artist and song in the window name. Many X clients let you specify your own name, but neither Firefox nor Chrome does. Is there a way to uniquely identify such browser windows Nope -- not unless there's an additional property of the window that's set (see xprop). That's what I figured. Thanks. Claude
Re: FVWM: Identifying a window
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 02:40:58PM -0500, Claude Rubinson wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 07:03:26PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: Occasionally, however, I'll run into a site where there's no stable name. For example, the online music streaming site MOG.com only includes the name of the artist and song in the window name. Many X clients let you specify your own name, but neither Firefox nor Chrome does. Is there a way to uniquely identify such browser windows Nope -- not unless there's an additional property of the window that's set (see xprop). That's what I figured. Thanks. This is why looking for the class of the window and the resource won't help you as these are static anyway -- and for the class property, this is only ever allowed to be changed when the window is in the Withdrawn state, anyway. With firefox, they're never any different from one another, so you can't reliably use them to uniquely identify one firefox instance from another. This question has come up a lot in the past -- my preferred solution (until/if (yeah, right) things change upstream so that Mozilla allow for some identifier as part of the WM_NAME (for instance)) is to use IndexedWindowName, and hope for the best. It makes for some ugly style matching, but there's ways round that if you really care. -- Thomas Adam -- Deep in my heart I wish I was wrong. But deep in my heart I know I am not. -- Morrissey (Girl Least Likely To -- off of Viva Hate.)
Re: FVWM: Identifying a window
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 08:49:23PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: my preferred solution is to use IndexedWindowName, and hope for the best. It makes for some ugly style matching, but there's ways round that if you really care. Yep, that's was going to be my next strategy. Good to know that my thinking's not completely off-base here. Thanks, Claude
