Hi,
The possibility to add an exception to a rule (over, adding multiple
rules) was discussed on the user mailing list here[1]. This patch is
just an outcome of that; tested on my machine.
>From commit message:
rules: allow defining exceptions to a rule
So you want to make all Firefox windows floating except the main window
(instance = Navigator). You can either list all possible windows in
rules and make them floating, or make all of them floating except one:
{ rule = { class = "Firefox" },
rule_no = { instance = "Navigator" },
properties = {floating = true},
}
[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.awesome/7051/
--
Anurag Priyam
http://about.me/yeban/
From d933ab3130500dbc9ccfa170470a125edc27094a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anurag Priyam <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:29:45 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] rules: allow defining exceptions to a rule
So you want to make all Firefox windows floating except the main window
(instance = Navigator). You can either list all possible windows in
rules and make them floating, or make all of them floating except one:
{ rule = { class = "Firefox" },
rule_no = { instance = "Navigator" },
properties = {floating = true},
}
Signed-off-by: Anurag Priyam <[email protected]>
---
lib/awful/rules.lua.in | 15 +++++++++++++--
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/awful/rules.lua.in b/lib/awful/rules.lua.in
index 1b1c390..1d8db95 100644
--- a/lib/awful/rules.lua.in
+++ b/lib/awful/rules.lua.in
@@ -74,6 +74,17 @@ module("awful.rules")
-- </code>
-- </p>
--
+-- <p> To match multiple clients with an exception one can couple 'rule_no' with
+-- either 'rule' or 'rule_any', using the same semantics:
+-- <br/>
+-- <code>
+-- { rule = { class = "Firefox" },
+-- rule_no = { instance = "Navigator" },
+-- properties = {floating = true},
+-- },
+-- </code>
+-- </p>
+--
-- @class table
-- @name rules
rules = {}
@@ -124,8 +135,8 @@ function apply(c)
local props = {}
local callbacks = {}
for _, entry in ipairs(rules) do
- if (entry.rule and match(c, entry.rule)) or
- (entry.rule_any and match_any(c, entry.rule_any)) then
+ if (entry.rule and match(c, entry.rule) and not match(c, entry.rule_no)) or
+ (entry.rule_any and match_any(c, entry.rule_any) and not match_any(c, entry.rule_no)) then
if entry.properties then
for property, value in pairs(entry.properties) do
props[property] = value
--
1.7.4.1
