I guess in addition, I should have initialized last_tag to nil and change
the else statement to the following.
elseif last_tag then
awful.client.movetotag(last_tag, c)
last_tag = nil
end
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Jacques Kvam <[email protected]> wrote:
> This has kind of annoyed me too, I guess your post motivated me to try to
> figure out something. Here's what I did.
>
> I added a global variable "last_tag" to store the tag where I ran my
> command.
>
> awful.key({ modkey }, "r",
> function ()
> last_tag = awful.tag.selected(1)
> mypromptbox[mouse.screen]:run()
> end),
>
> Then I added this else clause in the register hook.
>
> if target then
> c.screen = target.screen
> awful.client.movetotag(tags[target.screen][target.tag], c)
> else
> awful.client.movetotag(last_tag, c)
> end
>
> Keep in mind I'm using awesome 3.3. Also this solution is rather kludgy,
> i.e. if you are launching multiple apps then this won't work as expected. I
> suppose you could use some data structure like a hash to take care of that,
> but that's more work than I want to do at the moment.
>
>
> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Adrian von Stechow <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi-
>>
>> I often find myself spawning a client with a long startup time while
>> having tag A active, then switching to tag B while the application is
>> still starting, only to have the application spawn in tag B. I then
>> have to push the app back to the tag where I initially wanted it to
>> be.
>> Binding an app to a specific tag isn't really what I'm looking for,
>> although it does alleviate the problem a bit.
>> Does anyone have a solution for this?
>>
>> Adrian
>>
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