I'm using wmii3.5 on OpenBSD and no matter how hard I look I can't find a way to control if a window is floating or not.
I can do this fine: $ wmiir xwrite /client/sel/ctl Fullscreen on $ wmiir xwrite /client/sel/ctl Fullscreen off But: $ wmiir xwrite /client/sel/ctl Floating off wmiir: fatal: cannot write file '/client/sel/ctl': bad command $ wmiir xwrite /client/sel/ctl Float off wmiir: fatal: cannot write file '/client/sel/ctl': bad command I did discover the tagrules trick (which I feel lame for 'discovering' since it is right under my nose in the default wmiirc) of putting a line in /tagrules that reads '/<regex matching client type>.*/ -> ~' but I don't necessarily want /all/ my instances of whatever given program I want to float to work this way (a friend suggested I use xargs to set the WM_CLASS of any window I do want to manage this way to some unique string, but that's a kludge at best). It seems like the only way to control the floating state is $ wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel toggle None of these work (though I wouldn't expect them to; I don't understand why if Fullscreen is a client property, that floating is a view property): $ wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel on wmiir: fatal: cannot write file '/tag/sel/ctl': bad value $ wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel off wmiir: fatal: cannot write file '/tag/sel/ctl': bad value $ wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel floating wmiir: fatal: cannot write file '/tag/sel/ctl': bad value $ wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel '~' wmiir: fatal: cannot write file '/tag/sel/ctl': bad value If you're curious my use case is this: I've implemented http://hashapass.com as a keyboard shortcut, and use GNOME's zenity to get the param/pass combo from the user (dmenu would be slicker but it doesn't supporting hiding the password); for some reason all zenity windows launched by my keyboard shortcut end up tiled, though all ones launched by dmenu or from a terminal don't. What I'd like to do is pick up the CreateClient event and float it only if the created client is the one I just started from my script. On a theory I even tried setting it's tag to "~" but wmii just ignored me: $ echo -n '~' | wmiir write /client/sel/tags $ wmiir read /client/sel/tags 1$ I've read the latest doc that comes with the 3.9beta (wmii.pdf) and though the commands have changed, it seems that there still is only a way to toggle a window in and out of floating. So is there something I'm missing? Is this planned for inclusion in a future release? Else, can I request this as a feature? And an obligatory thanks for wmii! I've been using it since 2.x and it makes me happy how natural it all is. -Nick
