Am 09.03.2013 21:30, schrieb Andreas Amann: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 11:36:57AM +0100, Markus Teich wrote: >> Hi, >> >> a month ago i started using dwm. >> In my rules i send firefox clients to tag 2. >> Now, after starting dwm i am on tag 1 and after i started firefox via >> dmenu, i automatically get switched to tag 2. > > Do you also get switched to tag 2, if you start firefox from a terminal in > tag 1?
Yes and also when opening a new tab in the running firefox from a different dwm tag. >> Right after starting dwm this is not that much of a problem, but when i >> have some work in progress and use both views (via mod+tab) and then >> start another application, which is not in the current tagset, i loose >> one of my views to the tags of the started application. > > Starting an application does normally not cause an _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW event. > Does this switching happen for all applications, or only for firefox? I noticed the same behaviour for starting pidgin and gimp but not for thunderbird. > FWIW, i have similar rules for firefox, and I don't see your switching > behaviour. When I start firefox or any other program with dmenu, all visible > tags and the alternative view stay as they are. I use session restore in firefox, what is your setting for the startup action? Nevertheless the secondary view is still replaced if any non visible client receives the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW event and that should probably not be the default behaviour. --Markus
