On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:57:43PM +0100, Antoni Grzymala wrote: > Tako rzecze [EMAIL PROTECTED] (w e-mailu datowanym 2006-11-30, 14:32): > > Anyway, I don't know if this has been discussed yet, but wouldn't it be > > a little more consistent to apply the tag that is viewed when a program > > is started instead of the tag that is viewed when the program pops up? > > This gives the user a little bit more control. > > This might not at all be easy to implement -- I only know one window > manager that does this, namely kwin, even though I didn't much like KDE > in general that was the reason I used it for a while as my wm.
kwin uses the so called startup-notifcation X extension, which is no option for dwm... Also, X does not provide any information about the relation process -> window, simply because X is network transparent and hence such information don't scales well among hosts (I believe the startup notification hack in KDE/Gnome and XFCE?) only works locally. > It let's you start an app, forget about it and get on with your work > (viewing other tags (or other workspaces in KDE)) without the app's > window suddenly appearing in front of you and stealing focus/disrupting > your stream of thought and so on... This matters especially in apps that > take years to load (like firefox, opera, OOo and other such bloated > stuff). > > Arg -- is this remotely possible in something as minimalistic as dwm? Yes, define a rule for such apps, that they go to the 'crap' tag or something similiar. (look into config.arg.h how I handle firefox, it doesn't interrup my workflow when I don't view the 'net' tag during startup). -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://suckless.org/~arg/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
