[WINPROPS] name ?

[Sylvain Abélard]

Hello all,

As most of you do, I use some IMs clients to chat with some friends. I
would like the IM's main window (with my contact list) to go in a
particular WFrame and chat windows in another. The problem is that both
main window and chat windows have the same 'class' and 'instance'
xprops.

I was wondering if a name winprop was available in ion3, or better,
if we could identify a window out of its window tile (xprop 'name')
regexp. Apparently this does not work and is not in the documentation
but ion didn't scold me when I wrote 
defwinprop {
 name = My_IM_Main_Window_Title,
 target = MainIMTarget,
}in cfg_kludges.lua.

Would it be possible ? Is it already here and working, and I missed something ?
Have you ever wanted to do that, and how did you cope with that ?

Thanks,
-- Sylvain Abelard,Epita promo 2008

Re: [WINPROPS] name ?

[Etan Reisner]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Sylvain Ab?lard wrote:


Hello all,

As most of you do, I use some IMs clients to chat with some friends. I would
like the IM's main window (with my contact list) to go in a particular
WFrame and chat windows in another. The problem is that both main window and
chat windows have the same 'class' and 'instance' xprops.

I was wondering if a name winprop was available in ion3, or better, if we
could identify a window out of its window tile (xprop 'name') regexp.
Apparently this does not work and is not in the documentation but ion didn't
scold me when I wrote
defwinprop {
  name = My_IM_Main_Window_Title,
  target = MainIMTarget,
}
in cfg_kludges.lua.

Would it be possible ? Is it already here and working, and I missed
something ?
Have you ever wanted to do that, and how did you cope with that ?

Thanks,


If your IM client (or its toolkit) is intelligent it sets the role 
attribute on each window, and you can have ion match against that. If it 
doesn't then you can in fact use 'name' in your matches, but I've never 
really understood how it works. Or you could get a better IM client.


-Etan