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Subject: [openbox] Per-App Settings Question / Request
From: sndchaser () gmail ! com (George De Bruin)
Date: 2008-02-03 16:24:54
Message-ID: 47A5EAD6.4070003 () gmail ! com
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Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>> Is there any way to match a window in the per-app settings based on
>> either the WM_ICON_NAME or WM_NAME properties?
>
> no.
>
>> What I am trying to do is match a specific instance of a terminal
>> when it starts up so I can set it's geometry, decor, etc. Since the
>> class string is already set by the terminal, and I don't have a
>> method to set the role property, I am searching for some way to
>> accomplish this. The best I have found so far is to set the title,
>> which in turn, sets the two properties I've mentioned.
>>
>> This would actually be more useful to me than just this one case...
>> It wold lend itself, for example, to setting unique properties on
>> several different terminal types I use (ie, "root terminal", "plain
>> terminal", "screen", etc.)
>
> Most good terminals take a -name option, so you can do
> xterm -name foobar
> or
> urxvt -name foobar
> and match on <application name="foobar">.
Sure enough, this terminal (aterm) does allow setting the name. I'd
just missed it in the man page.
Thanks for the pointer!
// George
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