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conformal / spectrwm

A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
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wrong workspace for programs started from xfce4-terminal #508

Closed christophgil closed 9 months ago

christophgil commented 2 years ago

Thanks for this excellent WM!

When I launch X11 programs from the command line like xeyes they will appear at the Workspace where the first xfce4-terminal was launched instead of the current WS.

This might be because running xfce4-terminal does not create an own instance of xfce4-terminal. Consequently, the PID of xfce4-terminal will guide spectrwm to the wrong workspace.

Workaround: When starting xfce4 terminals with the following line, things are fine. /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal --disable-server

Another minor issue is that the workspace numbers start counting at 1 and are shifted with regard to wmctrl -l I use this command to identify the WS of a Window. AFAIK, spectrwm does not have its own method to find and jump to Windows?

Cheers

Christoph

vacuumbeef commented 1 year ago

Looks like I encountered the same problem with alacritty terminal. I have the same problem when opening nsxiv and mpv.

LordReg commented 9 months ago

See the SWMHACK section of the man page (added in 3.5.1) for more information about spawn-in-workspace behavior and possible workarounds to these sort of issues.

As for the workspace numbering, spectrwm counts from 1, to match the default number key bindings. wmctrl is different because Extended Window Manager Hints _NET_WM_DESKTOP counts from 0.

It is possible to find/jump to windows by using the search_win action (M-f).