tab autogrouping not working with mozilla-thunderbird

[sillysloft]

Tab autogrouping is working with all my other apps (eg xterm, galeon, gimp, gnome-terminal), but when i start up mozilla-thunderbird, it's not getting added to the tab group.

As the doco instructs, I ran the 'xprop' command to get the name which fluxbox should recognise - in this case, "Thunderbird-bin". Still no good.

I've tried numerous possibilities in the ~/.fluxbox/groups file, such as thunderbird, thunderbird-bin, mozilla-thunderbird, etc etc, but still no good.

Am I missing something, or is this a bug?

Reported by: davidmcnab

[sillysloft]

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Sorry I omitted this before:

My system info: Fluxbox: v0.9.10 OS: Debian unstable x86 X: xserver-xfree86 4.3 Mozilla-thunderbird: 0.8

Original comment by: davidmcnab

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Hi,

The old grouping method isn't very reliable or robust. Can you try the new apps method, it goes something like (in ~/.fluxbox/apps):

[group] [app] (appname) [app] (another_appname) ... [end]

After all the [app] listing you can also specify regular remember stuff (like deco, size, etc) for the group.

Advantages of this method: - you can have spaces in the names - the names can include regular expressions - you can match on other things besides the WM_CLASS, by specifying as such: (title=something). There are a few different things to match on.

Cheers,

- Simon

Original comment by: rathnor

[sillysloft]

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I tried this new apps method, but it works just the same as the groups file - all the apps get tabbed into the same frame successfully, except for mozilla thunderbird.

Here's my ~/.fluxbox/apps file:

[group] [app] (thunderbird) [app] (mozilla-thunderbird) [app] (thunderbird-bin) [app] (galeon) [app] (xterm) [app] (gimp) [end]

Cheers David

Original comment by: davidmcnab

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is it because:

xprop WM_CLASS WM_NAME WM_CLASS(STRING) = "Gecko", "Thunderbird-bin" WM_NAME(STRING) = "Mail & Newsgroups"

which means that it would be

[app] (class=Thunderbird-bin)

?

Original comment by: akir

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Original comment by: akir