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tudurom / windowchef

Window Chef is a stacking window manager that cooks windows with orders from the Waitron
https://tudorr.ro/software/windowchef/
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wmctrl issues #30

Closed zenlinux closed 7 years ago

zenlinux commented 7 years ago

Greetings.

I have the following in my sxhkdrc:

super + ctrl + e wmctrl -a emacs

super + ctrl + w wmctrl -a st

super + ctrl + q wmctrl -a vimperator

The problem is that it raises the window but keeps the focus ( keyboard input ) in the current window. Also to note : Right after I start the window manager using startx it works but after two or three super + ctrl + w etc it stops working.

Can you please check this?

Edit: Sometimes it keeps on working for a while and randomly stops working.

Edit for more info: I use tint2 with windowchef and after I close the last window the name still shows up in tint2. For e.g. startx -> start urxvt ( by pressing Super + Return ) -> start xterm ( from urxvt command line ).
Alt + Tab between windows and tint2 updates correctly. Close urxvt by typing exit. tint2 now shows only xterm ( which is the expected behaviour) Close xterm by typing exit. tint2 still shows xterm ( which is =not= the expected behaviour). I believe this is connected to the issue I described earlier.

tudurom commented 7 years ago

I don't know what kind of magic wmctrl uses to give focus to windows by workspace. Also, does the tint2 issue happen only when you use wmctrl? If no, then consider opening a new issue.

zenlinux commented 7 years ago

@tudurom Sorry for the late report. I have checked again and irrespective of whether I use wmctrl or xdo, I get the same erroneous behaviour.