[xmonad] Scratchpad should match on class not on title

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Sun Jun 22 10:59:14 EDT 2008


On 2008 Jun 22, at 8:43, Dominik Bruhn wrote:

> I tried to change this by using "-name" instead of "-title" as  
> parameter for the
> terminal. This also adds a new WM_CLASS to the window named like the  
> parameter.
> This Class doesnt change if a application changes the title so  
> xmonad could
> match on this. I tried both urxvt and xterm, they both behave the  
> same way: if
> you supply "-name scratchpad" on the comandline a new WM_CLASS named
> "scratchpad" is added to the window.
>
> I tried to change it on my own by changing the commandline (this  
> worked without
> a problem) and then exchange the "scratchpadQuery" with
> scratchpadQuery = className =? "scratchpad"

You are (as is common) being confused by the fact that WM_CLASS is an  
array, and the *second* element is "className".  The first element (- 
name) is "resourceName".  (This and the fact that the title is WM_NAME  
are easily the most confusing parts of working with X11.)

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