[xmonad] Re: Cannot manage windows by title

[Alexey Feigin]

2009/9/15 Alexey Feigin <mysteriousentity at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> I would like to manage some windows depending on their *title* (WM_NАМЕ).
> I wrote a manage hook but it doesn't seem to be working (ie, the action is
> not performed).
>
> Matching by *className* and *resource* seems to work, but not by *title*.
>
> myManageHook = composeAll . concat $
>    [ [ fmap ("Gvim"        `isInfixOf`) className --> doFloat ]  -- Works
>    , [ fmap ("gvim"        `isInfixOf`) resource  --> doFloat ]  -- Works
>    , [ fmap ("journal.txt" `isInfixOf`) title     --> doFloat ]  -- Does
> not work
>    ]
>
> I also tried to use
> (stringProperty "WM_NAME")
>
> Any ideas?
>
> I'm running xmonad with GNOME on Ubuntu.
>
> Thanks in advance :)
>
> Alexey
>

I looked at the source of ManageHook and saw that *title* actually takes
_NET_WM_NAME if it exists. In the case of the gvim window I want to detect,
this property is in UTF8. Could that be why it's not matching up? And if so,
what can I do about it?

Alexey
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