[openbox] Launching applications

[Dana Jansens]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> > Unless I missed some important context.. use the terminal's name to
> find
> >> > it
> >> > instead of the title?
> >> >
> >>
> >> I'm not sure I understand, but if you mean something like "urxvt -name
> >> Mutt", how to use wmctrl to raise it? "wmctrl -a <WIN>" works as long as
> >> <WIN> contains a string we know of in advance, and the string must be
> >> contained in the window title. Any other alternative?
> >
> > Oh I guess it would have to be the class not the name with wmctrl -x.
> >
> This is the best I could do from what I understood from the manuals:
>
> urxvt -xrm aaa
>
> This starts an urxvt window, which I suppose belongs to the fake class
> aaa (?)
>

% obxprop|grep OB

would verify.


>
> Then "wmctrl -ax aaa" would raise the window. It doesn't.
>
>
% urxvt -name hi
% wmctrl -xa hi

worked for me.


>  J.A.
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