[openbox] Launching applications

Manolo Martínez manolo at austrohungaro.com
Tue Oct 4 16:16:17 EDT 2011


On 10/04/11 at 10:11pm, Manolo Martínez wrote:
> On 10/04/11 at 07:18pm, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Dana Jansens <dana at orodu.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > % urxvt -name hi
> > > % wmctrl -xa hi
> > > worked for me.
> > >
> Works great, thank you. For future reference, I'm using "sh -c 'wmctrl -x mutt
> || urxvt -name mutt -e mutt'
> 

I meant "sh -c 'wmctrl -xa mutt || urxvt -name mutt -e mutt" *eyeroll*

> > Aha!
> > One can also do "urxvt -name hi -title Mutt" and then "wmctrl -xa hi"
> > 
> > Now it remains the matter of vim changing titles, but that is another
> > issue, perhaps for the vim list.
> Actually, no, vim works in the same window, and it is still called mutt, so it
> all works. I think this is a pretty nice trick, and I can imagine more people
> would find it useful. I'll add it to a couple wikis, if you guys agree.
> 
> Manolo
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