[openbox] Launching applications

[Dana Jansens]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Manolo Martínez
> <manolo at austrohungaro.com> wrote:
> >
> > It would be nice to improve this solution in at least the following
> respect: when
> > editing a message in mutt, vim takes over and the window changes title,
> so that
> > wmctrl no longer recognises it. Taking
> > "-F" out would take care of that ("mutt" is part of the window title when
> vim
> > edits a mutt file), but with the drawback that if I were editing
> > , say, .muttrc, Alt+F5 would be fooled into raising *that* window. But,
> oh well, I think the
> > instruction as it stands is idiotproof enough for my own level of idiocy.
> >
>
> One idea that comes to mind is to edit the config of mutt in the place
> where you tell it what editor to use. Maybe you could tell mutt to use
> something like
>        /usr/bin/vim +c 'set title titlestring="Mutt"'
> I tried this from a terminal and it doesn't works as expected: the title
> becomes "set title...". You still get the string "Mutt", and so I guess
> it would work if you use something like "Muttwindow" to distinguish it
> from a window where .muttrc is being edited. But it's an ugly hack.
> What happens is that vim is following the behavior of bash: it puts the
> name of the command executed, or the current directory, if no command
> was provided, as title. Before entering interactive mode, bash
> executes the command contained in the env variable PROMPT_COMMAND, if
> set. In ArchLinux, it is set by /etc/bash.bashrc, and is an "echo
> some-stuff-with-escape-codes". I had to comment it
> out, and I think it was a bad idea, anyway. In vim, I don't know what
> configuration is causing this. Maybe someone else have some clue?
>

Unless I missed some important context.. use the terminal's name to find it
instead of the title?


> Cheers
>
> J.A.
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