Re: [STUMP] Totally confused about starting up applications...

[Stefan Reichör]

Bill Zimmerly <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello StumpWM Developers,
>
> My name is Bill Zimmerly and I am new to using this window manager.
>
> I think it shows tremendous promise as exactly the WM I've been looking
> for, but it's sometimes difficult to find the information I need to modify
> it.
>
> So far, I have a good .stumpwmrc file that does a lot of what I want to do
> in configuring stumpwm at startup, but there is one area that I find
> bewilderingly complex: startup applications and configuration of their
> windows! (Something that I can see is a STRENGTH of stumpwm, but I just
> can't seem to "grok" how.)
>
> Can someone show me some exact startup code that will do this? (See below)
>
> Workspace 1 (3 windows)
> Top/Left = Xterm
> Bottom/Left = Totem
> Right = Firefox
>
> Workspace 2 (2 windows)
> Left = Xterm
> Right = Emacs
>
> I also get confused by what exactly a "group" is. I think it's the same as
> a "workspace" in Gnome, for example, but I'm just not sure.

Take a look at my configuration:

http://www.xsteve.at/prg/stumpwm/

I don't start the applications at startup. However they are started
using run-or-raise when I first use them. I am happy with this approach.

You could try to use run-shell-command to start an application.

I use it for example to do this on startup:

(run-shell-command "setxkbmap -model evdev")



Stefan.