Re: Devilspie2 report only one value of WM_CLASS

[Darren Salt]

I demand that Alexandros Prekates may or may not have written...

> I start a program with :
> $ qutebrowser --qt-arg name qbclang

> and inspecting with xprop -spy i see :
> WM_CLASS(STRING) = "qbclang", "qutebrowser"

> But devilspie2 in debug mode will report:
> Application: qutebrowser
> Window: C reference - cppreference.com - qutebrowser (a website i've
> loaded) 
> Class: qutebrowser

> And indeed the following rule cant catch it:

> if (string.find(get_window_class(),"qbclang") ~= nil)  then
>     -- x,y, xsize, ysize
>     set_window_workspace(3);
>     set_window_geometry(2000,480,600,1000);
> end

> So is there is a way to use the second value of WM_CLASS ?

There is now (given WNCK 3).

You want get_class_instance_name() for one of the two strings and
get_class_group_name() for the other.