Re: [dwm] How to detect TAG activity?

From: <veselin_AT_campbell-lange.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:17:51 +0000

Hi Premysl,
your app works perfectly,
I've set Kopete to execute:

wmu 1 `xwininfo -int -name "Kopete"|egrep "Window\ id:"|cut -d' ' -f4`

upon new messages.

Thank you.

Veselin

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 05:17:29PM +0100, Premysl Hruby wrote:
> On (03/11/08 16:02), veselin_AT_campbell-lange.net wrote:
> > To: dwm mail list <dwm_AT_suckless.org>
> > From: veselin_AT_campbell-lange.net
> > Subject: Re: [dwm] How to detect TAG activity?
> > Reply-To: dwm mail list <dwm_AT_suckless.org>
> > List-Id: dwm mail list <dwm.suckless.org>
> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)
> >
> > Thanks for the tips guys.
> >
> > Kopete does not seem to set the URGENT flag but it
> > offers tha ability to launch an app when a new message is received.
> >
> > Would it be possible to write a shell script that sends an "URGENT" flag to a specific
> > window/tag ?
> >
> > Veselin
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 03:48:25PM +0100, Premysl Hruby wrote:
> > > On (03/11/08 14:05), veselin_AT_campbell-lange.net wrote:
> > > > To: dwm_AT_suckless.org
> > > > From: veselin_AT_campbell-lange.net
> > > > Subject: [dwm] How to detect TAG activity?
> > > > Reply-To: dwm mail list <dwm_AT_suckless.org>
> > > > List-Id: dwm mail list <dwm.suckless.org>
> > > > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > > I'm using dwm-5.2, my question is related to window events that
> > > > trigger the change of the TAG color, I have a messenger (pidgin) which
> > > > triggers that event whenever a new message is received and another
> > > > messenger (kopete) which does not.
> > > >
> > > > Could you please advise me how do applications trigger
> > > > the changing of the TAG colour?
> > > >
> > > > Does dwm listen for some special event signal or similar?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you.
> > > > Veselin
> > > >
> > >
> > > It is triggered by Urgency hint, which is something like flag "heey, I
> > > have something urgent for user", which every window can setup (on it's
> > > own). You can also set it up for any window, if you know window ID.
> > >
> > > -Ph
> > >
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> I wrote application which can set urgency tag to given window. But you
> must know that window id, dunno if you can get it from kopete in some
> simple way -- if not, you must write/find program which call XQueryTree
> and return window id of searched window.
>
> http://www.redrum.cz/hg/wmu
>
> -Ph
>
> --
> Premysl "Anydot" Hruby, http://www.redrum.cz/
>
Received on Tue Nov 04 2008 - 10:17:51 UTC

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