Finding Dmenu's window class?

Question

Normally I would simply run xprop in a terminal and click on the window in question with the cross hairs. However, for the dmenu  "window" this procedure yields no result. Any idea how I could find dmenu window class so I can style and position it using devilspie2?
I already tried a few obvious guesses for dmenu's window class. "Dmenu_run," "dmenu" and "Dmenu" don't work.
Last edited by marko2010 (2014-05-25 21:35:00)

Answer 1

dmenu does not set these properties.
What are you trying to change with devilspie?  You know dmenu can be configured for most things you'd want to change?
If you need to use devilspie, you could just add a resource class declaration to the dmenu code and recompile.
Just add the following 5 lines at line 609 in dmenu.c (changing a_name and a_class to be whatever you want them to be):
XClassHint *hint = XAllocClassHint();
hint->res_name = "a_name";
hint->res_class = "a_class";
XSetClassHint(dc->dpy, win, hint);
XFree(hint);
Last edited by Trilby (2014-05-25 21:53:11)