I3 Window Manager Applications Wont go to the assigned desktop[solved]

Question

I have played with this configuration for a while now and I can't figure out why some applications go where I tell them to and some don't.
These are my current programs that wont go to the directed desktop either through hot keys or if I try to launch at boot.
nmcpp -- Tried using urxvt but then I thought that might be confussing the issue so I changed to lxterminal and same issue.
Thunar -- is an issue as well . I was using dolphin and that obeyed the syntax but I prefer Thunar.
i3 - config file -->
http://pastebin.com/u/jv2112
Any ideas ?
Thanks in advance for your response.
Last edited by jv2112 (2013-08-10 02:33:47)

Answer 1

jv2112 wrote:
Changing Thunar designation to class did the trick.  -- > Thank You !!! progandy.
Still working on ncmpcpp.  No dice with this change ...
bindsym XF86_Tools exec --no-startup-id urxvt -title urxvt -e ncmpcpp
assign [class="urxvt"] "3 : Tunes"
See: http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#command_criteria
For your case, I believe you'd want to use -name for urxvt.
bindsym XF86_Tools exec urxvt -name ncmpcpp -e ncmpcpp
assign [instance="ncmpcpp"] "3 : Tunes"
Edit: Also, you might find this script useful. It requires libnotify and a notification daemon. I have it bound like this:
bindsym --release $mod+F1 exec --no-startup-id xprop_notify
I just press Mod4 + F1 then click on a window and it reports the instance, class, and role of the window via dunst.
The command criteria are case-sensitive, so the reason why assign [class="urxvt"] ... wasn't working for you is because by default the class for urxvt is URxvt. And urxvt -title doesn't change the class, it just changes the title of the window.
Last edited by Ledti (2013-08-03 04:48:23)