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I've been trying to get these two keybindings to work on my Xmonad setup for a while now, but alas I have failed. I want thunderbird to spawn on a certain workspace and demenu to run on the workspace that is currently being viewed. Here is the relavent part of my current keybinding setup:

keys' conf@(XConfig {XMonad.modmask = modmask}) = M.fromList $
  [  ((modMask, xK_d), spawnOn "2:Web" "dwb")
  ,  ((modMask, xK-r), spawn "dmenu_run")
  ,  ((modMask, xK_e), spawnOn "3:Email" "Mail"
...other keybindings that work.....
  ]

The dwb keybinding does work. In the thunderbird one, in place of "Mail" I have also tried "thunderbird" and "Thunderbird" to no avail.

I would certainly appreciate it if anyone can make this work for me. It gets annoying opening up thunderbird from a terminal.

Harlequin144
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Whatever you type from the terminal to open Thunderbird should work as the third parameter of spawnOn. If all else fails, try the full path to the thunderbird executable.

For others who might google this, if don't know what to type in a terminal to launch a program, launch however you normally launch it (e.g. from a menu or using a key binding), and then type ps -ef to find the name of the command.

mhwombat
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  1. Try to replace "Mail" with "thunderbird"

    ,  ((modMask, xK_e), spawnOn "3:Email" "Mail"

    To

    ,  ((modMask, xK_e), spawnOn "3:Email" "thunderbird"

  2. If it still doesn't work, check if some other key configuration overwrite the key "e".

flyrain
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The default config maps (modMask, xK_e) to "Switch to physical/Xinerama screen 2". Be sure you disabled/changed it.

Andrea Scarpino
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Use the cli tool xprop and click on Thunderbird, it shows you the Class name of Thunderbird, which you need to place here:

,  ((modMask, xK_e), spawnOn "3:Email" "ClassName"
GiftZwergrapper
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