My goal is to let clients that have a parent spawn on the same tag as their parents. Clients w/o parents should spawn on the active tag (as usual).
My first approach is to connect a signal using client.connect_signal("manage", ...). However, I couldn't find a way to get the parent of a client or to check if it has a parent.
Thank you for taking a look at my problem!
Update 1: I found client:get_transient_for_matching (matcher), but the documentation is not very helpful.
Update 2: Thanks to Uli for the hint to use client::transient_for as an easier way to get the transient. Using
client.connect_signal("manage", function (c)
parent = c.transient_for
naughty.notify({ preset = naughty.config.presets.critical,
title = "Debug",
text = tostring(c.window) .. " " .. (parent and tostring(parent.window) or "") })
if parent then
-- move new client to same tag and screen as parent
tag = parent.first_tag
screen = parent.screen
c:move_to_tag(tag)
c:move_to_screen(screen)
end
end)
I tried to achieve my goals and added a simple debug output using notifications. Now, only a very few new clients actually have a transient that is not nil. E.g., spawning git gui from a terminal does not have a transient. However, I strongly believe it should (or I misunderstood what a transient is).
Ubuntu 20LTS, Awesome WM version 4.3-4, awesome-extra 2019021001
