Hi, On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:01:47PM +0200, Pascal Wittmann wrote: > I tried to write a function that spawns a window/client and makes it > floating, but with no success. I looked a the spawn function, but I > have no idea how to get/alter the isfloating value of the new client. > Simply taking the selected one won't work. > > Example of use: You are reading a something in fullscreen and want to > try some code snippet or do some computations, I find it useful to > have a terminal (or someting else) floating around. > > I could gain the same effect by switching the the layout to floating > and open the application then, but I wonder if its possible (without > big effort) to write such a function?
You could set a rule to match terminals based on title and mark them as floating, then use urxvt -T floatingwin or something to launch the term. I use the title matching trick a lot. S -- Sean Whitton / <s...@silentflame.com> OpenPGP KeyID: 0x3B6D411B http://seanwhitton.com/
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