On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 10:13:11PM -0800, Spenser Truex wrote: > To me this seems like undesirable behaviour, since after opening a > program one has to wait for it to load before switching the current tag. > > Reproduction: > Run a program (eg. firefox) in tag 1 > Switch tag view before it loads to tag 2 > It gets labeled in tag 2, not tag 1. > > Expect: use tag 1, not 2. > > I can't imagine any way that this is desirable. I will try to patch a > fix later, seems like low hanging fruit.
This is completely unsurprising to me because dwm doesn't know about the application until a window gets created. Are there window managers that do NOT behave this way with respect to workspaces? I can think of ways you could work around this, but I wouldn't consider any of them low hanging fruit. What do you have in mind to address this? Eric