commit e7c345285a7ba9c2db7ef3e633910d16b25929c9
Author: Eddie Thieda <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Dec 11 15:12:16 2019 -0500
Update dwm customisation rules and add secondary display startup tag
example.
diff --git a/dwm.suckless.org/customisation/rules/index.md
b/dwm.suckless.org/customisation/rules/index.md
index ac2b20c1..5139dc28 100644
--- a/dwm.suckless.org/customisation/rules/index.md
+++ b/dwm.suckless.org/customisation/rules/index.md
@@ -3,24 +3,27 @@ Setting rules in config.h
What does '`rules`' do?
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-The `rules` array allows to treat certain applications (clients) in a special
-way. A rule has a matching and an action part. When a new client appears (sends
+The `rules` array allows treating of certain applications (clients) uniquely.
+A rule has a matching and an action part. When a new client appears (sends
a maprequest), it is matched against the rules based on its class, instance
-(`WM_CLASS`) and title (`WM_NAME`) properties and then the given tag and
+(`WM_CLASS`) and title (`WM_NAME`) properties and then the given tag with
floating mode setting actions are performed. The default tag mask is `0`, which
-means the currently viewed tags, and the default mode is tiled so isfloating is
-`False`.
+means the currently viewed tags and the default mode is tiled so isfloating is
+`False` or `0`.
Example from the default config:
static Rule rules[] = {
/* class instance title tags mask isfloating
monitor */
- { "Gimp", NULL, NULL, 0, True,
-1 },
- { "Firefox", NULL, NULL, 1 << 8, True,
-1 },
+ { "Gimp", NULL, NULL, 0, 1,
-1 },
+ { "Firefox", NULL, NULL, 1 << 8, 1,
-1 },
+ { "Telegram", NULL, NULL, 1 << 7, 0
0 }
};
These rules make every Gimp and Firefox window floating and makes Firefox
-windows appear on tag 9 instead of the currently viewed tags.
+window appear on tag 9 instead of the currently viewed tag.
+Telegram similiarly displays its window on tag 8 for a secondary display
+monitor.
How does the matching work?
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