Re: [Notion-general] How to open app window where app was started?

[Arnout E. <ar...@bz...>]

I don't think there's a 'standard' way to do that.
http://raboof.github.io/notion/tour/#specifying-that-a-certain-program-should-always-be-in-a-certain-frame
might be of interest to you, though it solves a different problem.

I do think it would be interesting to be able to do this (don't worry, I
won't make it default behaviour :) ). Let's see what would be needed:

- when an application is started from the notion prompt, remember:
-- the pid of the spawned process
-- the workspace (or even frame) on which the prompt was shown
- when the application maps a window
-- put it on the right workspace

Now to put the window on the right workspace, we'll have to know the PID of
the application that spawned the PID, and go up the process hierarchy until
we find the pid of the spawned process saved above.

'Finding the PID of the process mapping the window' might also be tricky.
There is the _NET_WM_PID property - is that accessible already when the
window is mapped, or is that added later? And (how) will requesting
the _NET_WM_PID property affect performance?

For applications started e.g. from a terminal, we'd have to find the window
on which the terminal was mapped, and then open the new window on the same
workspace where that window is. This is even harder, as that PID could have
multiple windows open, and those windows could be mapped on multiple
workspaces. But for the simple case 'this PID is associated with windows on
just one workspace', it could work. I suppose we should monitor this by
keeping track of changes to _NET_WM_PID, too?


Kind regards,

Arnout

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Alexey Khmara <ale...@gm...>
wrote:

> I often start some application (using Notion command line) and then switch
> to another workspace. Then window of this application appears in workspace
> I switched to. Is there any way to force it to open where it was started?
>
> --
> With best regards
> Alex Khmara
>
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