Fluxbox's Tab Autogrouping

Dtsazza · 01-29-2006, 07:24 AM

Hi,

Has anyone got Fluxbox's 'Tab Autogrouping' feature to work properly? Specifically, I'd like it to work (kind of like their example) so that Firefox and Thunderbird are tabbed, and so that all my consoles (urxvt) are autotabbed. My ~/.fluxbox/groups file is

Code:

Firefox-bin Mozilla-thunderbird-bin
URxvt

and the names were obtained with xprop |awk '/WM_CLASS/{print $4}', as recommended in the document. The relevant bits of my init file are

Code:

adoyle@minerva:~$ cat ~/.fluxbox/init | grep tab && cat ~/.fluxbox/init | grep group
session.tabsAttachArea:	Window
session.tabs:	true
session.tabPadding:	0
session.screen0.sloppywindowgrouping:	true
session.groupFile:	~/.fluxbox/groups

which looks all fine and dandy to me.

Does anyone else have auto-tab working, and if so, can you point to anything that I might be missing?

Cheers,
Andrzej

dracolich · 01-29-2006, 12:29 PM

your groups and init files look ok. The part that's not documented as well is that you have to add an entry in the ~/.fluxbox/apps file to tell fb to allow tabbing for the app. Soething like

[App]
class=Firefox-bin
Tab yes
[App]

Dtsazza · 01-29-2006, 12:39 PM

Aha, sounds a lot like it...

Edit: Mmm, but I still can't get it to work. Given the syntax of the file, and the search result here (big, and not very relevant, but it does contain the bold text below), it seems that the right syntax is

Code:

[app] (firefox-bin)
  [Tab]	 {yes}
[end]

but this still doesn't seem to be working. I edited the file outside of X to make sure it stayed edited (that's got me in the past), and I've removed options to remember size/position of the FF and TBird windows, in case they somehow get incompatible. FF is the only window open on my current workspace and most recently had the focus before I opened a menu to fire up TBird, but I'm still not getting the auto-grouping. This seems strange, I might have to see if the source has any clues...

Thanks for the pointer though!

dracolich · 01-29-2006, 01:05 PM

I just got back to my laptop. Here's what I have in mine

~/.fluxbox/apps

[app](class=Firefox-bin) {1}
[Tab] {yes}
[end]

~/.fluxbox/groups

firefox-bin

The contents of groups is case-sensitive. It's the names of the binaries that start the apps, but the class= in apps is the output of xprop.

Dtsazza · 01-29-2006, 01:08 PM

I just got there myself. There was a case mismatch between what was in the apps and groups files (found after testing with xterm which is naturally all lowercase). Since fluxbox created the entry in the apps file itself, it obviously internally thinks of those apps as lowercase, and xprop WM_CLASS seems to say that X itself is happy with the lowercase version.

As am I - after lowercasing the entries in the groups file, I can now get my windows to tab. Thanks for helping me sort out something that'd been bugging me for a while!

fortezza · 02-19-2006, 03:43 PM

Weird, I did not need to touch the apps file, just the groups file. Here is my line for grouping konquere, Thunderbird, and Firefox:
Gecko konqueror

And thats all. Note that Thunderbird and Firefox both show up as "Gecko", which means if you autogroup one, you are autogrouping the other.