Rules in Qtile

[bknight2k]

Hi,

I am moving from BSPWM to Qtile but I am trying figure if rules are supported but I can find anything on the Qtile documentation.

What I am trying to do is have rules that will send certain applications to specific desktops. Eg send firefox to desktop 2

On bspwm I would do something like this

bspc rule -a firefox desktop=‘^2’

[xircon]

@hook.subscribe.client_new
def client_new(client):
    if client.name == 'Firefox':
        client.togroup('2')

http://docs.qtile.org/en/latest/manual/ref/hooks.html#libqtile.hook.subscribe.client_new

[bknight2k]

Doesn’t seem to work for me.

Not sure if it’s because I changed groups to

groups = [
Group(“1”, label=“”),
Group(“2”, label=“”),
Group(“3”, label=“”),
Group(“4”, label=“”),
Group(“5”, label=“”),
Group(“6”, label=“”),
Group(“7”, label=“”),
Group(“8”, label=“﵂”),
Group(“9”, label=“”),
]

[xircon]

It is still Group 2 regardless of the label - have you tried logging in / out?

[bknight2k]

Yes tried rebooting the system with no luck

[bknight2k]

Got it working thanks the help

[pannet1]

how ?

[bknight2k]

This does work but case does matter with linux

if client.name == ‘firefox’:
client.togroup(“2”)

at the end of if statement i have the following logger code
else:
logger.warning(client)

which pipes the application name (client) to ./local/share/qtile/qtile.log

for the logger you will need to add the following import
from libqtile.log_utils import logger