make tiling/floating/maximising flexible, floating by default

[etc/awesome.git] / .config / awesome / rc.lua

diff --git a/.config/awesome/rc.lua b/.config/awesome/rc.lua
index 8d95a9f70bb04cc06bfeb2b87e27506eb739e5d3..580024229f8c2434eb57898ad001236b5519a4cc 100644 (file)
--- a/.config/awesome/rc.lua
+++ b/.config/awesome/rc.lua
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ layouts =
 -- the application class or instance. The instance is useful when running
 -- a console app in a terminal like (Music on Console)
 --    xterm -name mocp -e mocp
+-- OVERRULED BY TILEDAPPS BELOW
 floatapps =
 {
     -- by class
@@ -51,12 +52,29 @@ floatapps =
     ["Play stream"] = true
 }
 
+-- Applications that should never float, assuming everything else floats
+-- (by instance)
+tiledapps =
+{
+    ["urxvt"] = true
+}
+
+-- Applications that should be maximised
+-- (by instance)
+maxapps =
+{
+    ["Navigator"] = true,
+    -- jpilot is -v
+    ["-v"] = true
+}
+
 -- Applications to be moved to a pre-defined tag by class or instance.
 -- Use the screen and tags indices.
 apptags =
 {
     ["Iceweasel"] = { screen = 1, tag = 9 },
-    ["jpilot"] = { screen = 1, tag = 8 },
+    -- jpilot is -v
+    ["-v"] = { screen = 1, tag = 8 },
 }
 
 -- Define if we want to use titlebar on all applications.
@@ -399,6 +417,7 @@ function hook_manage(c)
     client.focus = c
 
     -- Check if the application should be floating.
+    -- OVERRIDDEN, SEE tiledapps BELOW
     local cls = c.class
     local inst = c.instance
     if floatapps[cls] then
@@ -407,6 +426,9 @@ function hook_manage(c)
         c.floating = floatapps[inst]
     end
 
+    -- Override with tiledapps
+    c.floating = not tiledapps[inst]
+
     -- Check application->screen/tag mappings.
     local target
     if apptags[cls] then
@@ -421,6 +443,11 @@ function hook_manage(c)
 
     -- Honor size hints
     c.honorsizehints = true
+
+    -- Maximise some
+    if maxapps[inst] then
+      awful.client.maximize(c)
+    end
 end
 
 -- Hook function to execute when arranging the screen