Make floating the new default

we do exempt urxvt, firefox, icedove, chromium and gscan2pdf as those
are "regulars"…

diff --git a/.config/awesome/rc.lua b/.config/awesome/rc.lua
index a42ed9e4100dd628941d3a9a54f7fb7381307395..522fa11db44f4b89d18159d0935340c71c55e38e 100644 (file)
--- a/.config/awesome/rc.lua
+++ b/.config/awesome/rc.lua
@@ -536,37 +536,6 @@ awful.rules.rules = {
      }
     },
 
-    -- Floating clients.
-    { rule_any = {
-        instance = {
-            "DTA",  -- Firefox addon DownThemAll.
-            "copyq",  -- Includes session name in class.
-        },
-        class = {
-            "Arandr",
-            "Gpick",
-            "Kruler",
-            "MessageWin",  -- kalarm.
-            "Sxiv",
-            "Wpa_gui",
-            "pinentry",
-            "veromix",
-            "xtightvncviewer",
-            "MuPDF",
-            "vlc",
-            "Wicd-client.py",
-            "Blueman-manager"
-        },
-
-        name = {
-            "Event Tester",  -- xev.
-        },
-        role = {
-            "AlarmWindow",  -- Thunderbird's calendar.
-            "pop-up",       -- e.g. Google Chrome's (detached) Developer Tools.
-        }
-      }, properties = { floating = true }},
-
     -- Add titlebars to normal clients and dialogs
     --DISABLED-- { rule_any = {type = { "normal", "dialog" }
     --DISABLED--  }, properties = { titlebars_enabled = true }
@@ -577,6 +546,7 @@ awful.rules.rules = {
 
     { rule = { class = "URxvt" },
                properties = {
+                   floating = false,
                    size_hints_honor = false
                } },
     { rule = { class = "URxvt", instance = "irc" },
@@ -588,6 +558,7 @@ awful.rules.rules = {
            },
     { rule = { class = "Firefox" },
                properties = {
+                   floating = false,
 --                   screen = screen.count(),
 --                   tag = screen.count() == 1 and "2" or "1"
                },
@@ -595,6 +566,7 @@ awful.rules.rules = {
            },
     { rule = { class = "Icedove" },
                properties = {
+                   floating = false,
 --                   screen = screen.count(),
 --                   tag = screen.count() == 1 and "2" or "1"
                },
@@ -602,6 +574,7 @@ awful.rules.rules = {
            },
     { rule = { class = "chromium" },
                properties = {
+                   floating = false,
 --                   screen = screen.count(),
 --                   tag = screen.count() == 1 and "2" or "1"
                },
@@ -609,6 +582,7 @@ awful.rules.rules = {
            },
     { rule = { class = "Gscan2pdf" },
                properties = {
+                   floating = false,
                    screen = 1,
                    tag = "7"
                },