Re: Using metacity with libstartupnotify

[Seb James <seb esfnet co uk>]

On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 10:35 +0100, Seb James wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> I have a program launcher which starts up a program in a new thread. The
> launcher uses libstartupnotify to change the cursor to an
> eggtimer/watch. The launchee won't itself change the eggtimer back to a
> normal cursor, so metacity needs to do that for me. Metacity looks at
> the WM_CLASS atom and if it's present, it looks for a top level window
> of that name to appear.
> 
> The trouble I'm having is how to find the right "resource name" to set
> for a given program. How, for example would I find the right
> resource_name to set in WM_CLASS for an xterm?

I found that the answer to this is to set up .desktop files
in /usr/share/applications/ in which the lines

StartupNotify=false
StartupWMClass=xterm

do the trick.

Seb

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