Re: Need help getting a hold of lisp

[Ewan Mellor <sawfish ewanmellor org uk>]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:24:34PM +0000, dataangel wrote:

> I think I'm misunderstanding how hooks are supposed to work. I want 
> sawfish to detect when I open XMMS and to remove the equalizer and 
> playlist from the alt+tab cycle list. But when I put the code below into 
> my ~/.sawfishrc, sawfish stopped managing all windows :P Help?
> 
> (add-hook 'before-add-window-hook 
> 
>      (lambda (w descr)
> 
>        (if (or (string-match-re "XMMS Equalizer" (window-name w))
> 
>            (string-match-re "XMMS Playlist" (window-name w)))
> 
>        (toggle-window-cycle-skip w))))

I don't know what the problem is with the Lisp, off the top of my head, but
the solution is to use "Matched Windows" instead.  Start the sawfish-ui
program, and look under the Matched Windows pane.  Everything you want is
under the Add button there.

HTH,

Ewan.