use xprop to get info about a window
Created: Jul 27,
2020Published: Mar 28,
2023Last modified: Apr 05,
2023
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In writing rules for handling clients AwesomeWM, I found I needed to somehow identify running applications. There's some magic for how that works, mostly relate to a bunch of X-things. Whatever those are, right?
Today it was `xprop`, via `yay -Sy xorg-xprop`.
Click on any open window to see a print out, including classname, role, and title.
Still feel I need better chrome title control, but via emacsclient, you can set
frame titles at creation time like so: