Spawning a command in specified group

[Milkias Yeheyis]

I was wondering if there was a way to run a command and have the window spawn in a chosen group. For example on startup, have firefox open in group 3. And note I don't want the window to always spawn on this group, just for this once so matches are not an option.

[Mike Erdely]

qtile run-cmd -g 3 firefox

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 12:03 PM Milkias Yeheyis <milkia...@gmail.com> wrote:

I was wondering if there was a way to run a command and have the window spawn in a chosen group. For example on startup, have firefox open in group 3. And note I don't want the window to always spawn on this group, just for this once so matches are not an option.

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[Milkias Yeheyis]

Tnx a lot. But is there a way to do it inside python to make it easier to write in config instead of system calls?

[me]

What I use is 

 Group('9', position=9, label='', spawn=['kitty -e ranger']),

 to start ranger on group 9 on start of qtile

But the problem i have with this is that I have a match for kitty on group 2, so when the ranger window gets spawned, it is moved to group 2. I haven't found a way around that yet.

[Milkias Yeheyis]

Thanks a lot that might work for me. As for your problem, you should just do kitty --class "{somename} -e ranger instead of the previous command on the spawn list. This would create a kitty terminal with a different wm_class than kitty.