Awesome v4.3. Trying to launch something in rc.lua.
awful.spawn("xterm", {
border_width = 0,
titlebars_enabled = false,
tag = "2",
placement = awful.placement.bottom_right,
})
xterm spawns, but the listed propertis make no effect on the xterm window. Am I missing something?
xterm doesn't support the startup notification protocol needed for this to work. Please consider rxvt-unicode (often called urxvt) as a drop-in replacement. It is often faster than xterm and has more features.
If you really want xterm, the client.startup_id documentation provides a workaround to force applications that don't support startup notification to work anyway. In some case, this patch can make the problem worst so it cannot be applied by default. Using applications that comply with the protocol should always be the first choice.
(note to other people reading this in the future: Please consider upgrading to awesome 4.3 or newer. AwesomeWM 4.0-4.2 has a bug regarding this feature and the execution order of the property can clash with the one provided by the awful.rules)