Awesome: awful.spawn not respecting properties

[michaelmyc]

Output of awesome --version:

awesome v4.2 (Human after all)
• Compiled against Lua 5.3.5 (running with Lua 5.3)
• D-Bus support: ✔
• execinfo support: ✔
• xcb-randr version: 1.6
• LGI version: 0.9.2

How to reproduce the issue:

awesome-client 'awful=require("awful"); awful.util.spawn(terminal.." -e sleep 10", { minimized=true, hidden=true })'

Actual result:

A terminal that runs sleep spawns that is not minimized nor hidden.

Expected result:

The terminal window should be minimized and hidden from task bar.

[michaelmyc]

Tried updating to git version of awesome as mentioned in #1937 . Didn't work.

awesome v4.2-525-g7d097691 (Human after all)
• Compiled against Lua 5.3.5 (running with Lua 5.3)
• D-Bus support: ✔
• execinfo support: ✔
• xcb-randr version: 1.6
• LGI version: 0.9.2

[psychon]

Which terminal are you using? Does it support startup-notification (e.g. does it depend on libstartup-notification?) E.g., xterm does not support startup-notification and thus awesome can by default not figure out which new window belongs to which command that was started.

[michaelmyc]

I'm using lxterminal.

[psychon]

Per https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/2491#issuecomment-449576509, that does not support startup-notification.
(Some more detail on what SN is: When awesome starts something, it sets some environment variable. The value of that variable is saved as a property on the window that shows up. That way awesome can now where the new window belongs to, even when multiple new windows show up at the same time.)

[michaelmyc]

Hmm. What terminal should I switch to to get support for that?

[michaelmyc]

Ah, nvm. Seems that xfce4-terminal works through the notification test.

[michaelmyc]

Confirmed that xfce4-terminal works for this purpose. Thanks!

[xor512]

Created https://github.com/lxde/lxterminal/issues/62

[OliverLew]

Is there a work around for this? I am switching from urxvt to st (Simple Terminal). However a keybinding to launch a floating, centered terminal window does not work with st due to the reason mentioned here.

P.S. After applying the hack in https://awesomewm.org/doc/api/classes/client.html#client.startup_id, the following command still starts a tiling window:

awesome-client 'require("awful.spawn")("st", {floating = true})'

$ awesome -v
awesome v4.3 (Too long)
 • Compiled against Lua 5.3.5 (running with Lua 5.3)
 • D-Bus support: ✔
 • execinfo support: ✔
 • xcb-randr version: 1.6
 • LGI version: 0.9.2

[actionless]

@OliverLew another workaround would be to run st as st -c st_float

and in awful.rules to make a rule for st_float class to be floating = true

[OliverLew]

@actionless it works perfectly. Haven't thought of this before. Thx!

Edit: not quite perfect actually. The downside is that the floating state will be persistent after awesome restart even if I have changed it to tiling (because the window class won't change accordingly). Can't think of a hack for this yet.