Leftwm: A few questions

[Stanislav-Lapata]

Sorry, I just started to study window managers.

1. How to run a program in a specific tab using leftwm?
2. How to display a pop-up message using notify-send?

Thank you

[lex148]

Like most other tiling window managers, LeftWM expects that you will have a program launcher installed. Two very common launchers are dmenu and rofi. I would recommend installing both and seeing which one you like better.

To switch between them you will need to edit the file in your home folder at:
~/.config/leftwm/config.toml

By default (Mod+p) will open the app launcher.

LeftWM is capable of seeing alert messages from programs like notify-send
All you should need to do is:
1) open a terminal (Mod+Shift+Enter)
2) run: notify-send "the text to display"

Hope this helps,
-Lex

[Stanislav-Lapata]

Sorry for my English. How to run a program at startup leftwm in specific tab? need use theme script up?
Thank you for your patience :)

[lex148]

No problem. I'm happy to help.

If all you want to do is autostart a program such as firefox I would recommend creating a .desktop file in the folder ~/.config/autostart
Here is some good documentation on how ~/.config/autostart works:
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/0.5/ar01s02.html
Unfortunately there is no way of telling LeftWM which Tag a program should use when it starts.

If you are creating a theme and want to use a program such as conky or polybar or xmobar, then using the themes "up" file is very appropriate. For these programs you will need to work in there respective config files to position them.
Here is an example of how I position polybar in the default theme:
https://github.com/leftwm/leftwm/blob/master/themes/basic_polybar/polybar.config

Hope this helps,
-Lex

[Stanislav-Lapata]

thanks for answers
Who should deal with determining in which tab to open a particular program? Window manager or other program?

[lex148]

That is absolutely the job of the window manager. Some window managers allow you to create a setting that moves a window to a specific (tab/tag) when the window opens. LeftWM does not. It always uses the currently active tab.

[xircon]

 [[keybind]]
 command = "Execute"
  value = "xdotool key Super_L+3 && firefox"
  modifier = ["modkey"]
  key = "f"

Launches firefox on desktop 3.