stumpwm.stumpwm-contrib/util/urgentwindows

• Problem
• Usage

Problem

Almost all of is in these modern days have to (or want to) deal with more than one application simultaneously. This way, we want to start some activity in one app, go to another, do something here, and so on. At some moment a particular application activated previously, finishes its activity and you want to be aware of this fact to be able to activate it again and maybe start another activity after all. Luckily X Window system allows us to do this by mean of EWMH standard implementation.

Namely, application windows expecting rather immediate user action should indicate this using the urgency bit in the WM_HINTS.flags property, as defined in the ICCCM.

This contrib extension was written with purpose of providing the appropriate handles for this low-level xorg functionality to StumpWM.

Usage

Add this to your .stumpwmrc:

Load contrib module:

  (load-module "urgentwindows")

Then customize message text, if needed:

  (setf urgentwindows:*urgent-window-message* "application ~a has just finished its business!")

Make sure the proper formatting is used (single value placeholder needed, see above), otherwise error occurs.

And finally, use raise-urgent to focus urgent windows.