tdrop: bspwm. tdrop opens the application on wrong desktop (bspc-monitor)

In order to reproduce this bug, do the following:

Twice execute (open & close) on particular bspc-monitor: tdrop -am -h 60% -w 50% -y 25 -x 25% app
Change bspc-monitor
Execute tdrop -am -h 60% -w 50% -y 25 -x 25% app again for opening on NEW monitor
You will be thrown to the previous monitor, and app will be open there

You can see example here

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Reactions: 1
Comments: 18 (16 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Fix activation window on another desktop - bspwm. issue #369 — committed to peskovdev/tdrop by peskovdev 2 years ago
Fix issue #369 — committed to peskovdev/tdrop by peskovdev 9 months ago
Run windowmap commands with --sync flag This will ensure that tdrop waits until the window is mapped before activating it. Otherwise tdrop can incorrectly focus another desktop. Fixes issue #369 — committed to peskovdev/tdrop by peskovdev 9 months ago

Most upvoted comments

I will investigate if there is some more generic solution. If not, I will merge your PR. Thanks!

noctuid on Nov 8, 2022

I found decision: you should to delete or comment 457 line of script. Also i forked and you can just take script from this repo: https://github.com/devpeskov/tdrop

Author said about this: “windowmap does not activate for all window managers” But in my case, without this line - everything is OK. Perhaps the author added this option to make tdrop work on little-known wm. But it broke script on bspwm.

peskovdev on Nov 6, 2022

I guess the Arch repositories have not updated the package there.

tdrop is not my package and is not supported or recommended. Use tdrop-git.

noctuid on Nov 22, 2023

Thanks all!

noctuid on Oct 3, 2023