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SOLVED: River WM - Find an app-id (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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This is my second "I feel like a complete idiot" question of the week, so thank you for your patience.

How does one find an app-id, e.g., for setting up window rules in my window manager (River)? For example, if I'm using Nautilus as a file manager and I wanted to have the Nautilus Previewer window float by defining a River WM rule, I can do every bit of that trivially, other than identifying the app-id. (In this case, I believe it's org.gnome.NautilusPreviewer, but I'm looking for a general case.) Please note this question is about Wayland and not X.

I dropped into GNOME and viewed active windows with Looking Glass (lg), but that seems like a silly workflow just to ID a window.

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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think https://git.sr.ht/~leon_plickat/lswt may work.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Can you provide a little more info? I cant even see how to install this from the provided link, nor what it does.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    The repository has Makefile so you can build the executable with make:

    $ cd /tmp
$ git clone https://git.sr.ht/~leon_plickat/lswt
$ cd lswt
$ make
$ ./lswt
$ sudo make install (optional)
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    • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I dropped into GNOME

    And I dropped into a Qtile X11 session and used xprop! I'm not sure if river provides a native way to do that.

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