dotfiles/awesome/main/rules.lua

-- Standard awesome library
local awful     = require("awful")
-- Theme handling library
local beautiful = require("beautiful")

local _M = {}

-- reading
-- https://awesomewm.org/apidoc/libraries/awful.rules.html

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function _M.get(clientkeys, clientbuttons)
  local rules = {

    -- All clients will match this rule.
    { rule = { },
      properties = {
        border_width = beautiful.border_width,
        border_color = beautiful.border_normal,
        focus     = awful.client.focus.filter,
        raise     = true,
        keys      = clientkeys,
        buttons   = clientbuttons,
        screen    = awful.screen.preferred,
        placement = awful.placement.no_overlap+awful.placement.no_offscreen
      },
    },

    -- Floating clients.
    { rule_any = {
        instance = {
          "copyq",  -- Includes session name in class.
          "pinentry"
        },
        class = {
          "Tor Browser", -- Needs a fixed window size to avoid fingerprinting by screen size.
          "steamwebhelper",
          "mate-calc",
          "steam_app_2060480",
          "Alacritty",
          "discord",
          "Spotify"
        }, 

        -- Note that the name property shown in xprop might be set slightly after creation of the client
        -- and the name shown there might not match defined rules here.
        name = {
          "Friends List",
          "infinitefusion", -- Pokémon Infinite Fusion
          "Picture-in-picture",
          "review files to import", -- Hydrus import window
          "Spotify"
        },
        role = {
          "AlarmWindow",  -- Thunderbird's calendar.
          "ConfigManager",  -- Thunderbird's about:config.
          "pop-up",       -- e.g. Google Chrome's (detached) Developer Tools.
        }
      },
      properties = { 
        floating = true 
      }
    },

    -- Add titlebars to normal clients and dialogs
    { rule_any = {
        type = { "normal", "dialog" }
      }, 
      properties = { 
        titlebars_enabled = false
      }
    },

    -- Set Firefox to always map on the tag named "2" on screen 1.
    -- { rule = { class = "Firefox" },
    --   properties = { screen = 1, tag = "2" } },

  }

  return rules
end

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return setmetatable({}, { __call = function(_, ...) return _M.get(...) end })