Groups

A group is a container for a bunch of windows, analogous to workspaces in other window managers. Each client window managed by the window manager belongs to exactly one group. The groups config file variable should be initialized to a list of DGroup objects.

DGroup objects provide several options for group configuration. Groups can be configured to show and hide themselves when they’re not empty, spawn applications for them when they start, automatically acquire certain groups, and various other options.

class libqtile.config.Match(title=None, wm_class=None, role=None, wm_type=None, wm_instance_class=None, net_wm_pid=None)[source]

Match for dynamic groups It can match by title, class or role.

__init__(title=None, wm_class=None, role=None, wm_type=None, wm_instance_class=None, net_wm_pid=None)[source]

Match supports both regular expression objects (i.e. the result of re.compile()) or strings (match as a “include” match). If a window matches any of the things in any of the lists, it is considered a match.

Parameters:
  • title – things to match against the title (WM_NAME)
  • wm_class – things to match against the second string in WM_CLASS atom
  • role – things to match against the WM_ROLE atom
  • wm_type – things to match against the WM_TYPE atom
  • wm_instance_class – things to match against the first string in WM_CLASS atom
  • net_wm_pid – things to match against the _NET_WM_PID atom (only int allowed in this rule)
class libqtile.config.Group(name, matches=None, exclusive=False, spawn=None, layout=None, layouts=None, persist=True, init=True, layout_opts=None, screen_affinity=None, position=9223372036854775807)[source]

Represents a “dynamic” group. These groups can spawn apps, only allow certain Matched windows to be on them, hide when they’re not in use, etc.

__init__(name, matches=None, exclusive=False, spawn=None, layout=None, layouts=None, persist=True, init=True, layout_opts=None, screen_affinity=None, position=9223372036854775807)[source]
Parameters:
  • name (string) – the name of this group
  • matches (default None) – list of Match objects whose windows will be assigned to this group
  • exclusive (boolean) – when other apps are started in this group, should we allow them here or not?
  • spawn (string or list of strings) – this will be exec() d when the group is created, you can pass either a program name or a list of programs to exec()
  • layout (string) – the default layout for this group (e.g. ‘max’ or ‘stack’)
  • layouts (list) – the group layouts list overriding global layouts
  • persist (boolean) – should this group stay alive with no member windows?
  • init (boolean) – is this group alive when qtile starts?
  • position (int) – group position
libqtile.dgroups.simple_key_binder(mod, keynames=None)[source]

Bind keys to mod+group position or to the keys specified as second argument.

Example

from libqtile.config import Group, Match
groups = [
    Group("a"),
    Group("b"),
    Group("c", matches=[Match(wm_class=["Firefox"])]),
]

# allow mod3+1 through mod3+0 to bind to groups; if you bind your groups
# by hand in your config, you don't need to do this.
from libqtile.dgroups import simple_key_binder
dgroups_key_binder = simple_key_binder("mod3")