From 9066e265a220f8299afa60e1689f87efeb40ee10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sébastien Dailly <sebastien@dailly.me>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 15:35:44 +0200
Subject: bspwm: persistent option when creating placement rules for windows

---
 bspwm/scripts/bspwm/desktops.sh | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bspwm/scripts/bspwm/desktops.sh b/bspwm/scripts/bspwm/desktops.sh
index e94c084..b94d962 100755
--- a/bspwm/scripts/bspwm/desktops.sh
+++ b/bspwm/scripts/bspwm/desktops.sh
@@ -1,16 +1,33 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-set -u
+set -o nounset
 #set -e
 
 # Execute an application when creating the desktop
+# Arguments are :
+#   - The Dektop label
+#   - The command to run
+#   - The window class to match
+#   - Optionnal : 
+#       "persistent" make the rule persistent instead of one-shot
 # 
 run_desktop() {
     name=$1
-    application=$2
+    application="$2"
     window_name=$3
     bspc node @$name:/ -i
-    bspc rule --add $window_name --one-shot node=@$name:/ follow=off focus=off
+    # If the argument is not given, use the empty string as substitution
+    # FOO="${VARIABLE:-default}"  # FOO will be assigned 'default' value if
+                                  # VARIABLE not set or null.
+    case "${4:-}" in
+        persistent)
+            # Ensure the rule does not already exists before adding a new persistent one
+            bspc rule -l | grep ${window_name} || bspc rule --add ${window_name} node=@$name:/ follow=off focus=off
+            ;;
+        *)
+            bspc rule --add $window_name --one-shot node=@$name:/ follow=off focus=off
+            ;;
+    esac
     $application &
 }
 
@@ -33,7 +50,7 @@ bspc subscribe desktop | while read -r event monitor_id desktop_id name; do
             bspc monitor -o $(bspc query --names -D | sort -V | tr -s '\n' ' ')
             case $name in 
                 Chat)
-                    run_desktop $name signal-desktop Signal
+                    run_desktop $name signal-desktop "Signal:signal:Signal" persistent
                     ;;
                 Musique)
                     run_desktop $name gmpc Gmpc
@@ -45,7 +62,7 @@ bspc subscribe desktop | while read -r event monitor_id desktop_id name; do
                     run_desktop $name thunderbird thunderbird-default
                     ;;
                 Discord)
-                    run_desktop $name discord discord
+                    run_desktop $name discord discord persistent
                     ;;
             esac
             ;;
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