[Haskell-beginners] Re: [xmonad] xmonad vs. full screen

Rickard Nilsson wrote:

Quoting Thomas Friedrich :

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2) I would propose going back to the old behavior of handling full-screen-programs in xmonad. It really should be the *user* who decides how "full-screen" a full-screen-program shall be. Isn't this also more following the philosophy of xmonad? You as a user decide, what is happening on your screen? It might be not as intuitive, when switching to xmonad and you are used to other WMs, where full-screen means *full screen*. I really miss that functionality, now that its gone. What do you think?

I think the old behaviour made much more sense. As it is now, it's not possible to play a web flash movie in a separate, arbitrarily sized, window. You either have to watch it fullscreen-floating, or integrated in the web-page.

@Thomas - Did you ever manage to revert Xmonad to the old behaviour?

No unfortunately I didn't. I changed my manageHook to myManageHookDef = scratchpadManageHook (W.RationalRect 0.25 0.375 0.5 0.35) <+> composeAll [ ... , isFullscreen --> doFullFloat , isDialog --> doCenterFloat ] This way, when I want to watch a Flash-Movie in full screen, the video window actually covers the full screen. However, the downside of it is that also xpdf and others start flouting when going to full screen. Which is stupid, as I always have to push them back into the tiling, when I want to have a "full screen" xpdf next to, say, emacs. Also you will have a little border around the flouting window, which doesn't look good in full screen. But I don't want to remove the borders from flouting windows, as I like to have a border, when a flouting window is not covering the whole screen. So as you see, the solution is far from optimal. Cheers, Thomas