April 2008 - xmonad - Haskell.org

darcs patch: _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW moves windows if necessary
by Joachim Breitner 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Hi, a small new patch... Joachim Wed Apr 2 16:38:11 CEST 2008 Joachim Breitner <mail(a)joachim-breitner.de> * _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW moves windows if necessary This makes EWMH behave a bit more like metacity: If _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW is received and the window is not on the current worspace, it is brought here (instead of the workspace switched to the other one). So for example, if you click on the pidgin icon in the panel and the buddy list is already open some where it is moved here.

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[OT] background image
by Roman Cheplyaka 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

I'm investigating how to make per-workspace backgrounds. On xmonad side solution is pretty simple using logHook (thanks #xmonad-ers for hints!) The other problem is the speed. Currently I use "qiv -z" to update the background (big jpeg photo) and it takes about 0.7-0.8s. Preliminary converting it to the size of display (1280x1024) gives 0.3-0.4s. It's still barely acceptable. So, how can I do better? Does X renders jpeg itself, or qiv converts jpeg to some other format? Then preliminary converting would also save the time. Any suggestions are welcome. -- Roman I. Cheplyaka (aka Feuerbach @ IRC)

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Disabling mouse focus
by Nathan Huesken 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Hi, At my current setup, the window-focus follows the mouse. I want the focus to completly ignore the mouse. Can this be done? Thanks! Nathan

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Re: http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Layout-IM.html
by Roman Cheplyaka 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

* Henning <henning(a)hasemail.de> [2008-04-01 15:20:34+0200] > > Thanks for this layout :) Its one of the number one reasons for me to > migrate to 0.7! > > From the TODO: > > > > All these items are questionable. Please let me know if you find them > > useful. > > > shrink/expand > Could be nice, but I would use it only rarely > > > allow roster placement on the right side or even on top/bottom > I'm used to have it on the right side. Top/Bottom might be nice for > other apps than IM's but I can't think of an example. > > > use arbitrary layout instead of grid > Grid is ok, but often I tend to have my IRC-Client on the same > workspace so Tabbed or similar would be cool. A really cool feature > would be a way to switch the "child layout", but I can imagine this > might not be that easy to implement. > > Henning > > -- > GPG Public Key: > http://gpg-keyserver.de/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xDDD6D36D41911851 Thanks for your feedback! It just occured to me that you can easily make IM window appear on the right side by using reflectHoriz from XMonad.Layout.Reflect module. I'll update the docs. -- Roman I. Cheplyaka :: http://ro-che.info/ ...being in love is totally punk rock...

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