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March 2011

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Hiding windows, showing desktop
by Norbert Zeh 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Hi folks, I'm interested in temporarily hiding all the windows on one of my workspaces. Ideally, I'd also like to restore them to their original state either by pressing a key again or, even better, as soon as I'm doing something that affects the current layout (press focusUp key, for example). So here are my questions: (1) Is this functionality available in XMonadContrib and I just didn't know how to look? If so, pointers are appreciated. (2) If the answer to (1) is no, then I don't mind implementing it, but I'd appreciate pointers on how to go about it. Here's what I tried so far. Option 1: In order to support the behaviour that a change of the current layout should restore the windows, I wrote a layout modifier. It simply ran "hide" over the windows it gets in the stack passed to it and later restored them using "reveal". This worked nicely, but it didn't hide floating windows. The reason, I thought: floating windows are not passed to the layout. Option 2: To overcome the problem with Option 1, I changed the code so that the messages to the layout modifier include the *entire* window list of the current workspace, not only the non-floating ones, and then I handled that list. The result: nothing changed because, as it turns out, after the layout is done doing whatever it does, the "windows" function in the core XMonad applies "reveal" to all floating windows on the current workspace. Option 3: So I thought this calls for heavier guns. So one thing I tried was to temporarily replace the window stack of the current workspace with Nothing and later bring it back. My current code for this doesn't do the right thing and causes lots of trouble. While some debugging and tweaking and hacking may get that to work eventually, it just seems too hackish an approach. So, what do the xmonad gurus say about how one could implement this? With things like conky running on one's desktop, this seems to be a rather useful functionality to have. Cheers, Norbert

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Issue 438 in xmonad: XMonad randomly crashes when a web-browser is running
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 438 by atten...(a)gmail.com: XMonad randomly crashes when a web-browser is running http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=438 What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Log in to XMonad 2. Start Firefox, uzbl, jumanji, chromium or any other www-browser 3. Wait a few minutes/hours What is the expected output? What do you see instead? XMonad crashes and I see the Slim prompt again. What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? This bug occurs both with XMonad 0.9.2 and 0.10. OS: ArchLinux x86_64 Are you using an xmonad.hs? Please attach it and the output of "xmonad --recompile". XMonad compiles fine. Please provide any additional information below. Attachments: xmonad.hs 16.8 KB

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