On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 04:44:04AM -0800, codesite-noreply@google.com wrote:
Issue 125: Tabbed layout not working anymore http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=125
Comment #16 by andrea.rossato:
The only thing that remains, from a user point of view, is the ability to click on the tabs (decorations) to switch to the window.
this requires a change in the way we handle messages. Basically, a layout modifier is not allowed to call "focus w" (the function to place a window in focus), because that modifies the stack the layout modifier is operating with. As I wrote here: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2008-January/004398.html I do not really grasp the hows and whys, but I'm sure it's true.
Layouts can call 'focus w' in their message handlers -- in fact this is how the old tabbed layout worked.
I think this issue is the same of issue #111. (but I remember there should be a similar issue, but I cannot find it presently).
Issue #111 only comes into play when a message handler changes the set of visible workspaces. The old tabbed hit this issue when the user clicks a tab on an inactive workspace. Cheers, Spencer Janssen