Quoting Laurent Humblet
1) I would like to use my keypad to switch to a given layout but I don't know how to do it. For instance:
MOD + SHIFT + Keypad 1 => switch to 'tiled' MOD + SHIFT + Keypad 2 => switch to 'Full' etc ...
http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Layout-LayoutCombinators...
2) When I ALT-TAB once and release ALT and TAB, I like to go back to the previous window in the stack instead of going forward again, is this possible ?
don't understand the request
3) Is there any bypass or automatic script that could do the "# cat /proc/####/fd/4" thing automatically when xmonad freezes?
Wouldn't it be better to just avoid having xmonad freeze, instead? It looks like you're sending output to xmobar; does xmobar have a PipeReader working? Could you paste your .xmobarrc somewhere for us to take a look at?
4) Is there some kind of online config generator ? Some kind of html/javascript page that would generate an xmonad.hs file automatically from a set of checkboxes (azerty keyboard, add new layouts, etc). The idea here is to ease the quick config setup for a non developer or for someone less willing to learn and hack in Haskell for instance.
http://braincrater.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/announcing-xmonad-light/
5) My desktops/workspaces 6 and 8 do not work. When I MOD + 6 or MOD + 8, it doesn't switch to it at all and MOD + SHIFT + 6 or 8 doesn't move the window to that workspace. Maybe this is tied to the fact that I have an belgian azerty keyboard but I do use the azerty config.
The azertyKeys function appears to use raw hex-codes to specify the workspace bindings, which, I must say, doesn't sound terribly portable. I think a patch that replaced the hex-codes with their equivalent xK_* named constants would be welcomed, and probably also would reveal why they're not working for you. In any case, it will help immensely to open up xev, whack your 6 and 8 keys, and take a look at the output there. Good luck, ~d