On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:50 PM, David Unric
Hi,
even with manageHook set to manageHook of defaultConfig, all new floating windows created on workspace with simplestFloat or simpleFloat layouts recieve focus but are placed _bellow_ current windows which I find very frustrating.
For example on empty simplestFloat workspace I launch xterm, then launch gvim. Gvim gets focus but appears behind xterm (bellow in window stack sense).
Maybe I'm not smart enough but I can't find how to change this behaviour of floating layout. I'd simply need all new floating windows are placed on top of the stack.
Any idea ?
Thanks in an advance.
David
David, I can't reproduce what you're seeing with simplestFloat on 0.10: following your example I see the gvim open above the xterm. Maybe there's something else in your config causing this (or something in my config; I didn't with the default config) There are situations when you start a slow program before a fast program that the slow program will be above the fast program. For example, in a shell if I run "gvim & xterm", I get gvim above xterm. It doesn't seem likely that what you're seeing can be because of that kind of thing. Your suggestion to shift all new floating windows to the top of the stack could help situations where you have 3 floating windows, and changed focus with the keyboard (so that the focused window was not raised to the top of the stack). This contrib module should make the managehook for that marginally easier http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Hooks-InsertPosition.htm... Adam