Re: [xmonad] darcs patch: Always float ediff windows

Spencer Janssen writes:

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:37:31PM -0500, Alec Berryman wrote:

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ediff is a popular and widely-used interactive diff/merge mode included with emacs. It works by opening up a small window that the user keeps in focus while using ediff commands like next patch; if the main emacs window is in focus, none of the ediff key commands are available. The small window generally obscures what the user is interested in and is kept as small and out of the way as possible; by default, it opens up very tiny in the top right of the screen.

The window is already in way just by existing, but having xmonad try to manage it really screws things up. It's in the same class as MPlayer and GIMP; there's no use case for managing it, so do the right thing by default and always float it.

I used title instead of className because the className is emacs, and floating all emacs buffers is definitely not the right thing to do.

Wed Jan 30 18:38:20 EST 2008 Alec Berryman * Always float ediff windows

I tend to agree with Andrea's analysis here -- I don't think we can get into adding these workarounds for every goofy application.

You might consider sending a bug report to the emacs people, setting WM_TRANSIENT_FOR on this window will improve this application's behavior in all window managers.

I use the following in my .emacs to prevent emacs from opening an extra frame: (setq ediff-window-setup-function 'ediff-setup-windows-plain) Stefan.