Re: [xmonad] Re: Emergency terminal

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:11:44AM +0800, brian wrote:

On Feb 20, 2008 5:06 PM, Spencer Janssen wrote:

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On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 03:45:32PM +0800, brian wrote:

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But I wish it worked more like the Ion scratchpad. In that one, the floating rectangle was permanent, and the hotkey just switched to it. I'm trying to use the scratchpad to do 'vim ~/TODO' and it's a little troublesome because the hotkey starts another one rather than just causing the existing one appear.

Hmm, perhaps combine this with the new "run or raise" contrib?

OK, I did all the usual stuff except runOrRaise (XMonad.terminal conf ++ " -title todo -e vim -X ~/TODO") (title =? "todo"))

That's pretty cool, but it switches focus to the scratchpad as opposed to bringing it to me. Still, progress.

So I think the best thing to do is to add some flexibility to WindowGo. We can split out the window location code into a separate function: locateWindow :: Query Bool -> X (Maybe Window) Then we can combine this location function with other user routines. Cheers, Spencer Janssen