Joseph Garvin
What would be the easiest way to setup having a specific virtual desktop act more like a traditional WM? Most of the time I want tiling, but occasionally a coworker will want to show me something in a multi-windowed app and be at a loss as to how to move things around, resize, etc. It'd be nice to just be able to switch over to a desktop that acts like a regular window manager and have them use that. Alternatively, if there's a way to setup a key combo to switch between tiled mode and normal-WM mode, that might even be better. I'm sure this is possible since bluetile does it, but I'm not sure how to put it together.
I have a patch[1] to add a module which allows you to toggle manageHooks. Search my xmonad.hs[2] for 'hookFloat' to see how I configure it. Allows me to tell XMonad to float the next window or all new windows and toggle it at runtime. As long as the other user knows about mod+click/drag to resize or move windows (and that's configured), most everything should be fine. Window stack order might get confusing. Hope this helps. --Ben [1]http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2010-June/010358.html [2]http://git.benboeckel.net/?p=dotfiles.git;a=blob;f=generic/home/xmonad/xmona...