2) The floating windows are always in front of tiled windows. This is annoying: i would like to be able to script something so that the floating layer is hidden if a tiled window is focused. Is there some command along the lines of "hide all floats"?
I have a solution to this as follows. Apologies for the newbie haskell... First some functions for hiding the floating windows when you're viewing a tiled one: doIfFloat :: (Window -> X()) -> M.Map Window W.RationalRect -> Window -> X () doIfFloat f floats w = if (M.member w floats) then f w else return () withWindows :: (Window -> X ()) -> X () withWindows f = do wins <- gets (W.allWindows . windowset) mapM f wins return () showHideFloats :: X () showHideFloats = do (mw, floats) <- gets (liftM2 (,) W.peek W.floating . windowset) maybe (return ()) (\w -> if (M.member w floats) then return () -- XMonad unhides automatically else withWindows (doIfFloat hide floats)) mw Then one for making sure the focused window is on top (as floats can hide other floats): raiseFocused :: X () raiseFocused = do XConf { display = disp } <- ask mw <- gets (W.peek . windowset) maybe (return ()) (io . (raiseWindow disp)) mw Finally, my log hook: logHook = raiseFocused <+> showHideFloats If you don't like all the tiled windows appearing when you focus just one of them, you can simply set logHook = raiseFocused If anyone likes this, perhaps i could make a contrib module? Criticisms &c. encouraged :) Matt