On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:49:30 +1000
Dave Harrison
Hi all,
Having finally submitted that last assignment for the semester the time to bail on Ion and embrace xmonad has arrived for me ! :-)
First let me say, well done. It works very nicely and I'm very impressed (have been for a while even without using it).
So now I come to a question, I have a xinerama setup for my laptop that means I can plug into a monitor and have two screens. My usual usage involves me having to go hunting through workspaces to find where I left a particular client window open (a terminal, web browser window etc). What I'm finding at the moment is that as I move through the workspaces, at some point I select a workspace that's on the other screen to the one I'm working on, and by selecting that workspace I move to that other screen. Then as I continue looking through my workspaces, I pull them to that screen instead (I flick fast ;-) ).
So the question is, how do other people solve this problem (ie. how do you cycle workspaces to find something you want in xinerama without getting thrown around between screens) ?
You should try GreedyView in XMonadContrib. Let me know how you like it -- I've been considering making this the default behavior for some time now.
And, is there a better way to find something on another workspace ?
Hmm, not sure about this one. Maybe write a little script for XMonadContrib that pipes window names to dmenu and gives the selected window focus? Cheers, Spencer Janssen