On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:55:40 -0700
Devin Mullins
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 06:22:02PM -0700, David Roundy wrote:
A hokier but simpler approach (if you plan on always leaving a firefox window open on workspace 2) would be to simply check if there are any windows in workspace 2.
So, in addition to this approach, I can think of two others:
1. startupHook is run just after windows have been mapped (see the definition of xmonad in XMonad/Main.hsc), so you can check for any existing Firefox windows there and only there. At that point, you could either iterate over all windows and runQuery a special ManageHook that's not part of your usual manageHook, or use XMonad.Util.WindowProperties. (I'm not sure which is better.)
I will investigate this. With a bit of research I think this is doable (as in "doable by me").
2. The cooler (but much harder) option would be something like XMonad.Hooks.ServerMode. You'd establish an EventHook that listened for a "shift-to-workspace" ClientMessageEvent. Then, you'd write a custom X11 client that looked up the Firefox window and sent the appropriate ClientMessage to the root window.
Ideally, this could be generalized to something I've wanted to see: a `float` command that ran $*, tracked all of the windows it spawned, and asked xmonad to float them. (I'm not sure if that's possible, though. And, yes, I know you didn't want to float. I'm digressing.)
Although I understand it at conceptual level, I have zero haskell background,
so, I will leave advanced drugs for a later stage :P For now, I have enough
pain just trying to configure xmonad to do that I want it to do.
Thanks for all the feedback, it's been really helpful. :)
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Jesús Guerrero