Re: [Xmonad] darcs patch: first shot at a floating layer

dons:

jcreigh:

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Wed May 30 22:47:33 MDT 2007 Jason Creighton * first shot at a floating layer

This is a first attempting at a floating layer:

mod-button1: move window mod-button2: swapMaster mod-button3: resize window

mod-t: make floating window tiled again

Moving or resizing a window automatically makes it floating.

Known issues:

Hard to manage stacking order. You can promote a window to move it to the top, (which you can do with mod-button2) but it should be easier than that.

Moving a window by dragging it to a different Xinerama screen does not move it to that workspace.

Code is ugly.

We'll be playing with this, and thinking about it for a few days.

In fact, this is really nice! Great work Jason. This is very exciting: it makes some apps (gimp!) a lot more usable. The patch is in now the repo, for brave souls. Here's a screenshot of a couple of floating windows over a wide pane: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/tmp/float.png -- Don