Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente
When dealing with focused windows like dialogs quite often a popup window appears *behind* the main window, stealing the focus. To get access to that window one has to move the main window to get to it. This is quite annoying and it could be easily solved if the focused window where kept on top of the floating windows stack. Is there any way to set this behaviour?
It's a bit complicated, but here's what I have: floating = (ask >>= liftX . willFloat) -- panel applets make everything shift around when -- shifted to master. <&&> (liftM (not . isSuffixOf "-panel")) resource <&&> (liftM (not . isSuffixOf "-applet")) resource -- This is logic copied from XMonad.Operations.manage, since -- manageHook is called before windows are floated -- | Determine if @w@ will be floated when it becomes managed. willFloat w = withDisplay $ \d -> do sh <- io $ getWMNormalHints d w let isFixedSize = sh_min_size sh /= Nothing && sh_min_size sh == sh_max_size sh isTransient <- isJust <$> io (getTransientForHint d w) f <- isFloat w return (isFixedSize || isTransient || f) and then I have "floating --> doF W.shiftMaster" in my managehook. There might be a simpler way, but this has worked since xmonad 0.5 or 0.6, so why change now?