On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 12:36:54PM -0400, Donald Allen wrote:
I'm new to xmonad, but not to tiling window managers, having used dwm for a time (I got tired of the sometimes unruly-junior-high-school-boy character of discussion on their mailing list, though this does not apply to Anselm himself, who is unfailingly polite). So I'm giving xmonad a try, and so far, so good.
I do have one issue, however. I have a pair of systems that share (via a dvm) a Lenovo display with a 16/9 aspect ratio. On that display, popup dialogs, such as the file-chooser that appears during file-download operations in Firefox, are positioned too low on the screen, resulting the in the bottom of the dialog being cut off (this is not an issue on my older Thinkpad G41 with a 1400x1050 display). Is there a way to specify the origin of popup windows via the configuration system?
I should mention that I'm running OpenBSD 4.5 Release on all these systems and xmonad 0.7, which is the version Release 4.5 provides as a package. So I'm aware that there is a newer version of xmonad. (I've had no success trying to build the newer version with the ghc compiler and libraries Release 4.5 provides.) So, it's possible this issue has been addressed in the newer version.
Thanks in advance for any help -- /Don Allen
There have been a couple small changes to floating windows since 0.7, I'm not sure whether they apply to this situation. If you're just looking for a workaround, see XMonad.Hooks.ManageHelpers.doCenterFloat. Again, I'm not sure whether this is in 0.7, but I'm sure it could be added directly to your xmonad.hs with a bit of effort. Cheers, Spencer Janssen PS - Regarding your followup about the other floating windows thread, I believe they're separate issues and it was good for you to start another thread.