[xmonad] Re: Emergency terminal

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The attached message has been automatically discarded. Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:45:01 +0200 From: Salvatore Iovene To: xmonad@haskell.org Subject: Emergency terminal

Hi all, sometimes I need to open a terminal window just for a quick task (i.e. quickly view an image). Using Mod+p and opening a dmenu is not really good for that (lack of good completation support) and I don't want to open a new terminal that will change the existing layout (not good on the eye).

The ideal solution would be having a special key that'd fire up a floating terminal on the bottom of the screen, only, say, 5 lines high, so you could quickly give your command without interfering with the existing layout.

Is there anything like this already around? Thanks!

There's been much talk about a 'scratchpad' terminal. This doesn't exist, but would be easy to implement as an extension -- just open up a terminal with a property set on it, then write a manageHook rule that looks for that property, and positions the window as floating, and with particular geometry. This would be a great extension to have, if someone would like to write it. -- Don