* On Saturday, December 19 2009, Ralph Hofmann wrote:
Hi
I am new to xmonad. I use version 0.9.
I am trying to get "minimize" and "boringAuto" working together, like described here: http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Layout-Minimize.html ... Everythings works fine, except the Full-mode. In Full-mode the functions focusUp and focusDown from XMonad.Layout.BoringWindows don't switch to the next or previous window. They do nothing.
I would like to be able to cycle in Full-mode through all windows but the minimized windows. Is there anything, I can do?
Ralph
In the case of Full, boringAuto is doing exactly as it is supposed to do. I'm not sure that adding a special case to it makes sense to address this situation; that would be more surprising behavior; lets say you minimize all windows except one, should boringAuto now let you focus between windows? Then again, maybe such a thing should be made an option, since that change would be much cleaner and reliable than the following hack based on checking your layout description, and then decide to send whichever message you want based on that:
fu,fd :: X () fu = checkDescr focusUp (windows W.focusUp) "Minimize Full" -- description might be wrong... fd = checkDescr focusDown (windows W.focusDown) "Minimize Full"
checkDescr :: X () -> X () -> String -> X () checkDescr regular exception exceptionLayout = do descr <- gets $ description . W.layout . W.workspace . W.current . windowset if descr == exceptionLayout then exception else regular
Of course, this is a pretty fragile solution since changing layout modifiers can change the layout descriptions, which means you will end up with the regular boringAuto behavior. Perhaps more reliable would be to compare on the last word of the layout description:
checkDescr2 :: X () -> X () -> String -> X () checkDescr2 regular exception exceptionLayout = do descr <- gets $ description . W.layout . W.workspace . W.current . windowset let (~=) = (==) `on` (listToMaybe . reverse . words) if descr ~= exceptionLayout then exception else regular
And then regardless of which auxiliary function you use (checkDescr2, or checkDescr), you can bind the fu and fd actions as you did the regular focusUp and focusDown actions. If you have trouble for imports, you need at least these ones for checkDescr2:
import XMonad import qualified XMonad.StackSet as W import XMonad.Layout.BoringWindows import Data.Function (on) import Data.Maybe (listToMaybe)
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