Hi Jvin,
1) I'm finding that windows are popping up on my current workspace when they were generated by a window in a different workspace. These are very distracting. I'd like them to stay over there.
Well, I think so far the only answer to your first request is contained in the answer to your second request. Read on
2) Right now, if I launch a big application (say, amarok or openoffice) on a workspace and change workspaces the window will pop up on the second workspace I am at now. Instead, I'd like to launch the application on it's own workspace, then go to a different workspace to do some work then come back after it's launched.
You can use the ManageHook to achieve this. You can define your own ManageHook like this: myManageHook = composeAll [ className =? "MPlayer" --> doFloat , className =? "Firefox" --> doF (W.shift wsWeb) , className =? "Eclipse" --> doF (W.shift wsCode') , className =? "Opera" »··· --> doF (W.shift wsDoc) , className =? "Gimp" --> doFloat , className =? "Gimp" --> doF (W.shift "7") , resource =? "desktop_window" --> doIgnore , resource =? "kdesktop" --> doIgnore ] <+> manageDocks By just adding another className =? "Something" --> doF(W.shift aWorkSpace) where aWorkSpace is one of your work spaces (like 1 2 3 4 ...) you can force all windows with a particular window class name to pop up on that work space. This (typically) includes message dialogs, or new windows (can work for gaim^Wpidgin, too). You can find out the class name of a window like this: xprop | grep WM_CLASS and then click on the window. This is documented in the standard xmonad.hs file. Aleks