On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Norbert Zeh
Hi folks,
before I go and code this up myself, let me make sure it doesn't exist yet. I want two features of managehooks:
- Display a certain type of window (say emacs) on a certain screen (screen, not workspace)
- Toggle manage hooks (e.g., using a key binding). As an example, I normally want no special handling of emacs windows, but for certain tasks I want every emacs window to pop up on my left screen. Since I do not want to reconfigure and restart xmonad every time the context changes, I need to be able to activate/deactivate certain manage hooks.
Ah, I actually just found X.H.DynamicHooks, which seems to go at least part of the way for the second bullet above. The first question remains.
If the above functionality does not exist yet, I'd provide the first as a patch for X.H.ManageHelpers and the second either as a patch for X.H.DynamicHooks or as a separate module, depending on how incremental the change turns out to be. Does this sound reasonable?
Hi Norbert, I'm not aware of anything in contrib addressing your first point. But adding it should be fairly straightforward, considering you can define: doShiftScreen :: ScreenId -> ManageHook doShiftScreen screenId = flip whenJust doShift =<< liftX (screenWorkspace screenId) -- fairly sure this typechecks And then use it exactly as you would use doShift. This kind of thing might fit better in XMonad.Hooks.ManageHelpers than in DynamicHooks. -- Adam