Don Stewart wrote:
magnus:
Is there a way of minimising windows in Xmonad?
I've found several times that I really miss minimising of windows. Right now e.g. I have a screen with VirtualBox (its control window and a window for a single VM) and I want to stick a browser next to the VM to follow some instructions on a web page. What I've ended up doing so far is moving the control window to a "scratch screen" so that the screen is divided evenly between the VM and the browser. However, once I'm done I'll move the browser back to the "web screen" and I'll have to move the control window back again from the "scratch screen".
I tend to move windows to a scratch workspace. I think encapsulating that model as a 'raise/minimise' key binding would make sense.
-- Don
See for example how XMonad.Util.Scratchpad handles banishing and summoning itself from a scratch workspace. An alternative to having to move it back, consider copying the windows to the other workspace. I have bindings for M-c N to copy the focused window to workspace N. Then you can use the alternative `kill1' function provided by the WindowCopy module to have mod+shift+c just delete the copy unless it's the last one. But that's easing the symptom rather than the problem, perhaps. Braden Shepherdson shepheb