On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:57:30 +0100
"Magnus Therning"
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".
Are others bumping into this use case? How are you dealing with it?
By using layouts. You can have a different layout into each virtual desktop
(or whatever they are called on xmonad). You can as well change the current
layout (by default with modMask+spacer.
When I need to see two programs on a given virtual desktop I mostly use the
Tall layout or a similar one, when I need to expose one fullscreen and hide
the other window, I just change to Full layout, and use modMask+tab to
alternate from one window to another.
Minimisation is a concept that doesn't fit very well on the whole paradigm
of a tiling window manager, in my humble opinion. I suppose that it could
be achievable by using layouts however, but I don't see how that would be
any different from using the Full vs. Tall layouts that I explained.
Cheers :)
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Jesús Guerrero