On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Brandon Allbery
window or explicitly request input focus (e.g. gnome mini-commander applet), so users get confused when input focus goes to a dock especially in click-to-focus mode. I think one of the early minimalist docks did the wrong thing with input focus, too. In any case, it's somewhat unusual for a dock to want the input focus, and strange things can happen if you grant it. (Even in newer ones; I had some odd behavior from KDE4's Plasma while working on my freedesktop.org extensions due to unexpected input focus.)
Brandon, I regularly have attempted to create a single emacs mini-buffer docked at the bottom of my screen for all of my frames. (My goal is to approximate the experience of the Apollo Computer DM's command window.) I have never been entirely successful. Are you suggesting that mine is a vain quest? Or can you suggest how I might actually get it to work under Xmonad? /john /john