Re: [xmonad] mplayer & borders

xj2106:

Roman Cheplyaka writes:

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* Xiao-Yong Jin [2008-02-01 17:25:13-0500]

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Roman Cheplyaka writes:

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It seems to be one of the most frequently asked questions on the IRC, so I've just added it to FAQ[1]. As I wrote there, I don't see any way to automate this task with manageHook. Keeping an extra bit for each window (whether to draw borders) looks like overkill for, I guess, single program which needs it. Does anyone have ideas how to automate NoBorders in a simple way?

1. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Frequently_asked_questions#I_don.27t_l...

I don't understand why xmonad cannot do the same thing as how dwm treats mplayer.

Would you tell us?

I don't see dwm treats mplayer separately. Just one rule to make it floating in config.def.h.

Have you tried it? It is not a separate treatment. The issue is that, in dwm, when the rule is applied, full screened mplayer, got by pressing `f', is _correctly_ positioned on the screen, borders _outside_ of the screen. On the contrary, what you can get from a floating full screened mplayer in xmonad is top and left borders on the edge of the screen and you need to move the mplayer window up and left 1 pixel manually to achieve what dwm does automatically.

I'm no expert on window manager. Hope the above description is informative enough.

Oh! How about we just have a manageHook that sets the desired geometry?