
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 06:58:02PM -0700, Michael Vanier wrote:
I've been playing around with xmonad 0.2, and so far it's been pretty pleasant. I have a few questions. I'm running xmonad in wide mode exclusively, since my laptop screen is fairly small.
First, when I run emacs, it initially comes up in non-fullscreen mode (basically, it uses the default dimensions I set in my .Xresources file, which don't quite fill the screen). When I cycle through other windows and come back to emacs the WM resizes it correctly. I'm wondering why it doesn't do so right away. Is this a bug?
Yes, it's a bug, fixed in darcs:
Sun Jun 3 13:31:53 PDT 2007 Stefan O'Rear
Second, I was wondering if there is a way to display the current workspace number and/or window title in a dzen status bar.
It's been done. I think it involves: (in Config.hs) logHook = do whatever and print status to stdout (in .xinitrc) tail -f xmonadout | dzen2 -options & xmonad > xmonadout
Third, is it possible to swap workspaces i.e. change workspace 2 to 1 and vice-versa?
Not in the standard code, but implementing such a command is pretty simple. (in Config.hs, untested code!) swap :: WorkspaceId -> WorkspaceId -> X () swap i1 i2 = windows $ \ss -> ss{ current = fudge' (current ss) , visible = map fudge' (visible ss) , hidden = map fudge (hidden ss) } where fudge' ws = ws{ workspace = fudge (workspace ws) } fudge ws | tag ws == i1 = ws{ tag = i2 } | tag ws == i2 = ws{ tag = i1 } | otherwise = ws Stefan