On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:44:28 -0400
Braden Shepherdson
Jesús Guerrero wrote:
And, a bit off-topic, but related still: is there a way to tell xmonad the desired size and position for a floated window?
Using a ManageHook, indeed yes. This will work only when the window is spawned, of course, since that's the only time ManageHooks are called.
XMonad.Hooks.ManageHelpers contains a function called doRectFloat. It works like the core doFloat ManageHook, but you specify an XMonad.StackSet.RationalRect to give its position and size as a fraction of the screen size.
For an example, see XMonad.Util.Scratchpad, the module for which I wrote doRectFloat.
That's exactly what I needed, wonderful. After a couple of minutes I got it.
For example:
myManageHook = composeAll
[ [...snip...]
, resource =? "alsamixer" --> doRectFloat alsamixerRect
[...snip...]
where
alsamixerRect = W.RationalRect 0.8 0.0 0.2 0.3
Perfect for my needs. I have some more questions but I will look around a bit
more before spamming the lists. Thanks for all the assistance.
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Jesús Guerrero