Well, I started Gimp again, and now it's all nice and tiled .... :-/ All I need now is for FileOpen/Save dialog boxes to float right. lol Wirt Wolff wrote:
Sorry for the long wait for a reply, Dayo.
Excerpts from Dayo Adewunmi's message of Wed Apr 22 09:49:07 -0600 2009:
Hi guys.
I love Xmonad. Installed it on my Ubuntu 8.10 laptop a couple of days ago for the first time, so I'm still a newbie. I managed to add Xmobar, by following the installation instructions from here: http://code.haskell.org/~arossato/xmobar/#installation and using the config example from here: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive/John_Goerzen's_Configuratio n#Configuring_xmonad_to_use_xmobar
My modifier is Alt, so I press Alt+p to start apps from the grey menu bar that appears at the top of the screen, and so far the only one that won't start is OpenOffice3.
I don't use dmenu, so ymmv, but hopefully the ff. would work for you too, in case you don't happen to be selecting the intended oo___ app from dmenu: in shell at least 'oowriter' starts document editor and 'ooffice' the generic oo gateway. (I use XMonad.Util.Scratchpad or a shell to start apps, so can just type 'oo<tab>' to see the available openoffice commands to choose from.)
Also, I have to start GIMP 2.6 in a dedicated workspace, because it just won't tile correctly with other open apps. Dialog prompts like "SaveAs" and "Open" of various apps don't float right either, leaving the "Save", "Open", "Cancel" buttons hanging out of sight below the visible line of the screen.
Hmm, with the xmonad.hs you attached I'd expect all Gimp things to float, and dialogs to be in the upper left corner. Maybe your Gimp has different X properties than the expected class name of "Gimp". This link [1] has a bunch of info about xprop, hooks, and Gimp,
#xmonad on irc.freenode.net is another place to get help with the dialog window locations.
Also pressing Alt+Enter is said to switch the active frame with the frame in the Master pane, but this stopped working after some editing of xmonad.hs (or .xmobarrc?). Unfortunately, I can't remember what changes I made that caused Alt+Enter to stop working.
The xmonad.hs you pasted should use the default keys, including Alt-Enter, so maybe try #xmonad for help troubleshooting what's going wrong. (.xmobarrc only affects xmobar, so long as it's working and displaying workspaces xmonad is writing to it -- nothing to do with Alt-Enter)
Welcome, hope you continue to like xmonad and customizing it to your needs.
[1] http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/General_xmonad.hs_config_tips#Gimp
Here are my specs and configs:
~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs: http://pastebin.com/f5e107f70 ~/.xmobarrc: http://pastebin.com/febe32b4
Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex Linux 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Wed Apr 1 20:57:48 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
Regards
Dayo