On Sat, 2007/12/22 21:47:34 -0800, Don Stewart wrote:
* What things annoy you?
Transient window popups on multi-screen setups. They oftentimes pop up on the other screen; I would like for the transient to stay close to its parent window. This is especially annoying with splash screens, because I will launch (for example) OpenOffice on screen 1, the splash screen will appear on screen 0, and then OpenOffice will appear on screen 0 because that is the currently focused screen.
* What things do you like?
Automatic layouts. Haskell, even though I don’t know it. Non-bloat.
* What things are missing?
An easier, more dynamic way to switch and combine layouts at runtime. Putting every layout I might want in my xmonad.hs and then hitting Mod+Space many times makes me tend to stick to a single layout or a list of only a few layouts. Somebody mentioned recently the ability to zoom the contents of a window. When I first saw the spiral layout in action, I thought how cool it would be if the windows kept their virtual size, but the contents were scaled down. Recently- used windows would be larger and usable while old windows would be mere thumbnails, kind of like an automatic aging Exposé. Window decorations: just the titles, mostly, although I occationally wish there were a close buttons.
* What things do you miss from ion/wmii/dwm/compiz
Manual control of layouts. I usually use Tall, and sometimes I want a particular window in the right pane to be taller. Also, tabs inside any frame. As with Lee (aylwarlt), I’ve heard this is possible but haven’t tried it yet. I forget what it’s called, but the Mod+Space window popup feature in Ion3 would be nice. I think it is similar to the Konfabulator/ Mac OS widget thing that was already mentioned: hit a keystroke, and a window or windows pop up in front of the current workspace. Sometimes I don't want all my windows to rearrange just so I can use a calculator. For my purposes, an XShell prompt that runs an application in the floating layer might do. For example, press Mod+Shift+X to pop up a prompt that floats whatever it runs, or modify the existing XShell to float what it runs if you press Shift+Enter. Ion2 tiled all windows, including transients. It used to bother me, but when Ion3 started floating transients, I missed the tiled transient feature. xmonad has better control of window navigation with floats, though, so it’s easy to press Mod+T to tile a transient (I had to perform very strange keystroke incantations to navigate with floating transients in Ion3). However, can xmonad be easily configured to tile all transients?
* What things do you not miss from ion/wmii/dwm/compiz ... :)
Multi-keystroke commands (such as Mod+K N).
If you've any suggestions for things we can change to make xmonad better fit your workflow or whatever, please shout out!
Likewise, I’m interested in how my workflow can be changed to better fit xmonad. It’s quite different than Ion and it’s very configurable, so figuring out the best way to use it takes a lot of thought. More examples of what is possible and how xmonad is used would be helpful.