Re: [xmonad] doFullFloat keybinding?

On 15 July 2012 18:03, Audun Skaugen wrote:

På Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:13:38 +0200, skrev Pablo Olmos de Aguilera C. :

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On 14 July 2012 14:21, Audun Skaugen wrote:

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På Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:23:23 +0200, skrev 1126 :

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Hello List!

I have a WS devoted to reading PDFs and alike and in my manageHook config stands the following:

, className =? "Evince" --> doFullFloat

This is, because I like my two xmobars (top and bottom) to disappear, when reading a paper such things. But: When evince is FullFloating I got problems when opening more than one instance of it, like a second paper. It just lets the first one disappear under the freshly opened one.

What I would like to have is a keybinding to switch FullFloating on and off. Is this possible and if so, how? (By the way: another solution - maybe even a better one - would be to tell xmonad that if I hit F11 (go fullscreen) in evince, that this windows should be above the xmobars and should take the whole screen. Like VLC does.)

I couldn't find anything about it, I'm sorry for the noise if I just sucked at Google-ing ;)

Why not skip floating the window, and use evince's existing fullscreen mechanism, which is already bound to F11?

Sadly, this won't work out of the box. But using the XMonad.Layout.Fullscreen module you can get it to work. Instructions are provided in the module documentation:

http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Layout-Fullscreen.html

The fullscreenFocus modifier is my choice. Note that if you put the fullscreen layout modifier before avoidStruts, the fullscreen window will cover xmobar, and if you put it after it won't.

Mail me if you need more help.

Even better... if you are using extended window manager hints (X.H.EwmhDesktops), which is likely. It already manage an event hook that can do that job for you. I just added fullscreenEventHook to eventHook like this:

... import XMonad.Hooks.EwmhDesktops ...

myEventHook = do ewmhDesktopsEventHook fullscreenEventHook

... , eventHook = myEventHook ...

or,

... myEventHook = ewmhDesktopsEventHook <+> fullscreenEventHook ...

(both work, I dunno if some of them is better)

Regards!

This will make the fullscreened windows floating, which leads to the same problem as the OP had, with multiple fullscreen windows overlapping and no easy way to switch between them.

With the XMonad.Layout.Fullscreen solution, the windows are kept in the tiling layer, making them easy to switch between while still taking up the entire screen.

If the window it is in fullscreen, why it matters if its floating or tiled? If you follow my solution, everytime you press f11 evince goes fullscreen and go back they way it were before (tiled prolly). Maybe I'm not understanding what's the original problem :P Regards, -- Pablo Olmos de Aguilera Corradini - @PaBLoX http://www.glatelier.org/ http://about.me/pablox/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/pablooda/ Linux User: #456971 - http://counter.li.org/