Re: [xmonad] Initial Layout

21 Jan 2011


      On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 01:10:47PM +0300, kevind256 wrote:
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How about assigning such function to manage hook, but the function
itself would check if all the required windows are present, and if it
hasn't acted before (so it would act only one time - after startup,
and after all manage hooks have run. During the last one, to be
precise).
Hmm, yes, this should be possible, but I think it would be a lot of
work coding it up.  I'd like to help but I'm not sure how to help in a
way that wouldn't take a lot more time than I have.

-Brent
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On 1/20/11, Brent Yorgey  wrote:
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 01:02:22PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote:
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I am starting xterm, iceweasel (aka firefox) and pidgin from .xsession:
iceweasel &
pidgin &
uxterm -e 'tmux new mutt' &
exec /usr/bin/x-window-manager
And using the following xmonad configuration:
myManageHook = composeAll [
        className =? "Gimp" --> doFloat,
        className =? "Iceweasel" --> doF (W.shift "1"),
        (className =? "Iceweasel" <&&> resource =? "Dialog") --> doFloat,
        className =? "Pidgin" <&&> title =? "Buddy List" --> doShift "2"
        ]
main = xmonad $ ewmh defaultConfig {
        borderWidth = 1,
        manageHook = myManageHook <+> manageHook defaultConfig,
        modMask = mod4Mask,
        terminal = "/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator -e tmux"
        }
This gives me the following behavior:
xterm on workspace 1 right
iceweasel on workspace 1 left
pidgin on workspace 2
active desktop is 2.  Two questions (a) Is there a way to swap xterm and
iceweasel for the initial session?  (b) And how do I tell xmoand that
workspace
1 should be active?  I am happy to dig more into the docs.
Honestly I am not sure there is a good way to do this.  One problem is
that the manage hooks are not guaranteed to run in any particular
order; another problem is there's no good way that I know of to run
some action *after* all the manage hooks have run.  You can define a
startupHook in your configuration to be run when xmonad starts, but
that runs *before* the manage hooks so it won't help you.  The only
way I can think to do it would be to make a keybinding which will
arrange the windows for you and take you to to workspace 1, which
should be possible with a little StackSet munging.
-Brent
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