Updates: Status: Fixed Comment #3 on issue 70 by vogt.adam: Extension request: Command to open a temporary window manager, or replace XMonad with a different one http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=70 The newwm ratpoison command is exactly `restart'. tmpwm can also be done using restart, albeit without serialization of xmonad state. $HOME/bin/obtoxmd
#!/bin/sh
openbox xmonad
And I have a binding in my config:
,("M-S-b", restart "/home/aavogt/bin/obtoxmd" False)
One suggestion I have is that restart, or a variant of it should use System.Cmd.system instead of System.Cmd.rawSystem, so that one could skip writing the shell script.
,("M-S-b", restart "openbox; xmonad" False)
There should be a way to get xmonad state to restore over the swap, but in my short experimentation I didn't figure out a variation on obtoxmd that feeds xmonad the old serialized state successfully. $HOME/bin/obtoxmd -- serialization failure
#!/bin/sh
openbox xmonad $*
That script would be run with the action `restart "/home/aavogt/bin/obtoxmd" True', but it doesn't work. I'm sure somebody can figure out a variation that does work. A very related feature can be found in the XMonad.Util.Replace module in contrib. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings