[xmonad] Get VLC to do fullscreen float in Xmonad

10 Aug 2012

      Hi,

This is my first post to the list.

Short background: I have started to use XBMC for watching and organizing
videos. Everything works great except playing the videos. I have a constant
stutter about every 3-4 seconds and from time to time the picture freeze
but the movie running in the background with sound OK, moving the mouse
take away the freeze (I think XMONAD might be involved in the freeze but
that is another story).

I do not have thous problems with VLC therefor I have configured XBMC to
use VLC to play videos.

I have two monitors, one for movies and one as desktop, using a Nvidia-card
in TwinView (propitiatory driver).

My problem is that when I start a movie VLC starts and XMONAD tiling it as
it should. But of cause I do not want VLC and XBMC side by side on the
monitor. I would like VLC fullscreen on top of XBMC.

I have tried to solve it by using  "XMonad.Hooks.ManageHelpers" and
"doFullFloat" but no luck.

My xmonad.hs looks like this.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

--

-- xmonad example config file.

--

-- A template showing all available configuration hooks,

-- and how to override the defaults in your own xmonad.hs conf file.

--

-- Normally, you'd only override those defaults you care about.

--

import XMonad

import Data.Monoid

import System.Exit

import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks

import XMonad.Util.Run(spawnPipe)

import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog

import System.IO

import XMonad.Hooks.ManageHelpers

import qualified XMonad.StackSet as W

import qualified Data.Map        as M

main = do

    xmproc <- spawnPipe "/usr/bin/xmobar /home/christer/.xmonad/xmobarrc"

    xmonad defaults

--        { manageHook = manageDocks <+> manageHook defaultConfig

          { manageHook = myManageHook

        , layoutHook = avoidStruts  $  layoutHook defaultConfig

        , logHook = dynamicLogWithPP xmobarPP

                        { ppOutput = hPutStrLn xmproc

                        , ppTitle = xmobarColor "green" "" . shorten 100

                        }

        }

myManageHook = composeOne

    [ className =? "vlc"        -?> doFullFloat

    , className =? "skype"           -?> doFloat

    , resource  =? "desktop_window" -?> doIgnore

    , resource  =? "kdesktop"       -?> doIgnore ]

-- The preferred terminal program, which is used in a binding below and by

-- certain contrib modules.

--

-- myTerminal      = "xterm"

myTerminal      = "urxvt"

-- Whether focus follows the mouse pointer.

myFocusFollowsMouse :: Bool

myFocusFollowsMouse = True

-- Width of the window border in pixels.

--

myBorderWidth   = 3

-- modMask lets you specify which modkey you want to use. The default

-- is mod1Mask ("left alt").  You may also consider using mod3Mask

-- ("right alt"), which does not conflict with emacs keybindings. The

-- "windows key" is usually mod4Mask.

--

myModMask       = mod4Mask

-- The default number of workspaces (virtual screens) and their names.

-- By default we use numeric strings, but any string may be used as a

-- workspace name. The number of workspaces is determined by the length

-- of this list.

--

-- A tagging example:

--

-- > workspaces = ["web", "irc", "code" ] ++ map show [4..9]

--

myWorkspaces    = ["1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9"]

-- Border colors for unfocused and focused windows, respectively.

--

-- myNormalBorderColor  = "#dddddd"

myNormalBorderColor  = "#000000"

myFocusedBorderColor = "#ff0000"

------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- Key bindings. Add, modify or remove key bindings here.

--

myKeys conf@(XConfig {XMonad.modMask = modm}) = M.fromList $

    -- launch a terminal

    [ ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_Return), spawn $ XMonad.terminal conf)

    -- launch dmenu

    , ((modm,               xK_p     ), spawn "dmenu_run -b")

    -- launch gmrun

    , ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_p     ), spawn "gmrun")

    -- close focused window

    , ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_c     ), kill)

     -- Rotate through the available layout algorithms

    , ((modm,               xK_space ), sendMessage NextLayout)

    --  Reset the layouts on the current workspace to default

    , ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_space ), setLayout $ XMonad.layoutHook conf)

    -- Resize viewed windows to the correct size

    , ((modm,               xK_n     ), refresh)

    -- Move focus to the next window

    , ((modm,               xK_Tab   ), windows W.focusDown)

    -- Move focus to the next window

    , ((modm,               xK_j     ), windows W.focusDown)

    -- Move focus to the previous window

    , ((modm,               xK_k     ), windows W.focusUp  )

    -- Move focus to the master window

    , ((modm,               xK_m     ), windows W.focusMaster  )

    -- Swap the focused window and the master window

    , ((modm,               xK_Return), windows W.swapMaster)

    -- Swap the focused window with the next window

    , ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_j     ), windows W.swapDown  )

    -- Swap the focused window with the previous window

    , ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_k     ), windows W.swapUp    )

    -- Shrink the master area

    , ((modm,               xK_h     ), sendMessage Shrink)

    -- Expand the master area

    , ((modm,               xK_l     ), sendMessage Expand)

    -- Push window back into tiling

    , ((modm,               xK_t     ), withFocused $ windows . W.sink)

    -- Increment the number of windows in the master area

    , ((modm              , xK_comma ), sendMessage (IncMasterN 1))

    -- Deincrement the number of windows in the master area

    , ((modm              , xK_period), sendMessage (IncMasterN (-1)))

    -- Toggle the status bar gap

    -- Use this binding with avoidStruts from Hooks.ManageDocks.

    -- See also the statusBar function from Hooks.DynamicLog.

    --

    -- , ((modm              , xK_b     ), sendMessage ToggleStruts)

    -- Quit xmonad

    , ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_q     ), io (exitWith ExitSuccess))

    -- Restart xmonad

    , ((modm              , xK_q     ), spawn "xmonad --recompile; xmonad
--restart")

    ]

    --

    -- mod-[1..9], Switch to workspace N

    -- mod-shift-[1..9], Move client to workspace N

    --

    [((m .|. modm, k), windows $ f i)

        | (i, k) <- zip (XMonad.workspaces conf) [xK_1 .. xK_9]

        , (f, m) <- [(W.greedyView, 0), (W.shift, shiftMask)]]

    ++

    --

    -- mod-{w,e,r}, Switch to physical/Xinerama screens 1, 2, or 3

    -- mod-shift-{w,e,r}, Move client to screen 1, 2, or 3

    --

    [((m .|. modm, key), screenWorkspace sc >>= flip whenJust (windows . f))

        | (key, sc) <- zip [xK_w, xK_e, xK_r] [0..]

        , (f, m) <- [(W.view, 0), (W.shift, shiftMask)]]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- Mouse bindings: default actions bound to mouse events

--

myMouseBindings (XConfig {XMonad.modMask = modm}) = M.fromList $

    -- mod-button1, Set the window to floating mode and move by dragging

    [ ((modm, button1), (\w -> focus w >> mouseMoveWindow w

                                       >> windows W.shiftMaster))

    -- mod-button2, Raise the window to the top of the stack

    , ((modm, button2), (\w -> focus w >> windows W.shiftMaster))

    -- mod-button3, Set the window to floating mode and resize by dragging

    , ((modm, button3), (\w -> focus w >> mouseResizeWindow w

                                       >> windows W.shiftMaster))

    -- you may also bind events to the mouse scroll wheel (button4 and
button5)

    ]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- Layouts:

-- You can specify and transform your layouts by modifying these values.

-- If you change layout bindings be sure to use 'mod-shift-space' after

-- restarting (with 'mod-q') to reset your layout state to the new

-- defaults, as xmonad preserves your old layout settings by default.

--

-- The available layouts.  Note that each layout is separated by |||,

-- which denotes layout choice.

--

myLayout = tiled ||| Mirror tiled ||| Full

  where

     -- default tiling algorithm partitions the screen into two panes

     tiled   = Tall nmaster delta ratio

     -- The default number of windows in the master pane

     nmaster = 1

     -- Default proportion of screen occupied by master pane

     ratio   = 1/4

     -- Percent of screen to increment by when resizing panes

     delta   = 3/100

------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- Window rules:

-- Execute arbitrary actions and WindowSet manipulations when managing

-- a new window. You can use this to, for example, always float a

-- particular program, or have a client always appear on a particular

-- workspace.

--

-- To find the property name associated with a program, use

-- > xprop | grep WM_CLASS

-- and click on the client you're interested in.

--

-- To match on the WM_NAME, you can use 'title' in the same way that

-- 'className' and 'resource' are used below.

--

------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- Event handling

-- * EwmhDesktops users should change this to ewmhDesktopsEventHook

--

-- Defines a custom handler function for X Events. The function should

-- return (All True) if the default handler is to be run afterwards. To

-- combine event hooks use mappend or mconcat from Data.Monoid.

--

myEventHook = mempty

------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- Status bars and logging

-- Perform an arbitrary action on each internal state change or X event.

-- See the 'XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog' extension for examples.

--

myLogHook = return ()

------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- Startup hook

-- Perform an arbitrary action each time xmonad starts or is restarted

-- with mod-q.  Used by, e.g., XMonad.Layout.PerWorkspace to initialize

-- per-workspace layout choices.

--

-- By default, do nothing.

myStartupHook = return ()

------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- Now run xmonad with all the defaults we set up.

-- Run xmonad with the settings you specify. No need to modify this.

--

-- main = xmonad defaults

-- A structure containing your configuration settings, overriding

-- fields in the default config. Any you don't override, will

-- use the defaults defined in xmonad/XMonad/Config.hs

--

-- No need to modify this.

--

defaults = defaultConfig {

      -- simple stuff

        terminal           = myTerminal,

        focusFollowsMouse  = myFocusFollowsMouse,

        borderWidth        = myBorderWidth,

        modMask            = myModMask,

        workspaces         = myWorkspaces,

        normalBorderColor  = myNormalBorderColor,

        focusedBorderColor = myFocusedBorderColor,

      -- key bindings

        keys               = myKeys,

        mouseBindings      = myMouseBindings,

      -- hooks, layouts

        layoutHook         = myLayout,

        manageHook         = myManageHook,

        handleEventHook    = myEventHook,

        logHook            = myLogHook,

        startupHook        = myStartupHook

    }

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Any Idea what I missed?

Best regards,

Christer

[xmonad] Get VLC to do fullscreen float in Xmonad

Christer Eriksson