Re: [xmonad] Re: Emergency terminal

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 1:11 PM, brian wrote:

On Feb 20, 2008 5:06 PM, Spencer Janssen wrote:

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On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 03:45:32PM +0800, brian wrote:

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But I wish it worked more like the Ion scratchpad. In that one, the floating rectangle was permanent, and the hotkey just switched to it. I'm trying to use the scratchpad to do 'vim ~/TODO' and it's a little troublesome because the hotkey starts another one rather than just causing the existing one appear.

Hmm, perhaps combine this with the new "run or raise" contrib?

OK, I did all the usual stuff except runOrRaise (XMonad.terminal conf ++ " -title todo -e vim -X ~/TODO") (title =? "todo"))

That's pretty cool, but it switches focus to the scratchpad as opposed to bringing it to me. Still, progress.

It should be possible to bring the window to you. Check out XMonad.Actions.WindowBringer -- it doesn't do what you want, but perhaps it will give you some ideas. Even better, it should probably be refactored to provide some more fundamental operations (there are actions to create a menu from which you can choose a window name to be brought to you -- but no simple function which, given a window name, will bring it to you). -Brent