Am Samstag, den 19.12.2009, 10:59 -0500 schrieb Adam Vogt:
* On Saturday, December 19 2009, Ralph Hofmann wrote:
Hi
I am new to xmonad. I use version 0.9.
I am trying to get "minimize" and "boringAuto" working together, like described here: http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Layout-Minimize.html ... Everythings works fine, except the Full-mode. In Full-mode the functions focusUp and focusDown from XMonad.Layout.BoringWindows don't switch to the next or previous window. They do nothing.
I would like to be able to cycle in Full-mode through all windows but the minimized windows. Is there anything, I can do?
Ralph
In the case of Full, boringAuto is doing exactly as it is supposed to do. I'm not sure that adding a special case to it makes sense to address this situation; that would be more surprising behavior; lets say you minimize all windows except one, should boringAuto now let you focus between windows?
If all windows except one are minimized, "my" boringAuto would behave exactly like the built in: it would skip the minimized windows and show only the one not minimized. It's probably hard to define which behavour is expected and which is surprising, but I think a generel rule could be: the Full-mode should follow the same logic of focusing as the tiled mode; unless there is a strong reason against it. Is there any reason like that? So in my understanding not "my" boringAuto is the "special case", but the built in.
Then again, maybe such a thing should be made an option, since that change would be much cleaner and reliable than the following hack based on checking your layout description, and then decide to send whichever message you want based on that:
fu,fd :: X () fu = checkDescr focusUp (windows W.focusUp) "Minimize Full" -- description might be wrong... fd = checkDescr focusDown (windows W.focusDown) "Minimize Full"
checkDescr :: X () -> X () -> String -> X () checkDescr regular exception exceptionLayout = do descr <- gets $ description . W.layout . W.workspace . W.current . windowset if descr == exceptionLayout then exception else regular
Of course, this is a pretty fragile solution since changing layout modifiers can change the layout descriptions, which means you will end up with the regular boringAuto behavior.
Perhaps more reliable would be to compare on the last word of the layout description:
checkDescr2 :: X () -> X () -> String -> X () checkDescr2 regular exception exceptionLayout = do descr <- gets $ description . W.layout . W.workspace . W.current . windowset let (~=) = (==) `on` (listToMaybe . reverse . words) if descr ~= exceptionLayout then exception else regular
And then regardless of which auxiliary function you use (checkDescr2, or checkDescr), you can bind the fu and fd actions as you did the regular focusUp and focusDown actions.
If you have trouble for imports, you need at least these ones for checkDescr2:
import XMonad import qualified XMonad.StackSet as W import XMonad.Layout.BoringWindows import Data.Function (on) import Data.Maybe (listToMaybe)
-- Adam Vogt
Thank you for showing me alternatives. I will have to review some haskell tutorial before going on;-) Ralph