Re: [xmonad] Cellwriter and XMonad [solved]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:38:24AM -0400, wagnerdm@seas.upenn.edu wrote:

Quoting Toby Cubitt :

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When I enter letters in Cellwriter and hit the "Enter" button, the input doesn't seem to go anywhere. As I could figure out, the output is supposed to go to the ACTVIVE (focused) window. When you use it with Xmonad, the Cellwriter's window is focused all the time! In e.g. XFCE the Cellwriter's window is never Yes, that sounds about right. At the back of my mind, I've always vaguely wondered how Cellwriter manages to accept input without grabbing the focus, but not knowing much about low-level X windows programming I never tried to figure it out.

What happens if, rather than doFloat, you doIgnore to prevent xmonad from managing that window?

Genius! With doIgnore, Cellwriter never gets the focus, but still accepts input, and the result goes to the active window as desired. There's a very slight niggle, in that it becomes impossible to quit Cellwriter using standard key bindings. But presumably that's what the command-line option "cellwriter --hide-window" is for, and I can easily use that to get things working the way I like. Thanks very much! Toby -- Dr T. S. Cubitt Quantum Information Theory group Department of Mathematics University of Bristol United Kingdom email: tsc25@cantab.net web: www.dr-qubit.org