On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 04:48:54PM -0700, Michael Vanier wrote:
I just installed the Tabbed extension, and it's great (thanks, David!). Now I can probably ditch ion for good. However, the tabs revealed to me something I hadn't noticed before: that a new window gets placed to the left of the currently selected window. Is there any way to make the new window come up to the right of the currently selected window, which I find more intuitive?
The trouble is that there are a few counterintuitive choices in xmonad's window ordering, and we'd actually have to make more than one change in order to get things right (i.e. one change outside of Tabbed). (Where "right" is defined by what makes intuitive sense to me with tabbed.) The mod-tab rotation order also ought to go to the right (which it does). If we switched the mod-tab rotation order, then we could simply reverse the display relationship of windows, and everything would be intuitive. If we kept the display the same (relative to xmonad's internal Stack structure), then we could modify xmonad to put new windows on the right instead of the left, but then we'd also need to modify filter so that when a window is closed the focus moves to teh left instead of to the right. Without a change to the normal keybindings, I don't see a way to get things cycling like I'd like. In defense of the normal xmonad rotation order, by default mod-tab brings you to a parent window from a just-popped-up window, which I think is quite reasonable. Mostly I'm ambivalent on the subject, but obviously verbosely so... And you're welcome! :) -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University