[xmonad] Re: Re: xmonad Digest, Vol 37, Issue 4

From: Alexandre Subject: Re: [xmonad] Re: xmonad Digest, Vol 37, Issue 4 To: xmonad@haskell.org Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:03:52PM +0200, Jan Vornberger wrote:

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By the way: Since you are apparently using decorations, what is your experience with them in general? Are you on a dual-head setup or just a single monitor? Because the decoration code really needs some work, I'm afraid. Sometimes I have problems with 'left-over' title bars that won't disappear and such things. I reckon there aren't many people on this list that are using decoration, are there?

Although the question was not addressed to me... :)

Not sure if the problem is with 'Layout.Decoration' or specifically with 'Layout.Tabbed' but :

In a 'tabbed' workspace, switching from a "normal" application to a "transparent" urxvt is slow (1-2 seconds). On the other hand, switching between 2 (undecorated) workspaces containing a transparent urxvt is almost instantanous.

I'm not using urxvt with transparency anymore, because i like tabbed more than transparency :p

Sorry, I didn't see the message because I answered the other one without changing the subject line :( My experience with decorations is mostly great. I only have one problem: when I click maximize (most of the times because of I miss the close button and click maximize instead) the decoration seems to appear behind the window, and only the "menu" button is shown, so I have to enter the menu to de-maximize it. Even more, when I maximize a window, it does not expand to the entire window. I use it title bars with dragging visualizers and window switchers and I haven't found any special issue with using both, so I'm very happy with it :) Some times I've seen some left-over title bars, mostly when switching a window to another workspace. But it does not happen frequently. For me, it only happens when I try to open Eclipse, and then think I should switch it to another workspace, so I move the initial window to the another workspace, but then the "loading" window disappears and only a title bar is left. Maybe some race condition between showing the title bar and closing the window. Finally, I may add that I've developed a little Gnome panel applet to show which windows are minimized. I think it's a better idea than showing all open windows (as in Gnome panel), or not showing none. Then I use the panel above to use a global menu, so windows have more space to show actual contents. I did a screenshot http://twitpic.com/1c1zu0 As Alexandre, I'm a very happy XMonad user, even I just did the change about 2 weeks ago :)