On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 01:02:22PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote:
I am starting xterm, iceweasel (aka firefox) and pidgin from .xsession:
iceweasel & pidgin & uxterm -e 'tmux new mutt' & exec /usr/bin/x-window-manager
And using the following xmonad configuration:
myManageHook = composeAll [ className =? "Gimp" --> doFloat, className =? "Iceweasel" --> doF (W.shift "1"), (className =? "Iceweasel" <&&> resource =? "Dialog") --> doFloat, className =? "Pidgin" <&&> title =? "Buddy List" --> doShift "2" ]
main = xmonad $ ewmh defaultConfig { borderWidth = 1, manageHook = myManageHook <+> manageHook defaultConfig, modMask = mod4Mask, terminal = "/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator -e tmux" }
This gives me the following behavior:
xterm on workspace 1 right iceweasel on workspace 1 left pidgin on workspace 2
active desktop is 2. Two questions (a) Is there a way to swap xterm and iceweasel for the initial session? (b) And how do I tell xmoand that workspace 1 should be active? I am happy to dig more into the docs.
Honestly I am not sure there is a good way to do this. One problem is that the manage hooks are not guaranteed to run in any particular order; another problem is there's no good way that I know of to run some action *after* all the manage hooks have run. You can define a startupHook in your configuration to be run when xmonad starts, but that runs *before* the manage hooks so it won't help you. The only way I can think to do it would be to make a keybinding which will arrange the windows for you and take you to to workspace 1, which should be possible with a little StackSet munging. -Brent