On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:07:41PM -0700, Dale Jordan wrote:
Firstly, thanks for the tips on getting XM working on FreeBSD. I got it working after upgrading to FreeBSD 6.2 (required to build GHC 6.6) and getting Cabal from darcs. Finally a window manager a non-X-guru can (mostly) understand.
I have been looking at having XM configure my workspaces, rather than doing it manually after prelaunching apps in .xinitrc or launching them from the keyboard. However, I don't have a clue how to correlate the app's windowID, when they decide to map themselves, with any data structures I might build in Config.hs. Does anyone have any clues about what info is available through X that might help?
Currently, Xmonad doesn't even look at a lot of the X values (window title, for instance), so a lot of the things you want are not yet bound. If you are comfortable with X11 programming, add a wrapper for XGetWindowProperty; then query the WM_CLASS property (use the xprop program to find the values programs use). Stefan