-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/1/11 20:28 , Michael Norrish wrote:
My situation is that I'm using Thunderbird and its External Editor plug-in to write mail. When I invoke the external editor, it brings up an emacs window (calling through emacsclient). I have a manage hook that puts emacs windows into a particular workspace, but I don't want e-mail composition emacs windows to go there.
I thought I could handle this by looking at an emacs window's WM_NAME in my ManageHook, but unfortunately, it seems at this point that the title is still just "emacs@<myhost>", which is not helpful. It seems that the useful title (which is of the form "<something-or-other>.eml") gets created a little later.
So, I thought I would put in a general eventhandler to watch for a property change, and to then do the shift to the appropriate workspace. So, I added
handleEventHook = mappend myhandlePropEvent (handleEventHook defaultConfig)
to my modifications of the default config.
I then have
myhandlePropEvent ev = case ev of PropertyEvent {} -> let w = ev_window ev ...
Through calls to trace, I can see that I am indeed picking up on the desired event (the change in the window's name), and I have a window (w above) to hand, but I don't know how to do things to it. My cursory examination of the relevant APIs suggested I could do
action <- runQuery (doShift "mail") w
giving me a handle on an Endo Windowset, but I don't know how to lift that into the X monad (where I have to eventually return $ All True). Can I use the withWindowSet function somehow?
I saw you asking about this in #xmonad and left a response message, but I guess you never checked back in. You want to do something like windows (W.shift "mail" w) which reruns the layout with the specified modification. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery.b@gmail.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] kf8nh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2+BuQACgkQIn7hlCsL25XEpQCgzyCSC1iOCaPxUEoQCM+JXde/ q9wAmwYgbnk02RlF/pGXarM9D1peg6ty =eVRl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----