This is orthagonal to your original question, but as a suggestion for music players and xmonad, I use mpd and have key bindings that control it through mpc. I use one key for pause and another for volume control. Yeah, thanks for the tip, but I use this already. But sometimes you have to change the playlist or do other things where you cant use hotkeys.

Finally I have included pertinent parts of the mpc output in my xmobar. I already thought of this but I got a 12'' Screen (Lenovo X60s) and a 1024x768 Resolution and there is no space in the xmobar.

Thanks anyway -- Dominik Bruhn mailto: dominik@dbruhn.de

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:08:38PM +0200, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:

* Andrew Sackville-West [2008-02-28 06:49:00-0800]

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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 03:41:50PM +0100, Dominik Bruhn wrote:

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Hy, I recently found the Scratchpad on the Mailinglist (thanks, Braden for this). But, im missing two features: 1. Is it possible to hide the scratchpad (not close, only hide) with the same hotkey? So if I press the Hotkey once the scratchpad apears and another hit it disapears and I can recall it with the same hotkey. 2. Can the scratchpad made visible on all workspaces? So if I switch my workspace it stays visilbe and I can recall (with 1.) the same scratchpad everywhere?

The reason for this is: I want to start a musicplayer (mocp or something like this) in the scratchpad and want to view it on every workspace im on.

This is orthagonal to your original question, but as a suggestion for music players and xmonad, I use mpd and have key bindings that control it through mpc. I use one key for pause and another for volume control. Finally I have included pertinent parts of the mpc output in my xmobar. It's all pretty simple and make a very nice simple music setup.

Agree :)

Also I've written a small extension for prompting song name, but I was going to push it after xmonad get locale support.

However, if you need it and don't deal with non-Latin song names, I can push it earlier...

-- Roman I. Cheplyaka (aka Feuerbach @ IRC)

I made a little script long time ago to play a song by inputting part of its name: mpc play `mpc playlist | grep -i $1 | tr -d \# | head -n 1 | awk -F\) '{print $1}'` Might find it useful as well.. Adrien

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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:28:13PM -0500, Braden Shepherdson wrote:

The second part is more difficult. Both byorgey and I seem to recall a contrib module that did this appear-on-all-workspaces. One ugly solution is to unmanage it and have it exist as a form of status bar.

I haven't looked at the scratchpad code at all, but an obvious solution would seem (to me) to just be to use CopyWindow and put it in all the workspaces. But I can't help but wonder: wouldn't a scratch workspace be better than a scratch window? It ought to be pretty easy to make the workspace-navigation functions ignore a "scratch" workspace (and isn't strictly necessary, either), and then you could stick whatever you want in there. I can think of a number of possibilities to implement a scratch workspace, either as a special layout or a special screen (that sometimes disappears, or moves itself to inside another screen). In fact, a special screen seems like an extremely elegant (and easy!) approach. You just have a function to show/hide this screen. This also opens up the approach of making the scratchpad not overlap with other windows: the existing screen could optionally be shrunk to make room. -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University