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Hi,

How can I configure xmonad so that all windows are born tiled (like after mod-t)? I think I was able to figure out I should use manageHook, but I wasn't able to figure out how.

This should be the default behaviour.

I think this is the default behavior only for "big windows". Dialogs (just tested with 'about Firefox') are not tiled. I would like all windows to be tiled -- even those that should be better left as non-tiled. Maurício

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 12:08:19PM +0000, Dougal Stanton wrote:

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Mauricio wrote:

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I think this is the default behavior only for "big windows". Dialogs (just tested with 'about Firefox') are not tiled. I would like all windows to be tiled -- even those that should be better left as non-tiled.

Others might correct me, but that seems to be core functionality, in XMonad/Operations.hs:

manage :: Window -> X ()

It drops a new window into the current screen, floating it if it's fixed-size or hinted as transient.

You should still be able to tile everything with a manageHook, something like return True --> (ask >>= doF . W.sink) Note the final line in the 'manage' action, 'windows (g . f)', which runs the user's ManageHook (g) *after* the built-in handling (f). -Brent