Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 523 by kag...@genshiken.org: Too small remembered pids hooks in XMonad.Actions.SpawnOn http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=523 I use spawnOn in the startup hook because I want to run all needed programs at the their workspaces on window manager start. (I don't want to use manageHook because I may start using them on another workspaces.) The hook looks like this: startupHook' :: X () startupHook' = do args <- io getArgs -- Check for the first start unless ("--resume" `elem` args) $ do spawnOn "1" "firefox-bin" spawnOn "1" "deadbeef" spawnOn "2" "gajim" spawnOn "2" "thunderbird-bin" It works great but as soon as I need more programs for startup it doesn't shift all of them to the right place because spawnOn remember only 5: XMonad/Actions/SpawnOn.hs maxPids :: Int maxPids = 5 I tried to increase it to 20 and it keep working as supposed. So could you please apply it to upstream as well? However "20" fails in this issue too: it could be too small for some people, so maybe it should be "100" or even we should simply strip out any restrictions on max number of remembered pid/hook pairs. The only drawback that I can see in the last case: if window with remembered pid property will not appear, we will keep info about it in the state forever. But I don't think that it is a big problem. Labels: Component-Contrib