Hi, Am Sonntag, den 13.01.2013, 14:52 +0100 schrieb Thomas Løcke:

1. We need to be able to run a legacy Windows application. I plan on solving this with VirtualBox, and I would like for my employees to have this application available fullscreen at workspace 1, but when I fullscreen the virtual XP on this workspace, the bottom part of Windows "fall out" below the monitor. This is because I have xmobar running. If I disable xmobar the problem goes away. But I only want to disable xmobar for this one workspace. Is there a way to disable struts on a single workspace, preferably in xmonad.hs?

I assume you are using XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks and avoidStruts to make things avoid xmobar? In that case, try "sendMessage ToggleStruts" to see if that yields the behavior you want, i.e. the VirtualBox window _above_ xmobar. I guess it is possible to enable avoidStruts only on some workspaces, probably with XMonad.Layout.PerWorkspace – I have not used that.

2. I want to start a few programs on xmonad startup. What is considered best practice, .xinitrc or .xmonad.hs?

I’d say .xinitrc.

3. How can I change the shift+mod+[c|q] shortcuts to something insanely impossible? I don't want people killing stuff by mistake.

Remove it completely? Or maybe have them enter commands in a XMonad.Prompt.XMonad. Gruß, Joachim -- Joachim Breitner e-Mail: mail@joachim-breitner.de Homepage: http://www.joachim-breitner.de Jabber-ID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de

Hello On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 02:52:54PM +0100, Thomas Løcke wrote:

I've been running xmonad for a while now, and I'm very happy with it, so happy in fact that I'm contemplating moving most of my employees from Windows XP to Linux with xmonad. Most of them are only using a specific set of applications, so we don't really need the extra hassle of having a WM/DE with all sorts of bells and whistles.

I hope they don't eat you alive for that ;-).

1. We need to be able to run a legacy Windows application. I plan on solving this with VirtualBox, and I would like for my employees to have this application available fullscreen at workspace 1, but when I fullscreen the virtual XP on this workspace, the bottom part of Windows "fall out" below the monitor. This is because I have xmobar running. If I disable xmobar the problem goes away. But I only want to disable xmobar for this one workspace. Is there a way to disable struts on a single workspace, preferably in xmonad.hs?

I know that's not exactly what you're asking for, but there are two other possibilities (I think both need the VirtualBox guest additions inside the virtual machine): • Let the Windows auto-resize according to the size of the VirtualBox window. That way, the Window desktop would be slightly smaller, but nothing would be missing. • There's some kind of seamless mode in VirtualBox. It then just takes the windows inside the virtual machine and tries to present them as stand-alone windows in your WM, removing all the Windows desktop and taskbar, etc.

4. VNC access. I'm guessing this works just the same as with KDE/Gnome, but I'd be interested in hearing if anybody got some experiences to share.

It's not VNC as such, but I use xmonad through ssh X11 forwarding (so I have local X server, remote xmonad and all the programs). It works well this way and in mixed mode too (some programs local, some remote, xmonad on either computer). I guess VNC wouldn't make much difference, since it's only transferring the final image somewhere else, so it shouldn't make a difference with the window manager used. With regards -- Commenting perl code is useless. You have to fully parse it anyway to find comments. Michal 'vorner' Vaner

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 02:52:54PM +0100, Thomas Løcke wrote:

Hey all,

I've been running xmonad for a while now, and I'm very happy with it, so happy in fact that I'm contemplating moving most of my employees from Windows XP to Linux with xmonad. Most of them are only using a specific set of applications, so we don't really need the extra hassle of having a WM/DE with all sorts of bells and whistles.

I do though have a couple of issues:

1. We need to be able to run a legacy Windows application. I plan on solving this with VirtualBox, and I would like for my employees to have this application available fullscreen at workspace 1, but when I fullscreen the virtual XP on this workspace, the bottom part of Windows "fall out" below the monitor. This is because I have xmobar running. If I disable xmobar the problem goes away. But I only want to disable xmobar for this one workspace. Is there a way to disable struts on a single workspace, preferably in xmonad.hs?

2. I want to start a few programs on xmonad startup. What is considered best practice, .xinitrc or .xmonad.hs?

3. How can I change the shift+mod+[c|q] shortcuts to something insanely impossible? I don't want people killing stuff by mistake.

You can change default keybindings by removing them and then adding new ones. Using http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Util-EZConfig.html makes it fairly simple. -Brent