I also find it somewhat awkward and feel it breaks one of the primary tenents if xmonad which is that you should be able to do everything with the keyboard. Maybe it would be a good idea to provide some default bindings to allow floating window movement and resizing using the keyboard alone? Something like the way in windows and some other WMs where you can enter a moving or resizing mode and then use the arrow keys to adjust the window? On Jul 26, 2009, at 11:18 PM, Jeremy Shaw wrote:

I dislike the interface for handling floating windows as well. I too often like to drink and manage floating windows...

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That does look like a nice setup. Maybe something like that should be included in the default config and the bindings listed on the guided tour page of the xmonad site? It does seem odd that in the default config every other action (including toggling floating status) can be accomplished using only the keyboard with the exceptions of resizing and moving floating windows. I'm relatively new to XMonad myself (I've been using it for a bit over a week) so it's possible there is a default binding for moving and resizing windows, but if there is it's not documented anywhere that a newbie would be expected to run across it and that strikes me as a problem. -Kyle On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Chengqi Song wrote:

Please find the 4 lines below the line '-- moving floating window with key' in my xmonad.hs;

Its effect: 1. move window around using M-Arrows, 2. resize windows using C-Arrows, 3. Holding <Shift> to move/resize 2 pixels per step instead of 20 pixels.

I've been using this configuration for quite a while and found its very convenient.

-lars

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Kyle Murphy wrote:

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I also find it somewhat awkward and feel it breaks one of the primary tenents if xmonad which is that you should be able to do everything with the keyboard. Maybe it would be a good idea to provide some default bindings to allow floating window movement and resizing using the keyboard alone? Something like the way in windows and some other WMs where you can enter a moving or resizing mode and then use the arrow keys to adjust the window?

On Jul 26, 2009, at 11:18 PM, Jeremy Shaw wrote:

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I dislike the interface for handling floating windows as well. I too often like to drink and manage floating windows...

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