Floating gnome-do

Tom Thorne

8 Jul 2008 8 Jul '08

10:34 a.m.

I've been trying to get a floating gnome-do without much success, I've never programmed haskell before so i'm just cutting and pasting other peoples xmonad.hs together! this is what my xmonad.hs looks like (I don't have a haskell mode for emacs either hence the no doubt hideous indentation) import XMonad import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog main = dzen $ \x -> xmonad $x { terminal = "terminal" , focusedBorderColor = "blue" , manageHook = myMHook <+> manageHook defaultConfig , layoutHook = avoidStruts $ layoutHook defaultConfig } myMHook = composeAll . concat $ [ [manageDocks], [resource =? "Do.exe" --> doIgnore, title =? "Downloads" --> doFloat ] ] Obviously this doesnt work

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Braden Shepherdson

8 Jul 8 Jul

11:21 a.m.

Tom Thorne wrote:

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I've been trying to get a floating gnome-do without much success, I've never programmed haskell before so i'm just cutting and pasting other peoples xmonad.hs together!

this is what my xmonad.hs looks like (I don't have a haskell mode for emacs either hence the no doubt hideous indentation)

import XMonad import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog

main = dzen $ \x -> xmonad $x { terminal = "terminal" , focusedBorderColor = "blue" , manageHook = myMHook <+> manageHook defaultConfig , layoutHook = avoidStruts $ layoutHook defaultConfig }

myMHook = composeAll . concat $ [ [manageDocks], [resource =? "Do.exe" --> doIgnore,

title =? "Downloads" --> doFloat ] ]

Obviously this doesnt work

I don't have Gnome so I can't just check it, but here's how you find the names used for a ManageHook. Run the app you want to check, then run xprop in a terminal. Click on the app's window, and then examine the output from xprop. About ten lines up the bottom will be a line like this: WM_CLASS(STRING) = "gecko", "Thunderbird-bin" The first field, "gecko", is the resource name, the second is the class name. So I could write a ManageHook for Thunderbird like this: resource =? "gecko" --> doFloat or like this class =? "Thunderbird-bin" --> doFloat Class names are usually better than resource names, as they tend to be unique more often. Braden Shepherdson shepheb

Tom Thorne

12:06 p.m.

Sorry gmail decided to send my email while I was halfway through writing it - I tried using xprop and the WM_CLASS output is something like /usr/lib/gnome-do/Do.exe for both the resource and class names. Adding class =? "/usr/lib/gnome-do/Do.exe" --> doFloat didn't work.. can I add doFloat to the Do.exe -> doIgnore in my xmonad.hs somehow (Do.exe -> doIgnore is also for gnomedo, no idea what it does but it was mentioned in another post i found on this list and is needed for the key presses to work I think) On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Braden Shepherdson wrote:

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Tom Thorne wrote:

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I've been trying to get a floating gnome-do without much success, I've never programmed haskell before so i'm just cutting and pasting other peoples xmonad.hs together!

this is what my xmonad.hs looks like (I don't have a haskell mode for emacs either hence the no doubt hideous indentation)

import XMonad import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog

main = dzen $ \x -> xmonad $x { terminal = "terminal" , focusedBorderColor = "blue" , manageHook = myMHook <+> manageHook defaultConfig , layoutHook = avoidStruts $ layoutHook defaultConfig }

myMHook = composeAll . concat $ [ [manageDocks], [resource =? "Do.exe" --> doIgnore,

title =? "Downloads" --> doFloat ] ]

Obviously this doesnt work

I don't have Gnome so I can't just check it, but here's how you find the names used for a ManageHook. Run the app you want to check, then run xprop in a terminal. Click on the app's window, and then examine the output from xprop. About ten lines up the bottom will be a line like this:

WM_CLASS(STRING) = "gecko", "Thunderbird-bin"

The first field, "gecko", is the resource name, the second is the class name. So I could write a ManageHook for Thunderbird like this:

resource =? "gecko" --> doFloat

or like this

class =? "Thunderbird-bin" --> doFloat

Class names are usually better than resource names, as they tend to be unique more often.

Braden Shepherdson shepheb

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Daniel Spoonhower

12:27 p.m.

If you haven't found it yet, this documentation might be helpful: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xmonad-contrib/0.7/doc/html/XMon... "doIgnore" tells XMonad not to do any management of Gnome Do. This is what you want -- you don't want any tiling, window borders, title bars, etc. for Do. (At least, I assume this is what you want -- this is the way I have Do set up.) When you say "didn't work" do you mean that the global key binding doesn't work? Or that the Do window pops up in a strange place? Or some other problem? --spoons Tom Thorne wrote:

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Sorry gmail decided to send my email while I was halfway through writing it - I tried using xprop and the WM_CLASS output is something like /usr/lib/gnome-do/Do.exe for both the resource and class names.

Adding class =? "/usr/lib/gnome-do/Do.exe" --> doFloat didn't work..

can I add doFloat to the Do.exe -> doIgnore in my xmonad.hs somehow (Do.exe -> doIgnore is also for gnomedo, no idea what it does but it was mentioned in another post i found on this list and is needed for the key presses to work I think)

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Braden Shepherdson wrote:

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Tom Thorne wrote:

...
I've been trying to get a floating gnome-do without much success, I've never programmed haskell before so i'm just cutting and pasting other peoples xmonad.hs together!

this is what my xmonad.hs looks like (I don't have a haskell mode for emacs either hence the no doubt hideous indentation)

import XMonad import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog

main = dzen $ \x -> xmonad $x { terminal = "terminal" , focusedBorderColor = "blue" , manageHook = myMHook <+> manageHook defaultConfig , layoutHook = avoidStruts $ layoutHook defaultConfig }

myMHook = composeAll . concat $ [ [manageDocks], [resource =? "Do.exe" --> doIgnore,

title =? "Downloads" --> doFloat ] ]

Obviously this doesnt work

I don't have Gnome so I can't just check it, but here's how you find the names used for a ManageHook. Run the app you want to check, then run xprop in a terminal. Click on the app's window, and then examine the output from xprop. About ten lines up the bottom will be a line like this:

WM_CLASS(STRING) = "gecko", "Thunderbird-bin"

The first field, "gecko", is the resource name, the second is the class name. So I could write a ManageHook for Thunderbird like this:

resource =? "gecko" --> doFloat

or like this

class =? "Thunderbird-bin" --> doFloat

Class names are usually better than resource names, as they tend to be unique more often.

Braden Shepherdson shepheb

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Tom Thorne

12:50 p.m.

Aha! I didn't realise doIgnore would also cause it to float. It turns out that resource =? Do.exe that I copied from someone else's xmonad.hs was incorrect for my installation and so the gnome-do window was still tiling. it should have been resource =? "Do" -->doIgnore, it now works perfectly Thank you very much! On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Daniel Spoonhower wrote:

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If you haven't found it yet, this documentation might be helpful:

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xmonad-contrib/0.7/doc/html/XMon...

"doIgnore" tells XMonad not to do any management of Gnome Do. This is what you want -- you don't want any tiling, window borders, title bars, etc. for Do. (At least, I assume this is what you want -- this is the way I have Do set up.)

When you say "didn't work" do you mean that the global key binding doesn't work? Or that the Do window pops up in a strange place? Or some other problem?

--spoons

Tom Thorne wrote:

...
Sorry gmail decided to send my email while I was halfway through writing it - I tried using xprop and the WM_CLASS output is something like /usr/lib/gnome-do/Do.exe for both the resource and class names.

Adding class =? "/usr/lib/gnome-do/Do.exe" --> doFloat didn't work..

can I add doFloat to the Do.exe -> doIgnore in my xmonad.hs somehow (Do.exe -> doIgnore is also for gnomedo, no idea what it does but it was mentioned in another post i found on this list and is needed for the key presses to work I think)

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Braden Shepherdson wrote:

...
Tom Thorne wrote:

...
I've been trying to get a floating gnome-do without much success, I've never programmed haskell before so i'm just cutting and pasting other peoples xmonad.hs together!

this is what my xmonad.hs looks like (I don't have a haskell mode for emacs either hence the no doubt hideous indentation)

import XMonad import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog

main = dzen $ \x -> xmonad $x { terminal = "terminal" , focusedBorderColor = "blue" , manageHook = myMHook <+> manageHook defaultConfig , layoutHook = avoidStruts $ layoutHook defaultConfig }

myMHook = composeAll . concat $ [ [manageDocks], [resource =? "Do.exe" --> doIgnore,

title =? "Downloads" --> doFloat ] ]

Obviously this doesnt work

I don't have Gnome so I can't just check it, but here's how you find the names used for a ManageHook. Run the app you want to check, then run xprop in a terminal. Click on the app's window, and then examine the output from xprop. About ten lines up the bottom will be a line like this:

WM_CLASS(STRING) = "gecko", "Thunderbird-bin"

The first field, "gecko", is the resource name, the second is the class name. So I could write a ManageHook for Thunderbird like this:

resource =? "gecko" --> doFloat

or like this

class =? "Thunderbird-bin" --> doFloat

Class names are usually better than resource names, as they tend to be unique more often.

Braden Shepherdson shepheb

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