Dominik Bruhn writes:

Hy, I got two problems using firefox and xmonad. I know (because ion3 has the same problems) that this is not a xmonad-issue but a firefox. Nevertheless perhaps somebody got a solution:

1. If you launch firefox in a big frame (perhaps fullscreen) and either move it to a smaller frame (change layout from tabbed to tall for example) or resize the whole screen (because of resolution-changes when switching from notebook-screen to external lcd) the popup-menus (as well as the menus in the status-bar like adblock, noscript, firebug) open in the wrong direction, because firefox didnt regognize the size-change. This leads into a big problem if you resized your screen from a bigger resolution to a smaller one: You cant use the popup-menus at all, they open out of the screen. In the oposite direction, when changing the resolution from small to big and you try to open a popup-menu it sometimes doesnt display at all.

FYI, I just compiled firfox 3.0 with xulrunner backend, and it can now recognize Xinerama information correctly. I'm not sure about changing resolution on single screen, though. But I guess that is the same thing and should be fixed now in 3.0.

2. Many Firefox-Windows should float above the firefox window and not get repositioned by xmonad (the about-dialog, the downloads, the prefrences).

I tried to search the firefox bugtracker but as "firefox and resize" leads into thousand of javascript-issues i havent found anything until now.

This is indeed annoying, but you can always set a managerHook. Though I never bothered to do so. -- c/* __o/* <\ * (__ */\ <