[xmonad] Re: some cleanup

Tom Rauchenwald sehnsucht.nach.unendlichkeit at quantentunnel.de
Fri Feb 1 04:16:31 EST 2008


Spencer Janssen <sjanssen at cse.unl.edu>
writes:

> The tabbed layout should only return the focused window -- there are
> performance implications (much fewer expose events and repaints generated), it
> gives better information to layout modifiers that count the number of returned
> windows (like smartBorders), and it's just the right thing to do (non-visible
> windows should be in the unmapped state is standard WM convention).

What about when running a composite manager? I run xcompmgr (at least
occasionally) and noticed that now the inactive tabs can be seen in a
translucent term, previously only the desktop background would shine
through. 

> Cheers,
> Spencer Janssen

Tom



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