[xmonad] Re: background applications

[Justin Bogner]

Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> writes:
> Once you have that up and running though, you might run into another
> issue.  One that I haven't found any solution to yet.  Some
> applications seem to minimise just fine under other WMs, but refuse to
> do so under xmonad.  The only application I frequently use suffering
> from this is empathy.  If you run into the same issue, and manage to
> solve it, then please pass on the information :-)

XMonad.Hooks.Minimize can handle how empathy minimizes. The problem is
that empathy uses hints to minimize, rather than just hiding its own
window.