[xmonad] Termite does not work as scratchpad

[e.a.gebhart at gmail.com]

That's interesting. I don't see a --disable-factory option for
termite. I don't have gnome terminal installed at the moment to see
what it's options are.


Sure. Here's what I have.  I'm used both named scratchpad and
scratchpad. I set myTerminal to urxvt which works fine.
If I set it to Termite it acts very strangely.

urxvt is currently hard coded for the regular scratchpad but it acts the
same way if I change it to termite.



scratchpadSize = W.RationalRect (1/4) (1/4) (1/3) (3/7)
mySPFloat = customFloating scratchpadSize

-- with a flexible location.
flexScratchpadSize dx dy = W.RationalRect (dx) (dy) (1/3) (3/7)
flexFloatSP dx dy = customFloating (flexScratchpadSize dx dy)

scratchpads =
  [ NS "term"  (myTerminal ++ " -title term") (title =? "term") (flexFloatSP (1/10) (1/10))
  , NS "term2" (myTerminal ++ " -title term2") (title =? "term2") (flexFloatSP (1/3) (1/10))
  , NS "ghci"  (myTerminal ++ " -e ghci") (title =? "ghci") (flexFloatSP (2/3) (1/10))
  --, NS "sync"  (myTerminal ++ " -e sy") (title =? "sy") (flexFloatSP (1/10) (2/3))
  , NS "top"   (myTerminal ++ " -e htop") (title =? "htop") (flexFloatSP (1/4) (1/4))
  , NS "calc"  (myTerminal ++ " -e bc") (title =? "bc") (flexFloatSP (1/4) (1/4))
  ]

scratchToggle a = namedScratchpadAction scratchpads a >> bringMouse

namedScratchpadsKeymap = -- Scratch Pads
    [ ("o", scratchToggle "term") -- Term
    , ("e", scratchToggle "term2") -- Term2
    , ("g", scratchToggle "ghci") -- ghci
    , ("c", scratchToggle "calc") -- calc
    , ("t", scratchToggle "top") -- top
    , ("k", scratchToggle "mkb") -- matchbox Keyboard
    , ("n", scratchpadSpawnActionTerminal  "urxvt -background rgba:0000/0000/0200/c800") -- scratchpad
    ]


Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> writes:

> Can you show how you're configuring the scratchpad?
>
> In general, terminals --- especially the VTE-based ones --- have extra
> "gotchas" as described at
> https://wiki.haskell.org/Xmonad/General_xmonad.hs_config_tips#Terminal_emulator_factories
> . It takes some care to both get the scratchpad to behave *and* not have
> every terminal be thought a scratchpad.
>
> On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 10:01 AM, <e.a.gebhart at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am interested in using the Termite terminal as my scratchpad
>> but it doesn't actually work as a scratchpad and I'm wondering why.
>>
>> It seems unable to float.  Gnome terminal has the same behavior for
>> me and apparently Termite uses the same foundation as Gnome terminal.
>>
>> So I'm wondering if it is a short coming of the terminal or if there is
>> something I can do to make it work.
>>
>> Has anyone got this working ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Eric
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