[xmonad] xemacs and xmonad

[Spencer Janssen]

On Wednesday 12 December 2007 07:59:57 Bas van Dijk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First of all, thanks for the wonderfull 0.5 release! The automatic
> building of '~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs' is a very time saving feature! Al
> dough modmask-q doesn't work for me but I will save that for another
> thread.
>
> Now my problem. I'm recently doing some Epigram programming and you
> need xemacs for that. The problem is that when xmonad is setting the
> size of the xemacs window, the xemacs process goes to 100% CPU usage
> and the xemacs window begins to flicker a lot and is just unusable.
> What probably happens is that when xmonad is setting the window size,
> xemacs wants to set it back, then xmonad sets it back, then xemacs set
> it back, then xmonad... ad infinitum.
>
> A workaround that I'm currently using is to use the HintedTile layout
> instead of the Tall layout. This works wonderfully however when using
> other layouts, like Circle, the problem returns.
>
> Is there a way to tell xmonad that it should respect the hints from
> xemacs in _every_ layout?
>
> I think I can possibly use the 'manageHook' for this. The problem with
> this is that emacs and xemacs have the same className.
>
> Any pointers are appreciated.
>
> regards,
>
> Bas

You can use XMonad.Layout.LayoutHints to transform any layout into a
hint-respecting layout.


Cheers,
Spencer Janssen