[Xmonad] Re: Emailing: A taste of Haskell.pdf

Spencer Janssen sjanssen at cse.unl.edu
Thu Jul 5 10:32:27 EDT 2007


On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:01:58 +0100
Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:

> What I'm still missing is: why doesn't xmonad get told the correct
> window size by xnest?  The -geom thing tells xnest how big a window
> it should throw up, but regardless of its window size it should
> report it faithfully to xmonad.
> 
> Similarly on resizing, which comprehensively does not work -- ie
> resizing the xnest window, making it smaller, is not reflected in the
> xmonad layout. Instead xnest just truncates even more of it.
> 
> S

Xnest is just not very nice in this respect -- it chooses a geometry at
start up and sticks with it.  It continues to report the same geometry
to clients, no matter how you resize the containing Xnest window.


Cheers,
Spencer Janssen


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