[Xmonad] darcs patch: make workspace tag not need to be a Num.

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 06:08:01PM -0700, David Roundy wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 06:02:53PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> > > > It definitely has nothing to do with Xinerama.  Probably it has a lot to
> > > > do with the fact that we used to hide windows by moving them offscreen;
> > > > this needs to be re-evaluated.  As such I'm CC-ing the deciders.
> > > 
> > > Ah, then an easy solution would seem to be to move windows offscreen by a
> > > fixed distance (chosen perhaps to be larger than any reasonable viewable
> > > area, or perhaps chosen at runtime to be larger than the actual screen
> > > area).
> > > 
> > > But why is it that we can't just unmap the windows? (possibly displaying my
> > > ignorance...)
> > 
> > Indeed. :)  I used past tense, because unmapping is what we do now.
> 
> Ah, yes, I see that you did use the past tense... so presumably we no
> longer would need to store and restore those positions?

Right.

Stefan