[Xmonad] XMonadContrib.Tabbed

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

dave:
> Alec Berryman wrote:
> > Dave Harrison on 2007-06-27 11:25:08 +1000:
> > 
> >> I just checked out the latest xmonad, X11-extras and XMonadContrib
> >> from darcs ( figured a fresh install was a good idea ).  It's all
> >> working fine, except that when I move focus to a workspace, the tabs
> >> for that workspace lose all of their titles strings.  The unfocused
> >> workspace is fine.
> > 
> > I see the same behavoir with a freshly updated checkout.
> > 
> > I have two screens configured with Xinerama; if I use the tabbed layout,
> > open two or more windows on the first, switch to the second, and open
> > two or more windows there, the tabs on the second screen lose their
> > text.  If I switch focus back to the first screen, the second screen's
> > tabs appear correctly but the first screen's disappear.
> 
> Yep, that matches my experience.
> 
> > Additionally, if I close all but one of the windows on a screen, I
> > expect the tab bar to disappear, but it remains the same as it did
> > before - no text - but the tabs overlap with the window, as if they've
> > been drawn on the screen and forgotten.  Closing the final window does
> > not make them go away, nor does changing the workspace on that screen;
> > however, the phantom tabs are in the background on that different
> > workspace.
> 
> Yep, also seeing this.

I'd just use the core layouts until the contrib modules catch up, or are
patched.

-- Don