[Xmonad] sticky windows?

[Robert Marlow]

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 09:14 -0700, David Roundy wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:09:56PM -0500, Spencer Janssen wrote:
> > If we change the delete behavior, I think we can do this in
> > XMonadContrib.  What do you think?
> 
> That seems to be the way to go.

I had a look into this yesterday. Additional to what has been mentioned,
it'd require a small change to Operations.refresh. Unfortunately much of
Operations.hs and Main.hs depend on refresh so all these functions would
also need to be rewritten to use any new implementation of refresh. So
it's not something that can easily be put into Contrib. It would be much
simpler to modify Operations.refresh directly.

Perhaps an alternative is to provide a patch to refresh, insert etc in
MonadContrib rather than a module?

Another alternative is to improve configurability by making StackSet a
class providing several methods such as visibleWindows for refresh and
other operations to use. Tagging, focus stacks and xinerama could then
all be implemented in contrib by providing their own StackSet data types
and methods. With both tagging and xinerama in Contrib, the user could
choose which they prefer based on their setup. However, it would require
a fair bit of LoC to provide such an API and doubt that providing an API
for replacing arbitrary components of the system is really within the
scope of the project.


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Robert Marlow <bobstopper at bobturf.org>