[Xmonad] sticky windows?

[David Roundy]

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 08:23:55AM +0900, Robert Marlow wrote:
> 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.

The idea (I think) would be to modify Operations and StackSet to not barf
on sticky windows, but leave the current behavior unmodified.  Then the
actual interface to make windows sticky could be developed in Contrib.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University