[Xmonad] sticky windows?

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

droundy:
> 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.

I think we have a reasonable semantics for how this would work, barring
gaps in xinerama tiling. We'll revisit it before 0.3, I'd imagine.

-- Don