[Xmonad] patch: wmdock script - manage dockable windows using dmenu

Donald Bruce Stewart dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Mon May 28 22:56:59 EDT 2007


k.kosciuszkiewicz:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm really enyoing the Xmonad experience so far, but inability to use 
> applications that insist on docking was a drawback to me. So I did my 
> firsts steps in the Xlib programming and here are the results. The hack 
> is really crude; script identifies windows that look like they should be 
> docked and optionally sends mouse events to them (most of such apps will 
> raise the main window after such treatment).

This is very timely. We added support for docking/status bar clients
just a couple of days ago. It should be possible to set an appropriate
gap width in your Config.hs, to reserve space for a dock on the edge of
the screen. Did you try this? 

Or does this patch solve a different problem?

-- Don


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