[Xmonad] darcs patch: first shot at a floating layer

[David Roundy]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:37:34PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> It makes using things like gkrellm possible: I can start it, and then
> conveniently float it somewhere out of the way.  On the other hand,
> for things like gkrellm, I really *want* that to remain visible when I
> switch workspaces.
> 
> Maybe there's a place for a per-screen decoration layer, always
> visible, in which I can stick clocks, status bars, GNOME panels, etc.?
> Hmm, maybe just things that just display information (rather than
> interact)?  (And then maybe I could use xcompmgr or something to make
> them translucent?)

Let's keep the number of layers down, and just allow windows to be present
in multiple workspaces.

> Another (much more trivial) decoration I'd like is the number of the
> workspace.  I guess that could use the per-workspace floating layer.
> (I imagine that as a translucent number in a corner, but I guess it
> could equally be opaque.  For preference it wouldn't take
> focus---actually, it would be nice to be able to have some clients not
> participate in focus---I don't want to type things into gkrellm, for
> example.)

Preventing some windows from getting the focus is definitely a feature I'd
like.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University