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

[Bruce Stephens]

David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> writes:

> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:37:34PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:

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>> 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.

Ah, but that's tricky for xinerama, as I understand it.  Anyway, I was
just suggesting one new layer per screen, so that doesn't feel huge.
Admittedly, presumably it's conceptually a new kind of layer, which is
bad.  And maybe it's not worth it.

My hunch is the right way to do this is to have some windows always
present on a screen.  I'm thinking of that in terms of something like
the new floating layers, but maybe there's a cleaner way to do it.

(I should confess to being attracted by the tagging approach of wmii,
dwm.  That would presumably be a good way to allow windows to be in
multiple workspaces.  However, I'm not sure whether that's the best
way.  It feels like it would be a radical change for xmonad.)

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