[Xmonad] darcs patch: add XWMHints bindings

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Wed Oct 10 20:28:43 EDT 2007


sjanssen:
> On Tuesday 09 October 2007 23:54:59 Devin Mullins wrote:
> > Below is a patch to X11-extras to allow reading/writing of the XWMHints
> > struct. I would like to see this used to add UrgencyHint support to xmonad
> > (I have a patch pending for that).
> >
> > I went with a fairly simple serialization (rather than fancy Maybe or Bool
> > records) because xmonad won't care about most of these values, and hence I
> > felt it wasn't worth the effort to provide much more than bare metal.
> >
> > Thoughts? (If you have any experience writing Haskell/C bindings, I'd
> > apreciate your input. I'm new.)
> >
> > Wed Oct 10 00:45:01 EDT 2007  Devin Mullins <me at twifkak.com>
> >   * add XWMHints bindings
> >   also added withdrawnState, normalState, and iconicState, which are
> > somewhat related
> 
> Since we're coming up on a feature freeze, I'm going to wait until after 0.4
> to apply this patch.

Agreed, since it needs some review (X11-extras stuff is extra tricky to
get right).


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