[xmonad] darcs patch: Always float ediff windows

[Spencer Janssen]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:37:31PM -0500, Alec Berryman wrote:
> ediff is a popular and widely-used interactive diff/merge mode included
> with emacs.  It works by opening up a small window that the user keeps
> in focus while using ediff commands like next patch; if the main emacs
> window is in focus, none of the ediff key commands are available.  The
> small window generally obscures what the user is interested in and is
> kept as small and out of the way as possible; by default, it opens up
> very tiny in the top right of the screen.
> 
> The window is already in way just by existing, but having xmonad try to
> manage it really screws things up.  It's in the same class as MPlayer
> and GIMP; there's no use case for managing it, so do the right thing by
> default and always float it.
> 
> I used title instead of className because the className is emacs, and
> floating all emacs buffers is definitely not the right thing to do.
> 
> Wed Jan 30 18:38:20 EST 2008  Alec Berryman <alec at thened.net>
>   * Always float ediff windows

I tend to agree with Andrea's analysis here -- I don't think we can get into
adding these workarounds for every goofy application.

You might consider sending a bug report to the emacs people, setting
WM_TRANSIENT_FOR on this window will improve this application's behavior in all
window managers.


Cheers,
Spencer Janssen