[xmonad] Re: Floating gnome-do

[Tom Thorne]

Sorry gmail decided to send my email while I was halfway through
writing it - I tried using xprop and the WM_CLASS output is something
like /usr/lib/gnome-do/Do.exe for both the resource and class names.

Adding class =? "/usr/lib/gnome-do/Do.exe" --> doFloat didn't work..

can I add doFloat to the Do.exe -> doIgnore in my xmonad.hs somehow
(Do.exe -> doIgnore is also for gnomedo, no idea what it does but it
was mentioned in another post i found on this list and is needed for
the key presses to work I think)

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Braden Shepherdson
<Braden.Shepherdson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tom Thorne wrote:
>>
>> I've been trying to get a floating gnome-do without much success, I've
>> never programmed haskell before so i'm just cutting and pasting other
>> peoples xmonad.hs together!
>>
>> this is what my xmonad.hs looks like (I don't have a haskell mode for
>> emacs either hence the no doubt hideous indentation)
>>
>> import XMonad
>> import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks
>> import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog
>>
>> main = dzen $ \x -> xmonad $x
>>     {
>>        terminal = "terminal"
>>     , focusedBorderColor = "blue"
>>     , manageHook = myMHook <+> manageHook defaultConfig
>>     , layoutHook = avoidStruts $ layoutHook defaultConfig
>>     }
>>
>> myMHook = composeAll . concat $
>>        [
>>        [manageDocks],
>>        [resource =? "Do.exe" --> doIgnore,
>>
>>        title =? "Downloads" --> doFloat
>>        ]
>>        ]
>>
>> Obviously this doesnt work
>
>
> I don't have Gnome so I can't just check it, but here's how you find the
> names used for a ManageHook. Run the app you want to check, then run xprop
> in a terminal. Click on the app's window, and then examine the output from
> xprop. About ten lines up the bottom will be a line like this:
>
> WM_CLASS(STRING) = "gecko", "Thunderbird-bin"
>
> The first field, "gecko", is the resource name, the second is the class
> name. So I could write a ManageHook for Thunderbird like this:
>
> resource =? "gecko" --> doFloat
>
> or like this
>
> class =? "Thunderbird-bin" --> doFloat
>
> Class names are usually better than resource names, as they tend to be
> unique more often.
>
>
> Braden Shepherdson
> shepheb
>
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