[xmonad] Re: Floating gnome-do

[Daniel Spoonhower]

If you haven't found it yet, this documentation might be helpful:

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xmonad-contrib/0.7/doc/html/XMonad-Doc-Extending.html#15

"doIgnore" tells XMonad not to do any management of Gnome Do.  This is 
what you want -- you don't want any tiling, window borders, title bars, 
etc. for Do.  (At least, I assume this is what you want -- this is the 
way I have Do set up.)

When you say "didn't work" do you mean that the global key binding 
doesn't work?  Or that the Do window pops up in a strange place?  Or 
some other problem?


--spoons

Tom Thorne wrote:
> 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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