[xmonad] Newbie: Problems with Layouts and Syntax

[Marnix Klooster]

Hi John Spencer Janssen [grin],

larswm has an option called tile_resize: when a window with that option
is shown elsewhere with different dimensions, the underlying application
does not receive an X resize event.  Instead, larswm just shows the
top-left part of the window, as much as fits into the "viewport" on the
screen.

Usually that top-left part shows enough information to identify the
complete contents of the window.  And if the window is then moved back
to the 'master' area, the complete windows is visible again.

This makes applications like xterm work with larswm.

I think that such a 'viewport' function could be useful in xmonad as
well, in some form or shape.  It saves window resizes, which saves CPU
and makes xterm etc. useable.  Or is there already some other feature in
xmonad(-contrib) to do something like this?

Groetjes,
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Marnix
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmonad-bounces at haskell.org 
> [mailto:xmonad-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Spencer Janssen
> Sent: Saturday, 1 March, 2008 0:15
> To: xmonad at haskell.org
> Subject: Re: [xmonad] Newbie: Problems with Layouts and Syntax
> 
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:01:10PM +0100, john spencer wrote:
> >    (ie. aterm, konsole) seem to get resized which results 
> in a nearly
> >    blank window when getting them back to the master. I 
> don't know why
> >    the behaviour in larswm is different here - any ideas?
> 
> Some terminals don't handle resizing very well.  We tend to 
> recommend urxvt for
> that reason.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Spencer Janssen
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