[xmonad] Gimp always floats whether I want it to or not

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 06:59:02AM -0600, Wirt Wolff wrote:
> Excerpts from Kathryn Andersen's message of Thu Apr 09 06:25:26 -0600 2009:
> > I don't want Gimp to start floating, but it always does.
> > This is my manage hook:
> > ....
> > As you can see, I do not apply a doFloat to Gimp, so I would have
> > thought that it wouldn't start in floating mode, but it always does.
> > What do I have to do to force it to be tiled?
> 
> Are you perhaps using in your defaultConfig the following?
> 
>     , manageHook = myManageHook <+> manageHook defaultConfig
> 
> The default manageHook floats Gimp and Mplayer iirc. So for us tiled
> Gimp lovers it's probably nicest to just use `manageHook = myManageHook'
> and add Mplayer hook to myManageHook if wanted.

Ah!  That is it!  Thank you.  Changed that, and it worked like a charm.
8-)
 
> As apology for the trouble, some bonus gimp tips including example of
> floating tool windows like levels, etc. :      ;-)
> 
> http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/General_xmonad.hs_config_tips#Gimp

Interesting.  I'm already using IM twice as the first paragraph
suggests.  I shall have to look at that page more in depth later.

Kathryn Andersen
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