[xmonad] Bluetile

[Thomas Adam]

2009/8/28 Jan Vornberger <Jan.Vornberger at informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 01:29:40AM -0400, wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu wrote:
>> When an X window appears, it has a chance to request a particular
>> geometry (size and shape on the screen).  There are lots of good
>> reasons for this to happen.  Some apps have a "-geometry" argument
>> on the command line, some detect the shape of the screen and try to
>> show up in the center of the screen (or the center of one of the
>> screens, if their developers are Xinerama-savvy), some request the
>> same geometry as when they were closed the last time, and so on.  I
>> assume WorkspaceByPos detects which screen an app "wants to go to"
>> by where the requested geometry would put it.
>
> That's absolutely correct and a much better explanation than
> my "where it wants to go to". :-)
>
>> With these use cases in mind, it seems useful, and perhaps even a
>> nice feature.
>
> I'm not entirely happy about WorkspaceByPos in its current version:
>
> The way which WorkspaceByPos detects windows that do not have a
> requested geometry is by checking for the request for position 0,0.
> This seems to work fine, but I wonder if there is another, more 'proper'
> way to figure this out.

You should be looking at the Gravity of the window to determine this,
if not already doing so.

-- Thomas Adam