[xmonad] ManageHelpers: isDialog

[Brent Yorgey]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:12:00AM +0100, Johann Giwer wrote:
> Rox [http://rox.sourceforge.net] doesn't use WM_TRANSIENT_FOR for its
> dialogs, so xmonad treats them as ordinal windows.  So I wrote the Query
> 'isDialog' (which may be useful in other circumstances, too) and added
> it to XMonad.Hooks.ManageHelpers. 
> 
> After adding 'isDialog --> doCenterFloat' to the manage hook, xmonad
> shows rox dialogs as floating windows.
> 
> This is only a poor workaround:
> When such dialogs are closed, the focus does not go back to the parent
> window (how should it, xmonad does not know, which window it is).
> 
> Of course hacking rox would be the better solution.
> 
> -Johann
> 

Applied, thanks!  Your English is great, don't worry about it. =)

-Brent