[xmonad] darcs patch: Support for spawning processes on a specific workspace

Thomas Adam thomas.adam22 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 02:00:55 EST 2009


2009/1/26 Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info>:
> Another question: what will happen to multi-window application, like
> Gimp? Will only the first window be redirected to another ws?
> (If other windows set TRANSIENT_FOR, this shouldn't be a problem,
> though)

It's not just transient windows in this case -- you also have to cater
for window groups (see WM_HINTS).  Whilst the ICCCM doesn't specify
how these should be managed, most window managers will keep the
grouped windows together with the leader; perhaps XMonad should do the
same.

-- Thomas Adam


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