[xmonad] So Long, Farewell

[Kyle Murphy]

That does look like a nice setup. Maybe something like that should be
included in the default config and the bindings listed on the guided tour
page of the xmonad site? It does seem odd that in the default config every
other action (including toggling floating status) can be accomplished using
only the keyboard with the exceptions of resizing and moving floating
windows. I'm relatively new to XMonad myself (I've been using it for a bit
over a week) so it's possible there is a default binding for moving and
resizing windows, but if there is it's not documented anywhere that a newbie
would be expected to run across it and that strikes me as a problem.

-Kyle

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Chengqi Song <songcq at gmail.com> wrote:

> Please find the 4 lines below the line '-- moving floating window with key'
> in my xmonad.hs;
>
> Its effect:
> 1. move window around using M-Arrows,
> 2. resize windows using C-Arrows,
> 3. Holding <Shift> to move/resize 2 pixels per step instead of 20 pixels.
>
> I've been using this configuration for quite a while and found its very
> convenient.
>
> -lars
>
> On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Kyle Murphy wrote:
>
> > I also find it somewhat awkward and feel it breaks one of the primary
> > tenents if xmonad which is that you should be able to do everything with
> > the keyboard. Maybe it would be a good idea to provide some default
> > bindings to allow floating window movement and resizing using the
> > keyboard alone? Something like the way in windows and some other WMs
> > where you can enter a moving or resizing mode and then use the arrow keys
> > to adjust the window?
> >
> > On Jul 26, 2009, at 11:18 PM, Jeremy Shaw <jeremy at n-heptane.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I dislike the interface for handling floating windows as well. I too
> >> often like to drink and manage floating windows...
> >>
> >> - jeremy
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