[xmonad] XMonad is not playing well with floating windows

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Tue Sep 8 07:45:53 EDT 2009


massimo.gengarelli:
> Hi everyone,
> I'm quite new to XMonad and haskell itself, so I really don't know if
> it's a problem of my configuration file or it's the default behaviour of
> XMonad.
> Everytime I make a window floating, the tiled windows in background swap
> between themselves, without any reason or fixed rule. If I replace them
> in the order I want, they re-swap as soon as I move/resize the floated window.
> I'm using Linux Gentoo and XMonad 0.8.1.
> Thanks in advance.
> 

It's a consequence of the single focus model of tiling, with a
fullscreen background. See bug 4.

-- Donn


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