[xmonad] small problems with doFullFloat

[Lara Michaels]

Dear Henrique, Wirt and Lythis,

Thank you for your great help. I added

isFullscreen --> doF W.focusDown <+> doFullFloat

which does allow me to use windows in other monitors without making the Youtube video disappear. The downside is that it works *for as long as I am careful not to accidentally return focus to the fullscreen video*. Once that happens, the video is gone for good if I switch to another monitor/window. But even with this small imperfection it is already useful.
(Is there a way around this?)

@Lythis: I also tried Gnash, but found that the CPU usage stays at 100% even after the Youtube video stops playing... : / It does handle the screen resizing much better than Adobe's player, though. Thank you for the tip!

Best
~l





--- On Tue, 7/6/10, Henrique G. Abreu <hgabreu at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Henrique G. Abreu <hgabreu at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [xmonad] small problems with doFullFloat
To: "xmonad"
 <xmonad at haskell.org>
Date: Tuesday, July 6, 2010, 6:55 PM

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 15:13, Wirt Wolff <wirtwolff at gmail.com>
 wrote:
isFullscreen --> doF W.focusDown <+> doFullFloat


Nice workaround, don't give it the focus so it won't lose it when the mouse leaves.
This will probably introduce another minor problems, but is still nice!
Like the Esc key will not close the window, since it does not have the focus;


Also, if one uses X.H.FadeInactive the window will get faded out (which could also be workarounded).

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 15:13, Wirt Wolff <wirtwolff at gmail.com>
 wrote:
There's also fullscreen event hook in darcs Hooks.ManageHelpers you...



The fullscreen eventHook is in EwmhDesktops, not ManageHelpers :)

Henrique G. Abreu






> Problem 2: The second problem is that the moment I move focus away from this screen (I have two monitors) the full-screen video disappears. Eg, if I move my mouse to the second monitor to edit an email then the full-screen video disappears.





Try





This seems to work for problem 2 for most users. I had the impression

that the small-size mid-screen bar issue was a property of the player

used by the site and flash version. At least it behaves that same way

on certain sites for me using metacity too. Definitely could be wrong

about that though.



There's also fullscreen event hook in darcs Hooks.ManageHelpers you

could try, but for me vlc and evince are the only apps I use that need

it.



regards,

--

wmw

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