[xmonad] bug using NoBorders and HintedTile

[Ivan Miljenovic]

On 2 June 2010 07:30, TeXitoi <texitoi+news at texitoi.eu> wrote:
> Because having a google account is against my religion,

Really?  I didn't know of any faiths that had specific prohibitions
against any specific modern technology (whereas the Amish, etc.
exclude _all_ modern technology)...

Also, I have no idea what your actual bug is from reading your
attached config...

> I post here a bug report. Sumbit it to the bug tracker if you want.
>
> The xmonad.hs showing the bug with comments:
>
> ########
> import XMonad hiding (Tall)
> import XMonad.Layout.NoBorders
> import XMonad.Layout.HintedTile
> import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks
>
> -- open 2 terminals. focus on one. launch top inside. change layout twice
>
> -- focused window do not follow hints
> buggy = defaultConfig {
>        manageHook = manageHook defaultConfig <+> manageDocks,
>        layoutHook = avoidStruts . smartBorders $ tiled ||| Full
> }
>
> -- focused window will first not follow hints, and then follow.
> flashing = defaultConfig {
>        layoutHook = smartBorders $ tiled ||| Full
> }
>
> -- normal behavior, distributing smartBorders
> workarround = defaultConfig {
>        manageHook = manageHook defaultConfig <+> manageDocks,
>        layoutHook = avoidStruts $ smartBorders tiled ||| smartBorders Full
> }
>
> main = xmonad buggy
>
> tiled = HintedTile 1 0.03 0.5 TopLeft Tall
> ########
>
> I didn't find the explaination, but I suspect smartBorder saying to
> the layout that the focused window do not have border (because of the
> previous layout without border) and that HintedTile compute the size
> of the window as there is no border, and then smartBorders add the
> borders (resulting of a smaller window that do not follows hints).
>
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