[xmonad] Initial Layout

[Brent Yorgey]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 01:10:47PM +0300, kevind256 wrote:
> How about assigning such function to manage hook, but the function
> itself would check if all the required windows are present, and if it
> hasn't acted before (so it would act only one time - after startup,
> and after all manage hooks have run. During the last one, to be
> precise).

Hmm, yes, this should be possible, but I think it would be a lot of
work coding it up.  I'd like to help but I'm not sure how to help in a
way that wouldn't take a lot more time than I have.

-Brent

> On 1/20/11, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 01:02:22PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote:
> >> I am starting xterm, iceweasel (aka firefox) and pidgin from .xsession:
> >>
> >> iceweasel &
> >> pidgin &
> >> uxterm -e 'tmux new mutt' &
> >> exec /usr/bin/x-window-manager
> >>
> >> And using the following xmonad configuration:
> >>
> >> myManageHook = composeAll [
> >>         className =? "Gimp" --> doFloat,
> >>         className =? "Iceweasel" --> doF (W.shift "1"),
> >>         (className =? "Iceweasel" <&&> resource =? "Dialog") --> doFloat,
> >>         className =? "Pidgin" <&&> title =? "Buddy List" --> doShift "2"
> >>         ]
> >>
> >> main = xmonad $ ewmh defaultConfig {
> >>         borderWidth = 1,
> >>         manageHook = myManageHook <+> manageHook defaultConfig,
> >>         modMask = mod4Mask,
> >>         terminal = "/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator -e tmux"
> >>         }
> >>
> >> This gives me the following behavior:
> >>
> >> xterm on workspace 1 right
> >> iceweasel on workspace 1 left
> >> pidgin on workspace 2
> >>
> >> active desktop is 2.  Two questions (a) Is there a way to swap xterm and
> >> iceweasel for the initial session?  (b) And how do I tell xmoand that
> >> workspace
> >> 1 should be active?  I am happy to dig more into the docs.
> >
> > Honestly I am not sure there is a good way to do this.  One problem is
> > that the manage hooks are not guaranteed to run in any particular
> > order; another problem is there's no good way that I know of to run
> > some action *after* all the manage hooks have run.  You can define a
> > startupHook in your configuration to be run when xmonad starts, but
> > that runs *before* the manage hooks so it won't help you.  The only
> > way I can think to do it would be to make a keybinding which will
> > arrange the windows for you and take you to to workspace 1, which
> > should be possible with a little StackSet munging.
> >
> > -Brent
> >
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