[xmonad] Initial Layout

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 1/20/11 10:12 , Brent Yorgey 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

XMonad.Actions.SpawnOn, since both firefox/iceweasel and sufficiently recent
xterm support _NET_WM_PID.

Hack to make workspace 1 active:  have the ManageHook invoked by spawnAndDo
set a flag (see XMonad.Util.ExtensibleState), one for iceweasel and another
for xterm, then check if both have been set and if so switch to workspace 1.
 Still not ideal if you have *other* windows starting up at the same time,
though.  Maybe X.U.Timer and switch to workspace 1 after a couple of seconds?

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brandon s. allbery     [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]      allbery at kf8nh.com
system administrator  [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]  allbery at ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university      KF8NH
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