[xmonad] doShift vs mplayer
wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu
wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu
Mon Mar 14 02:06:30 CET 2011
Well, I can't help craft a solution, but I can explain what is
(probably) going on. If you shift a window to an invisible workspace
in the manage hook, xmonad won't even bother mapping the window -- and
mplayer is likely waiting until the window is mapped before playing
the movie.
~d
Quoting Nathaniel Filardo <nwfilardo at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I wasn't able to find a solution to this, though it's possible I
> missed some previous discussion. If my manageHook contains "title =?
> "MPlayer" --> doShift wkM" then, as expected, MPlayer's windows get
> sent to wkM. However, unless wkM is currently on screen, mplayer does
> not begin playing. If I bring wkM on screen, it starts, and when I
> bring something else onscreen instead, mplayer continues to play.
> FWIW, This is a pretty stock Debian testing machine.
>
> Suggestions? Thanks in advance.
> --nwf;
>
> _______________________________________________
> xmonad mailing list
> xmonad at haskell.org
> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/xmonad
>
>
More information about the xmonad
mailing list