[xmonad] Visual hints for XMonad actions

[Mario Pastorelli]

Wow, one of the fastest and most accurate answer I have ever had. Thank 
you Brandon! I'll read the docs and eventually the code of 
XMonad.Layout.ShowWName.

On 12/15/2012 12:39 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Mario Pastorelli 
> <pastorelli.mario at gmail.com <mailto:pastorelli.mario at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     workspace to the previous workspace, then a left arrow appears in
>     the centre of the screen. Those hints are very similar to what
>     happen on other WMs and personally very useful. With this idea in
>     mind I started to think about requirements: they should be always
>     visible (on top of the stack) such that the user can see them but
>     they should be not-intrusive so that they don't disturb the work
>     of the user. They should be removed automatically after sometime.
>     One last thing, I would like to stick to the XMonad color
>     configuration.
>
>
> The place-and-remove stuff you can crib from XMonad.Layout.ShowWName. 
>  What you would place is a shaped override-redirect window (you may 
> need to find X11 Shape extension bindings; I think these already exist 
> somewhere but may not be in the Haskell X11 package) so that *only* 
> the arrow will be drawn; ideally it would also have an alpha channel 
> so it can be translucent, but that will only work if the user is also 
> running a compositing manager.
>
>     2) how to put the window on top of the stack such that it is
>     always visible. For now, for some reason the arrow is 
>
>
> You want an override-redirect window, not a window that goes into the 
> stack.  Since you're already using mkUnmanagedWindow, this should 
> already be true; you may also want to explicitly raiseWindow it to put 
> it on top, and possibly something in the logHook to re-raise it as needed.
>
>     3) how to ignore the input such that it pass trough the created window
>
>
> Set a zero event mask and do-not-propagate mask, so the events are 
> passed on.
>
>     5) an open question: is there any way to use composite such that
>     the windows can be transparent? I don't think 
>
>
> You must run a separate compositing manager for this.  compton is the 
> one that seems to work best for most people.  That said, just using a 
> shaped window constrained to the arrow might be good enough.
>
> Note that you won't be able to reproduce Compiz's behavior perfectly, 
> because it relies on OpenGL and there don't seem to be any decent 
> standalone OpenGL compositing managers.
>
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