[xmonad] Window gets pulled into another workspace

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Raghavendra D Prabhu <
raghu.prabhu13 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have seen it mostly with firefox (don't remember with others) and any
> other type of window.
>

If it's Firefox windows and not terminal windows that switch workspaces on
you, it is Firefox sending EWMH messages to steal focus, which can have the
side effect of the window moving to the workspace that has the focus.
 Changing this requires disabling EwmhDesktops, or modifying it (there is
no control for it, sadly) to disable the focus message — or inserting an
earlier handleEventHook to detect and ignore the message without passing it
on ("return (All False)"), which requires switching from the "ewmh"
combinator to inlining it to your config, or writing a combinator of your
own that you can stick in front of "ewmh" to override its handleEventHook.

Additionally, note that windows normally open on the current workspace; X11
isn't smart enough to do otherwise. There's something in ManageHelpers that
can attempt to relocate popup windows to the workspaces of their parents:
http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Hooks-ManageHelpers.html#v:transience-39-(the
trailing dash is part of the URL).

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