[xmonad] Unreliable focus actions in Floating layout

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:21 AM, David Unric <dunric29a at gmail.com> wrote:

> another PITA of floating windows handling in Xmonad:
>

I will be charitable and call xmonad's floating layer support a hack.  And
I think this is the oldest open bug in the bug tracker.  :(  There is a
module that tries to make things saner
(XMonad.Layout.TrackFloating<http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Layout-TrackFloating.html>)
but it has some issues.

Unfortunately, this issue more or less demonstrates that the StackSet
zipper at the heart of xmonad isn't quite good enough.  (And things get
worse if you try to add support for other EWMH layers.)

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