[xmonad] Float dialogs over their parent windows?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Jeff Johnson <jefdaj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to make floating dialogs appear centered over their
> "parent" window? Or failing that, just above the currently focused
> one? It's kind of jarring when you open a dialog and it shows up
> somewhere else on screen, or even in another workspace.
>

There are extensions which try to do this (see for example "transients" in
XMonad.ManageHelpers), but xmonad's lack of proper float support means it's
fragile at best.  :(

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