[xmonad] Accessing minimized windows in Xmonad.Layout.Minimize

[Raghavendra D Prabhu]

Hi Adam,


* On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 06:15:28PM -0500, adam vogt <vogt.adam at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Raghavendra D Prabhu
><raghu.prabhu13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using Xmonad.Layout.Minimize with BoringWindows. When I minimize more
>> windows, I would like to access them out of order than do one by one through
>> RestoreNextMinimizedWin or restore from taskbar (I don't have taskbar,
>> trayer + xmobar). Is there a way to hook it into Xmonad.Prompt or
>> XMonad.Actions.WindowBringer etc.?  It will also be helpful since if I
>> forget which windows have been minimized.
>
>Hi Raghavendra
>
>To be able to restore and then bring, the function might look like:
>
>bringRestored :: Window -> X ()
>bringRestored w =do
>    broadcastMessage (RestoreMinimizedWin w)
>    windows (bringWindow w) -- or something else like
>XMonad.StackSet.focusWindow
>
>Then you could to hook up XMonad.Prompt doing something similar to
>http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/src/XMonad-Prompt-Window.html#windowPromptBring
>to supply that Window argument. Using XMonad.Util.Dmenu is shorter but
>might be broken depending on how your dmenu version matches up with
>your contrib version. In any case you should get the idea of how it
>can be done.
>
>bringRestoredWindow = do
>  wm <- windowMap
>  w <- dmenu (M.keys wm)
>  whenJust (M.lookup w wm) bringRestored
>
>
>--
>Adam
>
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Thanks, it works. I had looked at 
http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/src/XMonad-Prompt-Window.html 
earlier but couldn't do the necessary plumbing between the 
functions; however, using X.U.Dmenu for now.



Regards,
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