[xmonad] insertPosition and transient floating windows

[adam vogt]

Hi Peter,

It looks like composeOne picks the first action that matches. So I think
you'll get what you describe from:

    composeOne
      [ isFloating -?> doCenterFloat

      , pure True  -?> insertPosition Below Newer
      ]


You've given me an idea for a new contrib module: specifying which window
gets focus after the last one closes should be done in contrib... sort of
the opposite of InsertPosition. I think doing that reliably involves a
handleEventHook. I think the event to watch would be ones with the
DestroyWindowEvent constructor and nothing relevant turns up when I grep
contrib, so it probably hasn't been written yet.

Regards,

Adam

On Nov 4, 2015 12:16 PM, "Peter Jones" <mlists at pmade.com> wrote:

> I love that insertPosition can keep new windows from going into the
> master area, but there's one small annoyance w.r.t. transient floating
> windows.
>
> I'm using `insertPosition Below Newer` with `composeOne`.  When a
> password dialog appears, and the master window previously had the focus,
> the dialog gets focused and is put in the center of the screen.  That
> part is perfect.
>
> The problem comes when I dismiss the dialog.  At that point I would
> expect the master window to regain focus, but one of the slave windows
> does instead.  Of course, removing `insertPosition` fixes my issue.
>
> This is what I have in my configuration in an attempt to avoid this
> issue:
>
>     composeOne
>       [ pure True  -?> insertPosition Below Newer
>       , isFloating -?> doCenterFloat
>       ]
>
> `isFloating` comes from XMonad.Hooks.FadeWindows and I have it in there
> hoping to *not* apply `insertPosition` when the current window is
> already floating.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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