[xmonad] Floating Terminator moves 1px everytime

[Jakob Schöttl]

Oh, I did not know about XMonad.Util.NamedScratchpad. Nice Tip Brandon.

I use termite as drop-down terminal together with tdrop. That also 
works, like this:
https://plus.google.com/+JakobSchöttl/posts/7Yif4Z1zp2E

Jakob

Am 23.04.2016 um 22:04 schrieb Brandon Allbery:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Jeroen Budts <jeroen at budts.be 
> <mailto:jeroen at budts.be>> wrote:
>
>     I use Terminator as my terminal, but i have configured it so I can use
>     it 'quake-style': with xfwm4 it appears over my other windows when I
>     press <F12> and disappears when pressing <F12> again.
>
>     To simulate this same behavior in xmonad I configured Terminator to
>     always float. This works, but every time I hide and open the
>     Terminator
>     window again it moves 1 pixel to the right and bottom. Initially it is
>     to the left edge of the screen and just below the xfce-panel, but
>     after
>     using it a few times there is a 'gap' between the edge of the
>     screen and
>     terminator and between xfce-panel and terminator.
>     I have no idea what is causing this, any help would be much
>     appreciated :)
>
>
> There's several places where xmonad doesn't track the window border 
> properly with respect to the window (the border is actually *within* 
> the window and so enlarges it by borderWidth pixels on each side). 
> Worse, some of the places that do this unconditionally use the default 
> borderWidth, so you can't even configure just that window to have no 
> borders to work around it. I'm still tracking down all the places this 
> happens, but one known one is hard to fix (it's doing that default 
> borderWidth thing because nothing else has had a chance to run yet, 
> and you can't run it afterward because it has to set the default 
> position/size early for the ManageHook to work. Nasty chicken-and-egg 
> situation.)
>
> However, in this case you may want to use a better simulation of the 
> quake-like behavior instead: XMonad.Util.NamedScratchpad. I have a 
> couple of terminals and various other windows configured as 
> NamedScratchpad windows and they stay where they're put.
>
> -- 
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