[xmonad] More possibilities for border width customization

Bogdan Sinitsyn bogdan.sinitsyn at gmail.com
Sun Jan 3 20:21:29 UTC 2016


On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 4:19:38 PM MSK you wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This seems to me like it would be a rather invasive breaking change
> > (changing the type of a field in the main xmonad config record).
> > Personally I do not think it would be worth it.  However if someone makes
> > a
> > patch, along with a reasoned justification, it will certainly be
> > considered.
> Not everything belongs in core. What I usually suggest in IRC is:
> 
>    setBorder bw = ask >>= \w -> liftX (withDisplay $ \d -> io $
> setWindowBorderWidth d w bw) >> idHook
> 
> and then apply it to windows in the ManageHook.
> An argument could possibly be made for that function going into the core...
> but probably should start out in contrib.

This doesn't help, just like hack with layoutHook similar to X.L.NoBorders
Adding something like this to handleEventHook is not so useless, but it shows 
original borders for some time, so, I think, that's not a solution. 

-- 
Bogdan Sinitsyn


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