[xmonad] Is there a way to reparent a window manually?

[Platon Pronko]

Hi!

Thanks for a suggestion. Indeed I'm quite happy with my setup at the moment, but I will keep this alternative approach in mind.

Best regards,
Platon Pronko

On 2021-07-26 08:22, Zev Weiss wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 11:58:38AM CDT, Platon Pronko wrote:
>> Hi!
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>> I checked with xprop, and I don't have _NET_WORKAREA set on my windows, so I do need to set it somehow. My situation is a bit complicated by having two monitors of different resolution arranged in a somewhat complex geometry:
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>> xrandr --output HDMI-0 --auto --output HDMI-1 --auto --pos 2560x1440
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>> (two outputs, one on the top-left, second down and to the right from it, with only corners connecting - this way the mouse does not jump to different screen by mistake)
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> 
> This is completely tangential and off-topic, and you may be entirely happy with your setup (which is fine if so), but if you're interested in trying out an alternative solution to the problem of the mouse pointer unwantedly jumping between displays, I might suggest this thing I wrote and have been using myself for a while: https://github.com/zevweiss/xdpb
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> Zev
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