[xmonad] Re: Floating gnome-do
Braden.Shepherdson at gmail.com
Tue Jul 8 11:21:01 EDT 2008
Tom Thorne wrote:
> I've been trying to get a floating gnome-do without much success, I've
> never programmed haskell before so i'm just cutting and pasting other
> peoples xmonad.hs together!
> this is what my xmonad.hs looks like (I don't have a haskell mode for
> emacs either hence the no doubt hideous indentation)
> import XMonad
> import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks
> import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog
> main = dzen $ \x -> xmonad $x
> terminal = "terminal"
> , focusedBorderColor = "blue"
> , manageHook = myMHook <+> manageHook defaultConfig
> , layoutHook = avoidStruts $ layoutHook defaultConfig
> myMHook = composeAll . concat $
> [resource =? "Do.exe" --> doIgnore,
> title =? "Downloads" --> doFloat
> Obviously this doesnt work
I don't have Gnome so I can't just check it, but here's how you find the
names used for a ManageHook. Run the app you want to check, then run
xprop in a terminal. Click on the app's window, and then examine the
output from xprop. About ten lines up the bottom will be a line like this:
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "gecko", "Thunderbird-bin"
The first field, "gecko", is the resource name, the second is the class
name. So I could write a ManageHook for Thunderbird like this:
resource =? "gecko" --> doFloat
or like this
class =? "Thunderbird-bin" --> doFloat
Class names are usually better than resource names, as they tend to be
unique more often.
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