[Xmonad] Issue 70 in xmonad: Extension request: Command to open a temporary window manager, or replace XMonad with a different one

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Issue 70: Extension request: Command to open a temporary window 
manager, or replace XMonad with a different one
http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=70

New issue report by gwern0:
RP again has some useful functions, tmpwm and newwm. Sometimes you just
don't want to use XMonad for whatever reason (perhaps you are waiting 
for a
fix to some problem involving oddball stuff like Windows programs under
WINE). Then it'd be good to have the option to temporarily or permanently
switch window manager. See
<http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/doc/Using-Other-Window-Managers.html#Using%20Other%20Window%20Managers>:

'tmpwm WM  	Command
Gives control over to another window manager and regains control once it
has terminated. WM is the path to the new window manager. This command is
useful when you want to temporarily take a look at another window manager,
or program under a different window manager, but you want to come back to
ratpoison when you've finished your investigation.

newwm window-manager 	Command'

This are pretty self-explanatory, and I suspect easy to write an extension
for. 'newwm' could probably just be a wrapper around exec, even.


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