[xmonad] Re: moving windows with mouse and named workspaces

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

The answer to the second issues was already in the docs in my machine:

XMonad.Actions.DynamicWorkspaces


does exactly what I was looking for. Apologies for asking before
searching enough.

Best,


R.


On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte<rdiaz02 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am new to Xmonad, coming to it from other tiling wm (wmii for the
> last year or so, ion before that). I am very much enjoying it (the
> feel, the intuitiveness, the great docs, the large number of extra
> available stuff, etc), but I have two questions:
>
> 1. Is it possible to move (and resize) windows with the mouse? This is
> immediate in wmii (and also doable in awesome). I have found some info
> in the mailing list, but I am not still fully clear about how to do
> it.
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.xmonad/4491/match=mouse+resize
>
>
>
> 2. A feature I miss a lot from wmii is the creation of workspaces "on
> the fly", with whatever name I care to use. Then, I can move to that
> workspace by name. When I am done there (i.e., it gets emptied) it
> disappears automagically.  (To be more clear, this is an example of
> usage: say Mary comes for help on some analysis; I create a new
> workspace called "Mary", and there I fire up xterm, emacs, whatever.
> That remains open maybe for days, until done. In the meantime, Fred
> might come along with another different request;  I creat a workspace
> for Fred. And, of course, I've kept open for the last months the
> workspace named "web", etc, etc. It is easer for me to move around by
> "name" than remembering where I left the emacs session with Mary's
> analysis).
>
> If searched and found a few hits, but again I do not see how to actually do it:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.xmonad/2727/match=name+workspaces
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.xmonad/883/match=name+workspaces
>
>
> Thanks for such a nice piece of work.
>
> Best,
>
> R.
>
>
> --
> Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
> Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme
> Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO)
> http://ligarto.org/rdiaz
> Phone: +34-91-732-8000 ext. 3019
>



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Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme
Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO)
http://ligarto.org/rdiaz
Phone: +34-91-732-8000 ext. 3019