[xmonad] Is this a bug in ManageHook? (Spaces in composeAll)

wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu
Wed Sep 23 13:09:31 EDT 2009


Quoting Christian Walther <cptsalek at gmail.com>:

> that some xprops changed, and I edited myManageHook to contain:
>
> myManageHook = composeAll
>     [ title     =? "Buddy List"            --> doF (W.shift "9")
>     , className =? "Gran Paradiso"         --> doF (W.shift "8") ]
>
> This has some interesting side effect, because every time I start
> either Firefox or Pidgin and their window appear on workspace 8 or 9,
> the window that has the focus is sent to exactly the same workspace,
> too.

What extensions are you using?  What does your actual "manageHook =  
..." line look like?  This sounds like some unfortunate interaction  
between extensions, and may need a complete copy of the configuration  
file to diagnose...
~d


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