[xmonad] doFullFloat keybinding?

[Audun Skaugen]

På Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:23:23 +0200, skrev 1126  
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> Hello List!
>
> I have a WS devoted to reading PDFs and alike and in my manageHook  
> config stands
> the following:
>
>                , className =? "Evince" --> doFullFloat
>
> This is, because I like my two xmobars (top and bottom) to disappear,  
> when
> reading a paper such things. But: When evince is FullFloating I got  
> problems
> when opening more than one instance of it, like a second paper. It just  
> lets the
> first one disappear under the freshly opened one.
>
> What I would like to have is a keybinding to switch FullFloating on and  
> off. Is
> this possible and if so, how? (By the way: another solution - maybe even  
> a
> better one - would be to tell xmonad that if I hit F11 (go fullscreen)  
> in evince,
> that this windows should be above the xmobars and should take the whole  
> screen.
> Like VLC does.)
>
> I couldn't find anything about it, I'm sorry for the noise if I just  
> sucked at
> Google-ing ;)

Why not skip floating the window, and use evince's existing fullscreen  
mechanism, which is already bound to F11?

Sadly, this won't work out of the box. But using the  
XMonad.Layout.Fullscreen module you can get it to work. Instructions are  
provided in the module documentation:
http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Layout-Fullscreen.html

The fullscreenFocus modifier is my choice. Note that if you put the  
fullscreen layout modifier before avoidStruts, the fullscreen window will  
cover xmobar, and if you put it after it won't.

Mail me if you need more help.

-- 
Mvh
Audun Skaugen