On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Tycho Andersen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Juan, > > [Apologies for the delay, I have been traveling.] > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:07:08AM -0500, Juan Diego Tascón wrote: >> >> Well I'm not sure about what would be the best way to implemented this >> but config wise it would be nice to have a "show on every >> group/desktop/workspace" property that could be changed inside hooks >> or via key press, actually several stacking wm like openbox, blackbox >> and kwin have this option in the window header along with maximize, >> minimize, close, etc, not sure if this also applies to tiling wm >> though. > > Yeah, I agree it would be useful. I'm not sure struts is the right > way, though (in fact I don't think you need any X stuff at all, > really, just the WM to have a global special case). > >> Another point that I thought just now is that I might be approaching >> it in the wrong way, yakuake actually works fine when floating, the >> only problem is if I open it in a group then switch to another group >> then if I press the yakuake key to open/retract it won't work I have >> to go to the group where I opened it, retract it, go back to the other >> group and open it again. I have tried running "qdbus-qt4 >> org.kde.yakuake /yakuake/window toggleWindowState" but if I'm on a >> different group it won't respond. Is it maybe a bug in yakuake? or >> simply groups in qtile are completely different to workspaces in kde? > > Yes, the latter. Basically, windows shouldn't move groups without you > telling them, but you're more than welcome to tell them to move > programmatically with you as you switch groups. The easiest way to > hack it without changes to upstream is to use the hook as I described > earlier in the thread. > > That said, I would be happy to merge a patch that implemented the > above special case. > > \t > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "qtile-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Hi Tycho, thank you very much for your help on this issue, yes please do merge that patch, let me know when you had and I'll be happy to test it. Cheers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qtile-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
