Re: just-the-text Emacs frame

[chad <yandros@MIT.EDU>]

On Jun 10, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> I did.  They claim it's necessary because other panels have a heart
> attack when they get the keyboard input focus.  So the solution is to
> configure it at the user level, since they can't match dock rules to
> Emacs frames in general (I've asked for more help but it doesn't seem to
> be a priority to the XMonad developers, and I don't know Haskell enough
> to do this myself).
> 
> So unless I get further help, I'll just document that XMonad is not
> perfect for Emacs docked strut frames and I'll provide mouse bindings to
> most of the things in such frames, including a binding to pop their
> buffer up in a normal frame.

It ought to be possible to cover this in the configurations; for years, my 
window managers thought that I ran programs named (from X's pov) 
RightEmacs, LeftEmacs, and MiniBuffer.

I don't currently have a good way to test XMonad, and won't for a couple 
weeks at least.  If it helps, you could try to figure out what configuration 
awesome and metacity have that XMonad does not, probably with some 
judicious use of xprop.

Hope that helps,
*Chad