Comments on: Xmonad and the Gimp

By: Bruno

Bruno — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:09:36 +0000

Can anybody come with the final merge between the Gimp setup and the basic gnomeConfig?

I only have this:

import XMonad
import XMonad.Config.Gnome

main = xmonad gnomeConfig

What I want is to have gimp loaded on my last workspace (9)

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:32:12 +0000

Thanks, this was really useful. I am using gnomeConfig so I had to add desktopLayoutModifiers $ to the layouthook line just after the = so that the panels aren't covered (import XMonad.Config.Desktop is also needed).

By: yac

yac — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:13:20 +0000

IM layout worked fine, but one day it mysteriously started doing what you describe. Try combineTwoP combinator. I use:

combineTwoP (TwoPane 0.03 0.15) (myTabs) (reflectHoriz $ combineTwoP (TwoPane 0.03 0.2) myTabs (myTabs ||| Grid) (Role "gimp-dock")) (Role "gimp-toolbox")

By: Eric Kow

Eric Kow — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:49:59 +0000

Whoops! In case anybody's windows got reversed by this, adding a second reflectHoriz should do the trick.

Now I have:

myLayout = withIM (0.11) (Role "gimp-toolbox") $ reflectHoriz

$ withIM (0.15) (Role "gimp-dock") $ reflectHoriz

$ layoutHook defaultConfig

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:49:07 +0000

Thanks for the comments and tips, guys. Xmonad is indeed excellent. I've had to work on windows boxes more often lately and I sure miss it.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:21:19 +0000

Very cool post and comments.

The above highlights one of the core strengths of xmonad. You can really mold it and adapt it to your workflow and needs. Yes it might get tricky in the configuration sometimes but there are very few things you can't do.

On the other hand the basic defaults are a joy to use. As I said many times, things become effortless. I'll definitely use all this for gimp as well, coool!!

Now here's why since I also use a Mac, I am working on a tiling window manager for OSX based on enso (http://code.google.com/p/enso/) which I aptly named, effortless.

Nick

By: Eric Kow

Eric Kow — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:00:34 +0000

Here's a small variant with thanks to aavogt on #xmonad.

The goal was to avoid committing myself to dedicated "gimp" workspace — I don't just gimp *that* often — but also to avoid a lot of fancy hackery as I didn't understand the DynamicWorkspaces stuff.

Solution: omit the (onWorkspace "gimp") and change Full to (layoutConfig defaultConfig). This means that all non-gimp windows continue behaving normally, but wherever I launch gimp, I get the nice toolboxes.

By: JamesD

JamesD — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:52:24 +0000

Thanks for the useful info. It’s so interesting

By: Tobi

Tobi — Sun, 17 May 2009 10:08:56 +0000

Is it possible to set the width of the tools to something like "detect automatically" so that it could be used on any screen sizes?

By: Weeble

Weeble — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:10:09 +0000

I tried this, but I have problems any time there are multiple image windows. When I move the mouse cursor between windows the first image pops in front of whichever one is currently showing. Is there some way to prevent this?