Tech Life of Recht

Gnome Do in XMonad

December 2nd, 2009
10:15 pm

I recently started using Gnome Do as a launcher in xmonad - not to replace the good old XMonad.Prompt, but because it integrates quite nicely into some other OS features. For example, suspending is a matter of pressing Ctrl-Alt-space and entering susp. There are a lot of other nice features like that. I still use the regular XMonad.Prompt to start programs, as it works just fine for that.

To use Gnome Do with xmonad, I changed two things: I made sure that the Gnome Do window is ignored by xmonad, and I bound the popup key to Ctrl-Alt-space instead of the default mod4-space, which I use to switch layouts in xmonad.

Ignoring the window is simply a matter of adding a condition to the manageHook:

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CODE:

main = do din <- spawnPipe statusBarCmd
xmonad $ defaultConfig
{
manageHook = composeAll . concat $ [
[ className =? "Do" --> doIgnore ]
]
}

To assign a new shortcut for the popup, simply press mod4-space to bring it up, and then click on the small arrow in the top right corner. Under Preferences->Keyboard, a new shortcut can be assigned.