xmonad

I would like to have my programs spawn on the screen that was in focus when its keybinding was pressed not on the screen thats currently in focus when it finishes loading. Why: My current setup is Arch Linux + XMonad and I have it running on 6 monitors. I have been using XMonad for about a year now and my only issue with it is for programs that take a little while to open. For example the very first time I start chromium it takes 3 odd seconds to load. I press my key binding for chrome and then go to a different screen to do something else. But when chrome loads it loads on the screen im

My setup: Debian Linux 8.3 amd64, XMonad WM, python2.7, matplotlib 1.5.1 Problem: I'm making a plot, for example: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt x = xrange(10) y1 = [i ** 2 for i in x] y2 = [1.0 / (i + 1) for i in x] fig = plt.figure() ax1 = plt.subplot(1, 2, 1) ax1.plot(x, y1) ax2 = plt.subplot(1, 2, 2) ax2.plot(x, y2) plt.show() and since I'm using tiling window manager, the matplotlib's window gets stretched to a tile. Unfortunately this makes the graphs small and layout somewhat loose. If I want to "tighten" it a litte bit, clicking "Configure subplots->Tight Layout" does the job. But

Is it possible to somehow make the workspace layout change depending on which physical screen I am displaying it? I want to use reflectHoriz (from XMonad.Layout.PerWorkspace) on layouts on my left monitor so that the master pane is always closest to the center of 2 screens. I tried XMonad.Layout.IndependentScreens but that just creates double monitor dependant workspaces and that's not what I'm aiming at. Ideally, I want the same workspace to have different layout set depending on the monitor on which it is displayed. I think it should be possible to make a Layout wrapper (like Mirror or

I'm trying to build xmonad in Mountain Lion to run with Xquartz 2.7.2, tutorial found here . I'm using cabal to get required X11 libraries cabal install X11-1.5.0.1 . That didn't work, so I got the tar and tried building it with ghc, same error. It won't configure: Resolving dependencies... Configuring X11-1.5.0.1... configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-compiler, --with-gcc checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.outchecking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no