Tony Zorman

I mostly thought I could rope you into a contribution :) I don't really need this, but I've opened https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/issues/764 to perhaps give this issue a little bit more visibility,...

closed by https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/pull/269

As discussed in https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/issues/591 it's probably worth opening a new issue to brainstorm hot-swappable backends for NSP, in case people are interested.

I will close this as a duplicate of https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/issues/174 then

We've merged xmonad/xmonad-contrib#791 now, but from a WM perspective it would be great if we didn't have to do this. @patrick96: Perhaps an `ignore-desktop-viewport` option could be added on the...

@solomon-b Well, this was a while ago :) Is this still something you're interested in tackling?

As geekosaur already said, pretty much all of contrib (and definitely the prompt) will have to be scrapped for Wayland anyways, so "future compatibility" is not super relevant here, I...

Any updates on this? FWIW, I've been using a variation of the code posted in the OP for quite a while now, and it never broke :)

It seems unwise to me to save the state across "real" exits. If something is really supposed to be _that_ persistent, it should probably not only live in extensible state....

> @LSLeary does this build with contrib? `X.U.DebugWindows` doesn't compile (https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/blob/df1fc2d33408e96a347da54dc86ca28cec44a308/XMonad/Util/DebugWindow.hs#L147) This is the only issue with contrib (see https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/pull/432#pullrequestreview-1231687675)