;; sticky-head.jl by Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
;; Time-stamp: <00/11/25 01:59:19 aaronl>
;; The author retains copyright of this file but you are free to distribute,
;; modify, and use it as you please.

;; This is a very simple hack that is quite useful to me. I make
;; extensive use of virtual desktops, putting full screen windows on
;; most virtual desktops. This worked great until I got Xinerama. With
;; Xinerama, switching virtual desktops would switch what was on both
;; monitors! Since I like having things side-by-side, it's important
;; that the reference manual I'm looking at on the second head doesn't
;; get moved off the screen when I switch to the virtual desktop with
;; my emacs session on head 1. A very luxurious solution to this
;; problem would be to have Xinerama-aware virtual desktops, so that
;; there are different desktops for each head and you only have to
;; switch the desktop that one head displays at a time. This would be
;; difficult to implement. As you can see from the two lines of code
;; below, what I did end up doing was pretty easy. It involved making
;; virtual desktops only affect the first head by making all windows
;; on the second head "sticky". It's not as good as having seperate
;; virutal desktops for each head, but it sure makes Xinerama much
;; more bearable!

;; You will probably need to modify it if you use a configuration
;; other than a simple two-head configuration with head one being
;; left of head two.

(defun analyze (window) (if (>= (car (window-position window)) (car (head-offset 1))) (make-window-sticky window) (make-window-unsticky window)))
(mapc (lambda (hook) (add-hook hook analyze)) '(after-move-hook add-window-hook place-window-hook after-initialization-hook))