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Magicloud Magiclouds

5 Mar 2009 5 Mar '09

2:40 a.m.

Hi, I am using gtk2hs to make some sidebar thing for xmonad. Well, after I tried a few ways, I still cannot make it dock like xmobar. It just covered other windows at the edge of the screen. Could someone give me a sample or something I could learn from? Thanks. -- 竹密岂妨流水过山高哪阻野云飞

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Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH

5 Mar 5 Mar

3:59 a.m.

On 2009 Mar 4, at 21:40, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:

I am using gtk2hs to make some sidebar thing for xmonad. Well, after I tried a few ways, I still cannot make it dock like xmobar. It just covered other windows at the edge of the screen. Could someone give me a sample or something I could learn from? Thanks.

You need to go to freedesktop.org and read up on the Extended Window Manager Hints. In this particular case the extension you need is the _NET_WM_STRUT property. (xmobar is open source, you could look through its source) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH

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Magicloud Magiclouds

6:06 a.m.

Since I am using gtk, I set Gdk::Window::TYPE_HINT_DOCK as its document says. But it does not work. And as I looked into xmobar's source, there seems no special code for xmonad. And my xmonad.hs is very simple, too. So I wonder how to make it work.... On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

On 2009 Mar 4, at 21:40, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:

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I am using gtk2hs to make some sidebar thing for xmonad. Well, after I tried a few ways, I still cannot make it dock like xmobar. It just covered other windows at the edge of the screen. Could someone give me a sample or something I could learn from? Thanks.

You need to go to freedesktop.org and read up on the Extended Window Manager Hints. In this particular case the extension you need is the _NET_WM_STRUT property.

(xmobar is open source, you could look through its source)

-- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH

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Magicloud Magiclouds

6:45 a.m.

I am confused. Code like this works in other WM, except xmonad. #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { GtkWidget *panel; gtk_init(&argc, &argv); panel = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL); gtk_window_set_type_hint(GTK_WINDOW(panel), GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_DOCK); gtk_widget_show(panel); gtk_main(); return 0; } And here is my xmonad.hs, which you can see, no "special dock configuration" for xmobar.... import XMonad import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks import XMonad.Util.Run(spawnPipe) import XMonad.Util.EZConfig(additionalKeys) import qualified System.IO.UTF8 main = do xmproc <- spawnPipe "xmobar ~/.xmonad/xmobar.config" xmonad $ defaultConfig { terminal = "~/bin/mTerm", borderWidth = 3, normalBorderColor = "#0000ff", focusedBorderColor = "#00ff00", layoutHook = avoidStruts $ layoutHook defaultConfig, logHook = dynamicLogWithPP $ xmobarPP { ppOutput = System.IO.UTF8.hPutStrLn xmproc, ppTitle = xmobarColor "green" "" }, modMask = mod4Mask } `additionalKeys` [ ((mod4Mask, xK_z), spawn "slock") , ((0, xK_Print), spawn "scrot") ] On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:

Since I am using gtk, I set Gdk::Window::TYPE_HINT_DOCK as its document says. But it does not work. And as I looked into xmobar's source, there seems no special code for xmonad. And my xmonad.hs is very simple, too. So I wonder how to make it work....

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

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On 2009 Mar 4, at 21:40, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:

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I am using gtk2hs to make some sidebar thing for xmonad. Well, after I tried a few ways, I still cannot make it dock like xmobar. It just covered other windows at the edge of the screen. Could someone give me a sample or something I could learn from? Thanks.

You need to go to freedesktop.org and read up on the Extended Window Manager Hints. In this particular case the extension you need is the _NET_WM_STRUT property.

(xmobar is open source, you could look through its source)

-- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH

-- 竹密岂妨流水过山高哪阻野云飞

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Khudyakov Alexey

11:42 a.m.

On Thursday 05 March 2009 09:45:51 Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:

I am confused. Code like this works in other WM, except xmonad.

You code does not set _NET_WM_STRUT property. And because of that xmonad doesn't treat it specifically. You can inspect you window properties using `xprop' utility.

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Magicloud Magiclouds

9 Mar 9 Mar

3:45 a.m.

Here is my window, seems right... but cannot get a gap.... WM_HINTS(WM_HINTS): Client accepts input or input focus: True Initial state is Normal State. window id # of group leader: 0x1800001 _NET_WM_SYNC_REQUEST_COUNTER(CARDINAL) = 25165829 _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK _NET_WM_USER_TIME_WINDOW(WINDOW): window id # 0x1800004 WM_CLIENT_LEADER(WINDOW): window id # 0x1800001 _NET_WM_PID(CARDINAL) = 16671 WM_LOCALE_NAME(STRING) = "zh_CN.UTF-8" WM_CLIENT_MACHINE(STRING) = "shidaw.desktop.amazon.com" WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS): program specified minimum size: 162 by 54 window gravity: NorthWest WM_PROTOCOLS(ATOM): protocols WM_DELETE_WINDOW, WM_TAKE_FOCUS, _NET_WM_PING, _NET_WM_SYNC_REQUEST WM_CLASS(STRING) = "sideBar.rb", "SideBar.rb" WM_ICON_NAME(STRING) = "sideBar.rb" _NET_WM_ICON_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = 0x73, 0x69, 0x64, 0x65, 0x42, 0x61, 0x72, 0x2e, 0x72, 0x62 WM_NAME(STRING) = "sideBar.rb" _NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = 0x73, 0x69, 0x64, 0x65, 0x42, 0x61, 0x72, 0x2e, 0x72, 0x62 On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Khudyakov Alexey wrote:

On Thursday 05 March 2009 09:45:51 Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:

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I am confused. Code like this works in other WM, except xmonad.

You code does not set _NET_WM_STRUT property. And because of that xmonad doesn't treat it specifically. You can inspect you window properties using `xprop' utility.

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Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH

6:29 a.m.

On 2009 Mar 8, at 23:45, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:

Here is my window, seems right... but cannot get a gap....

Once again: where's the _NET_WM_STRUT? I've looked through your properties, but none of them is _NET_WM_STRUT. Non-tiling window managers may dock the window in a default fashion because of _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE, but xmonad needs to know how much space to reserve for it.

WM_HINTS(WM_HINTS): Client accepts input or input focus: True Initial state is Normal State. window id # of group leader: 0x1800001 _NET_WM_SYNC_REQUEST_COUNTER(CARDINAL) = 25165829 _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK _NET_WM_USER_TIME_WINDOW(WINDOW): window id # 0x1800004 WM_CLIENT_LEADER(WINDOW): window id # 0x1800001 _NET_WM_PID(CARDINAL) = 16671 WM_LOCALE_NAME(STRING) = "zh_CN.UTF-8" WM_CLIENT_MACHINE(STRING) = "shidaw.desktop.amazon.com" WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS): program specified minimum size: 162 by 54 window gravity: NorthWest WM_PROTOCOLS(ATOM): protocols WM_DELETE_WINDOW, WM_TAKE_FOCUS, _NET_WM_PING, _NET_WM_SYNC_REQUEST WM_CLASS(STRING) = "sideBar.rb", "SideBar.rb" WM_ICON_NAME(STRING) = "sideBar.rb" _NET_WM_ICON_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = 0x73, 0x69, 0x64, 0x65, 0x42, 0x61, 0x72, 0x2e, 0x72, 0x62 WM_NAME(STRING) = "sideBar.rb" _NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = 0x73, 0x69, 0x64, 0x65, 0x42, 0x61, 0x72, 0x2e, 0x72, 0x62

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Andrea Rossato

5 Mar 5 Mar

1:21 p.m.

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:59:53PM -0500, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

On 2009 Mar 4, at 21:40, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:

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Could someone give me a sample or something I could learn from? Thanks.

(xmobar is open source, you could look through its source)

xmobar is not open source. xmobar is FREE software! here's the relevant bits (from Xmobar.hs) setProperties :: Rectangle -> Config -> Display -> Window -> [Rectangle] -> IO () setProperties r c d w srs = do a1 <- internAtom d "_NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL" False c1 <- internAtom d "CARDINAL" False a2 <- internAtom d "_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE" False c2 <- internAtom d "ATOM" False v <- internAtom d "_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK" False changeProperty32 d w a1 c1 propModeReplace $ map fi $ getStrutValues r (position c) (getRootWindowHeight srs) changeProperty32 d w a2 c2 propModeReplace [fromIntegral v] hope this helps. Best, Andrea

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Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH

5:50 p.m.

On 2009 Mar 5, at 8:21, Andrea Rossato wrote:

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:59:53PM -0500, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

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On 2009 Mar 4, at 21:40, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:

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Could someone give me a sample or something I could learn from? Thanks.

(xmobar is open source, you could look through its source)

xmobar is not open source. xmobar is FREE software!

I don't do fundamentalist religion... -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH

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Andrea Rossato

7:46 p.m.

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:50:20PM -0500, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

On 2009 Mar 5, at 8:21, Andrea Rossato wrote:

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xmobar is not open source. xmobar is FREE software!

I don't do fundamentalist religion...

qualifying as fundamentalism the avoidance of cheap marketing strategies is just a ... cheap marketing strategy. cheers, andrea

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