November 2007 - xmonad

newbie questions
by Konstantin Sobolev 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

Hi I'm looking for an Ion3 replacement, and from this list archives I understand that I'm not the only one refugee :) Xmonad is #1 candidate for several reasons, implementation language being one of them -- I'm trying to learn Haskell when I have some free time. But it is one of the biggest complexities as well because I have several custom Ion scripts which I'm very used to and which I'd like to port to the new WM, but my Haskell knowledge isn't sufficient at the moment. First of them intercepts XF86ScrollUp/XF86ScrollDown keys and changes XKB layouts (en/ru). It also remembers current layout for every window and switches them when focus changes, and also shows current layout name in the status bar. It requires small C part to change the layout, but standard setxkbmap can also be used. Another one is a port of gimme.jl from Sawfish: it lets you configure bindings to bring focus to specific windows or start a program if it doesn't exist. For example when I press Mod-K it searches for a window with role='konsole-mainwindow#1' and brings focus to it, or starts a new konsole if such window cannot be found. The last one is a bit more complex and combines the previous script with named scratchpads. It's easier to illustrate it with an example: when I press Mod-S for the first time, a new floating window appears and stardict is launched inside; of course it gets the focus. Consequent Mod-S keypresses toggle this window's visibility, keeping stardict running, i.e. no new instance is created if one is already running. This is very convenient, for instance I have such binding which opens 'gvim ~/notes.txt' when I press 'my favories' button, and so I always have a scratchpad by my hand. So, my question is: is it possible for somebody who's just in the middle of reading yaht.pdf to implement such things, or it's too complex and migration should be postponed for now? Thanks -- /KoS

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-- Announce: xmobar-0.8 released!
by Andrea Rossato 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

Hello! I'm very glad to announce the release of Xmobar-0.8. You can grab the source code from Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmobar-0.8 Xmobar is a minimalistic, text based, status bar. It was specifically designed to work with the XMonad Window Manager. Inspired by the Ion3 status bar, it supports similar features, like dynamic color management, output templates, and extensibility through plugins. A precompiled binary is available here: http://code.haskell.org/~arossato/xmobar/xmobar-0.8.bin A recent screen shot can be found here: http://code.haskell.org/~arossato/xmobar/xmobar-0.8.png A screen shot of xmonad and xmobar (my desktop): http://haskell.org/sitewiki/images/a/ae/Arossato-config.png Xmobar depends on X11-1.3.0 and Cabal-1.2 but works both with ghc-6.6.x and ghc-6.8.1. Here you can find a version of the 0.8 source tree that works with Cabal-1.1.x, but will *not* compile with ghc-6.8.1: http://code.haskell.org/~arossato/xmobar/xmobar-0.8-Cabal-1.1-ghc-6.6.tar.gz Some basic documentation is available at the following address: http://code.haskell.org/~arossato/xmobar/ I would like to thank Robert Manea and Spencer Janssen for their help in understanding X and Xlibs. Thanks to Claus Reinke for making me understand existential types (or at least for letting me think I grasp them ;). Xmobar incorporates patches from: Krzysztof Kosciuszkiewicz, Spencer Janssen, Jens Petersen, Dmitry Kurochkin, and Lennart Kolmodin. Hope you will enjoy! Andrea Rossato What's new ========== There are a lot of changes since the last release: a. Configuration: - removed xPos, yPos, width, height, align, and refresh configuration options; - added position and alignSep configuration options: the first is used to set the position (Top, Bottom or Static; the second to set the characters to be used to separate, in the output template, text that must be aligned to the left, centered, or aligned to the right; (please have look at xmobar.config-sample and the README for more details) b. Plugins: - added a plugin to read Unix named pipe (useful to display XMonad logs); - added a plugin to read from standard input; - a new plugin API makes it possible to write plugins that perform asynchronous actions. The new API is totally backward compatible; c. Output template: - it is now possible to align text in the output template. By default text before a '}' will be align to left, the text in between '}' and '{' will be centered, and the text after a '{' will be align to the right, like: "left } centered { right" - strings can have also a background color set: "<fc=red,white>%date%<fc>" will display the output of the "date" command in red with a white background. d. Concurrency: now Xmobar uses Software Transactional Memory and the main window is updated only when needed e. Documentation: I now use Pandoc for the README, this way I have also created an HTML version of. I hope that makes the documentation a bit more accessible: http://code.haskell.org/~arossato/xmobar/ f. The darcs repository has been moved to: http://code.haskell.org/xmobar g. XRandR: since positioning is now done automatically, XRandR should be supported too, even thought support could be buggy due to the fact that I cannot actually test it, since I don't have capable hardware. h. Cabal-1.2 and ghc-6.8.1 support. i. Many other small changes and code cleanup: darcs changes will tell you everything. Configuration Example ===================== This is my ~/.xmobarrc: Config { font = "-bitstream-charter-*-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-56-*-*" , bgColor = "black" , fgColor = "grey" , position = Top , commands = [ Run Weather "LIPB" ["-L","18","-H","27","--normal","green","--high","red","--low","lightblue"] 36000 , Run Network "eth1" ["-L","0","-H","32","--normal","green","--high","red"] 10 , Run Cpu ["-L","3","-H","50","--normal","green","--high","red"] 10 , Run Memory ["-t","Mem: <usedratio>%"] 10 , Run Battery ["-L","50","-H","75","--high","green","--normal","yellow", "--low", "red"] 10 , Run Swap [] 10 , Run Com "uname" ["-s","-r"] "" 36000 , Run Date "%a %b %_d %Y * %H:%M:%S" "mydate" 10 , Run PipeReader "/home/andrea/.xmonad-status" "xlog" ] , sepChar = "%" , alignSep = "}{" , template = "%xlog% }{ %cpu% | %memory% * %swap% | %eth1% | %LIPB% | <fc=orange>%mydate%</fc> | %battery%" }

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Issue 85 in xmonad: xmonad.hs and XMonad.hs clash on HFS filesystems
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

Issue 85: xmonad.hs and XMonad.hs clash on HFS filesystems http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=85 Comment #4 by m...(a)twifkak.com: HFS user here. I confirmed with Spencer that ghc -i worked, plus, a ghc --make from any other directory works, both of which support the theory that it's the "import XMonad" that's doing it. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings

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Issue 64 in xmonad: floating windows change size after being moved.
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

Issue 64: floating windows change size after being moved. http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=64 Comment #3 by SpencerJanssen: Yes, we should have closed this bug long ago. It only existed in xmonad for about 8 hours :) Issue attribute updates: Status: Fixed -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings

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Issue 64 in xmonad: floating windows change size after being moved.
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Issue 64: floating windows change size after being moved. http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=64 Comment #2 by byorgey: By the way, I think this issue has been resolved (it was caused by some code which sjanssen subsequently reverted), so I think it can be closed? -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings

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Issue 85 in xmonad: xmonad.hs and XMonad.hs clash on HFS filesystems
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Issue 85: xmonad.hs and XMonad.hs clash on HFS filesystems http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=85 Comment #3 by SpencerJanssen: Yes, the issue is the literal module name, GHC won't try to use a "config.hs" file at the root of the directory for an "XMonad.Config" import. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings

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Issue 85 in xmonad: xmonad.hs and XMonad.hs clash on HFS filesystems
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Issue 85: xmonad.hs and XMonad.hs clash on HFS filesystems http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=85 Comment #2 by dons00: Isn't the issue the top level module name? (i.e.Config vs XMonad/Config). Can an HFS user clarify? -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings

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Issue 87 in xmonad: `configuration file' link at xmonad.org is broken
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Issue 87: `configuration file' link at xmonad.org is broken http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=87 Comment #4 by SpencerJanssen: Don had to wait for me to sync the website. It's fixed. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings

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Issue 87 in xmonad: `configuration file' link at xmonad.org is broken
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Issue 87: `configuration file' link at xmonad.org is broken http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=87 Comment #3 by gwern0: I've just opened up Firefox and checked; vvv's right, the link is still http://code.haskell.org/xmonad/Config.hs (which is obviously not right and gives a 404). -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings

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Issue 87 in xmonad: `configuration file' link at xmonad.org is broken
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Issue 87: `configuration file' link at xmonad.org is broken http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=87 Comment #2 by valery.vv: I'm sorry, Don, but the link is still invalid. Are you sure the changes are already there at http://xmonad.org/ ? (Yes, I've reloaded the page in browser.) Have fun. -- vvv -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings

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