November 2007 - xmonad

Ssh-Prompt: Completion
by Dominik Bruhn 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

Hy, im currently using XMonad and XMonadContrib from darcs. There seems one problem: The completion for the ssh-prompt is not working at all. Although I have no knowledge of haskell at all I think the code includes this completion but tries to read the ~/.ssh/known_hosts. This file exists but does not contain the ssh-hosts I connected to in cleartext so they get skipped. On the otherside the file ~/.xmonad_history contains all the hosts I conntected to but this file is not taken into account uppon completion. Is this a bug or a feature? Is it possible to fix? Thanks a lot -- Dominik Bruhn mailto: dominik(a)dbruhn.de

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Trouble configuring xmonad on gentoo
by Nathan Huesken 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

Hello together, I am new to xmonad. I installed it on my gentoo system using the haskell overlay and "emerge xmonad". No I want to change the configuration: I tried uncommenting the following lines in /etc/portage/savedconfig/x11-wm/xmonad-0.4.1: (Line 69) import qualified XMonadContrib.HintedTile (Line 248) , XMonadContrib.HintedTile.tall nmaster delta ratio and did emerge -av xmonad: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] x11-wm/xmonad-0.4.1 USE="extensions savedconfig" 0 kB (...) Building xmonad-0.4.1... [1 of 7] Compiling StackSet ( StackSet.hs, dist/build/xmonad/xmonad-tmp/StackSet.o ) [2 of 7] Compiling XMonad ( XMonad.hs, dist/build/xmonad/xmonad-tmp/XMonad.o ) [3 of 7] Compiling Config[boot] ( Config.hs-boot, nothing ) [4 of 7] Compiling Operations ( Operations.hs, dist/build/xmonad/xmonad-tmp/Operations.o ) [5 of 7] Compiling XMonadContrib.HintedTile ( XMonadContrib/HintedTile.hs, dist/build/xmonad/xmonad-tmp/XMonadContrib/HintedTile.o ) XMonadContrib/HintedTile.hs:55:13: Not in scope: `modifyLayout' What am I doing wrong? Thanks! nathan

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new contrib modules in XMonad.Prompt
by Brent Yorgey 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hi all, I just pushed a few new contrib modules and wanted to highlight them here in case anyone might find them useful, or think of something interesting to do with them. Basically, I just discovered the excellent XMonad.Promptframework and have been playing around with it. * The first is XMonad.Prompt.AppendFile, which simply provides a prompt for you to type a single line of text which should be appended to a file. I use it for quickly writing down notes/reminders/todos that pop into my head into a special file, when I don't want to interrupt whatever else I'm doing. You could also use it for, say, writing a new xmonad contrib module line-by-line, although I don't recommend it. =) * The next is (IMO) the most interesting, XMonad.Prompt.Input. It provides a nice, modular way to build actions which require user input, using the existing prompt system to get the user input. I also refactored XMonad.Prompt a bit to make this possible. * XMonad.Prompt.Email is a simple example of the sort of thing that's possible with XMonad.Prompt.Input; it prompts the user for a recipient, a subject, and a short (one-line) body, and sends an e-mail via the GNU 'mail' utility. Comments, suggestions, and (especially) patches welcome! -Brent

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Issue 4 in xmonad: Separate focus for tiled and floating layers
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Issue 4: Separate focus for tiled and floating layers http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=4 Comment #8 by daveroundy: This doesn't only affect fullscreen mode: it effects any mode that uses the focus to determine layout, which includes tabbed, magnifier, accordion, etc. -- 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 95 in xmonad: Improve floating layer usability
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Issue 95: Improve floating layer usability http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=95 Comment #3 by daveroundy: See also issue 4. -- 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 95 in xmonad: Improve floating layer usability
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Issue 95: Improve floating layer usability http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=95 Comment #2 by daveroundy: I'd just like to suggest that you could experiment with an alternate floating mode by writing a floating layout (which would make everything be floating) and then combining it with a tiling layout using combineTwo. You could then define JumpToLayout keybindings to float and sink windows between the two layouts. It's slightly hacky, but would mean that your code could be put into contrib before it's complete, so others could easily help out. -- 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 95 in xmonad: Improve floating layer usability
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Issue 95: Improve floating layer usability http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=95 Comment #1 by m...@christian-thiemann.de: This issue was bugging me a lot last week while preparing images for a presentation with gimp... so I already started looking into the code on how to fix this. As far as I understood, floating windows are simply tagged to be floating while the (visual) window stacking order is determined by the stacking order in the StackSet. In my opinion and as you said, the only defect of the floating layer is the lack of a raise function that can be triggered either by mouse (raise-on-click) or by keyboard (just to be consistent with the "keyboardless window manager" approach... although most people would probably use the mouse in the floating mode...). This could be done either by simply rearranging the windows in the StackSet or by maintaining an additional ordered list of floating windows (which are not present in the tiling stack). The former approach has the side effect that a floating window will not sink back into the same position where it was when set to floatig while the latter solution is just... er... I don't know... I actually like the first one better for conceptual reasons... Unless somebody immediately know how to code this, I would be happy to implement... but currently I am quite busy so I won't get on it before the weekend, I guess. Cheers, Christian -- 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 95 in xmonad: Improve floating layer usability
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Issue 95: Improve floating layer usability http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=95 New issue report by dons00: Now that we float things like gimp by default, the floating layer needs some thought as to usability. The currently raise, and stacking, behaviour can be annoying or confusing. I suggest we try to just emulate a simple wm like fluxbox, in the floating layer (raise on click, no reshuffling). likely needs stackset changes. Issue attributes: Status: Accepted Owner: dons00 Labels: Type-Enhancement Priority-Medium Milestone-Release0.6 -- 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 94 in xmonad: Reduce required imports in xmonad.hs configuration files
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Issue 94: Reduce required imports in xmonad.hs configuration files http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=94 New issue report by SpencerJanssen: Users must import XMonad.StackSet and Data.Map explicitly in many typical config files, they should not have to do this. Issue attributes: Status: Accepted Owner: SpencerJanssen Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium Milestone-Release0.5 -- 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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Window headers - as in Tabbed Layout - for Tall Layout
by Nicola Paolucci 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hi All, I've been using xmonad with great joy for the past months. It is wonderful, compact and elegant. Love it. Thank you all. I like the Tabbed Layout and I was wondering if a similar extension already exists that allows to put window headers on the Tall Layout. I mean something to add a small title bar with the name of the program on top of each window in Tall mode. I have gone through the contrib modules but could not find it. If it does not exist yet I'd love to experiment a bit and try to write it myself. Am I on the right track if I use a LayoutModifier to be applied to the Tall Layout? Thanks, Regards, Nick -- The universe is a giant Rorschach ink-blot - Alan Watts

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