April 2007 - xmonad - Haskell.org

darcs patch: configurable border colors
by Jason Creighton 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Sun Apr 29 22:38:59 MDT 2007 Jason Creighton <jcreigh(a)gmail.com> * configurable border colors This also fixes a bug where xmonad was assuming a 24-bit display, and just using, eg, 0xff0000 as an index into a colormap without querying the X server to determine the proper pixel value for "red".

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A plan for external configuration and extension
by dons＠cse.unsw.edu.au 29 Apr '07

29 Apr '07

So we've got a plan for collecting and distributing all the nice config.hs and external program hacks for xmonad. The idea is to pull extensions from a central repo of extensions: http://darcs.haskell.org/~sjanssen/XMonadContrib/ An example of how to use, e.g. the simpleDate popup menu extension here: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/xmonad-web/contrib.html (And on xmonad.org/contrib.html soon). Basically, keep all extensions as haskell modules (and external programs) in this repo. Users then darcs pull (or wget) to overlay the extensions on their xmonad repo. Once downloaded, using an extension is as simple as editing Config.hs: import XMonadContrib.SimpleDate and adding a key binding, building and mod-shift-ctrl-q reloading. Hopefully this will address the tension between a minimal, high polished xmonad core, with arbitrarily complex 3rd party extensions. Have you written a nice extension? Have an interesting Config.hs? If so, please stick them in XMonadContrib, and send us the patch! Demo Config.hs and other programs should also be contributed as patches to the examples/ subdirectory. -- Don

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gmane archives
by dons＠cse.unsw.edu.au 29 Apr '07

29 Apr '07

xmonad@ email is also archived on gmane now, http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.xmonad/ -- Don

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Bug tracker set up
by dons＠cse.unsw.edu.au 29 Apr '07

29 Apr '07

We've set up a bug tracker for keeping on top of xmonad open issues. Please use it to report bugs! http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/list The (not so secret) goal is to have xmonad the best specified, most stable window manager in its class, and properly tracking open issues should help this. We've also got a man page now: http://xmonad.org/manpage.html Thanks to fantasma (who also set up xmonad.org in the first place). -- Don

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Ideas on configuring workspaces?
by Dale Jordan 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

Firstly, thanks for the tips on getting XM working on FreeBSD. I got it working after upgrading to FreeBSD 6.2 (required to build GHC 6.6) and getting Cabal from darcs. Finally a window manager a non-X-guru can (mostly) understand. I have been looking at having XM configure my workspaces, rather than doing it manually after prelaunching apps in .xinitrc or launching them from the keyboard. However, I don't have a clue how to correlate the app's windowID, when they decide to map themselves, with any data structures I might build in Config.hs. Does anyone have any clues about what info is available through X that might help? Dale Jordan

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"Empty" KeyMask: 0 vs AnyModifier vs ...?
by Andy Gimblett 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

Hi all, I'm trying to set up keybindings in Config.hs which require no modifier at all. eg, to launch a terminal when I hit F2. The following works: , ((0, xK_F2 ), spawn "urxvt") but doesn't feel "right". Is there a better candidate for the KeyMask field? I thought anyModifier might be right (something Anselm once said seemed to support that: http://www.suckless.org/pipermail/dwm/2006-October/001078.html ) but no, it doesn't. Any thoughts? Thanks, -Andy -- Andy Gimblett Computer Science Department University of Wales Swansea http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csandy/

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How do I know if Xinerama's working?
by Bruce Stephens 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

I've just built X11-extras and xmonad, largely without incident, and Xinerama seems not to be working: when I create an xterm, it spans both screens. Is that to be expected? I was expecting each screen to contain its own workspace. There's no problem with my X.org setup in general: I have a libXinerama.so.1, and (for example) ion3 links against it and seems to use it. (xmonad doesn't link against it, according to ldd, but I'm not sure whether I should expect it to or not.)

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Using dzen for a popup statusbar in xmonad
by dons＠cse.unsw.edu.au 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

I've been experimenting with simple approaches to having an external statusbar for xmonad. One possible option is to use dzen, a console-based X statusbar client: http://gotmor.googlepages.com/dzen Using dzen, we can , for example, have a popup clock/system status shell script, like so: #!/bin/sh au=`date +"%H.%M %a %b %d"` uk=`TZ=GMT date +"UK %H.%M"` us=`TZ=America/New_York date +"NY %H.%M"` ca=`TZ=America/Los_Angeles date +"SF %H.%M"` hw=`/sbin/sysctl hw.setperf | sed "s/.*=//" | perl -anle 'print (0.6 + ($F[0]) / 100)'` ut=`uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'` bt=`/usr/sbin/apm | sed -n 's/.*: $[^ ]*$.*$/\1/;2p;4p' | xargs printf "apm %s%%, AC %s\n"` (printf "%s : %s : %s : %s : %s Ghz : %s :%s\n" "$au" "$uk" "$us" "$ca" "$hw" "$bt" "$ut"; sleep 10) | dzen2 So this just gathers some info from my system, then pipes a string into dzen2, and times it out after 10 seconds. We can then bind to this 'status' script from Config.hs: , ((modMask, xK_s ), spawn "/home/dons/bin/status") That is, mod-s pops up a 10 second status bar with the time, and some system info. Probably we can do some more fun things with dzen. Happy hacking, Don

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thanks and a feature request
by brad clawsie 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

thanks to everyone on this list and in #haskell who assisted me with freebsd build issues. the combination of an updated Cabal library, and X11-extras-0.1 fixed my issues. i am now using xmonad at home, work, and on my laptop (all running freebsd6.2). as a feature request, it would be nice to pre-assign workspaces to application names in Config.hs. i don't see the need to be too dogmatic about copying dwm, but this is one feature i like. thanks again brad

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#xmonad irc channel created
by dons＠cse.unsw.edu.au 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Feel free to drop by #xmonad on irc.freenode.net. All the devs of xmonad are there, and a fair bit of development discussion happens there. -- Don

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