June 2007 - xmonad - Haskell.org

floating layer questions
by Avi Rozen 10 Jun '07

10 Jun '07

Hi, I'm having trouble using apps with floating windows. It seems that the only way to move an application to the floating layer is by resizing/moving with the mouse - how do I use keyboard to do this (how about alt-shift-t, to counteract alt-t, or just toggle with alt-t)? Is there a way to launch an application directly into the floating layer? this would help with applications that open many windows. note: with wmii I just need to change focus to the floating layer (even when empty) with alt-space before launching an app (e.g. from dmenu with alt-p, or from an xterm that's already floating). I'm pretty clueless about Haskell, so, at the moment, I can only nag about features/questions. I expect this will change soon enough, but until then - please be gentle :-) Cheers, Avi. -- "If you are an expert in the intricacies of C++, please consider this knowledge a kind of martial art - something a real master never uses."

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Issue 4 in xmonad: Implement float layer
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 10 Jun '07

10 Jun '07

Issue 4: Implement float layer http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=4 Comment #4 by avi.rozen: Please consider 'floating layer focus' (with keyboard) before launching an application as a simple way to ensure its windows start floating (mimic wmii alt-space). -- 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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darcs patch: Modified xmonad-clock.c to display battery information...
by buisse＠cs.chalmers.se 10 Jun '07

10 Jun '07

Sun Jun 10 11:02:28 CEST 2007 buisse(a)cs.chalmers.se * Modified xmonad-clock.c to display battery information from ACPI (will work only on linux though). Also restored three load averages instead of only one.

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New state logging framework
by dons＠cse.unsw.edu.au 10 Jun '07

10 Jun '07

Ok. I'm done with the new logging framework. If you live in darcs, you'll see Config.hs has a new field: -- -- Perform an arbitrary action on each state change. -- Examples include: -- * do nothing -- * log the state to stdout -- logHook :: X () logHook = return () This logHook code will be run on every change to the internal state, and it can do just about anything (!). One possible use is to print the internal workspace state to stdout, and to then pipe that into dzen , to get workspace info in a status bar. Here's the code I use for my own logHook: logHook = withWindowSet $ io . putStrLn . ppr where ppr s = concatMap fmt $ sortBy tags (map S.workspace (S.current s : S.visible s) ++ S.hidden s) where tags a b = S.tag a `compare` S.tag b this = S.tag (S.workspace (S.current s)) pprTag = show . (+(1::Int)) . fromIntegral . S.tag fmt w | S.tag w == this = "[" ++ pprTag w ++ "]" | S.stack w /= S.Empty = " " ++ pprTag w ++ " " | otherwise = "" Which takes the workspace description, and prints it as a string in the form: 1 [2] 3 5 Showing the non-empty workspaces, and the current workspace. I then run xmonad as follows, piping this stuff into dzen: # create a pipe for xmonad to talk to PIPE=$HOME/.xmonad-status rm -f $PIPE /sbin/mkfifo -m 600 $PIPE [ -p $PIPE ] || exit # launch the external 60 second clock, and launch the workspace status bar # xmonad-clock.c is a little program in XMonadContrib/scripts xmonad-clock | dzen2 -e '' -x 300 -w 768 -ta r -fg $FG -bg $BG -fn $FONT & # and a workspace status bar, reading's xmonad's stdout dzen2 -e '' -w 300 -ta l -fg $FG -bg $BG -fn $FONT < $PIPE & xmonad > $PIPE & wait $! I imagine people can do all sorts of wacky things with this logHook. My example logHook is also in XMonadContrib/DynamicLog.hs. -- Don

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Patch to X11, tune up the optimisation a bit
by dons＠cse.unsw.edu.au 10 Jun '07

10 Jun '07

Spencer, you want to apply this to X11 ? -- Don

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darcs patch: make Event derive Typeable.
by David Roundy 10 Jun '07

10 Jun '07

Sat Jun 9 18:04:39 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * make Event derive Typeable.

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the future of xmonad...
by Andrea Rossato 09 Jun '07

09 Jun '07

Hi, I just wanted to stop by and say thanks for your great effort. I discovered XMonad a couple of days ago during an upgrade of my aging system. I used to run Ion3, that is the expression of a given philosophy regarding usability, and I'm planning to switch to XMonad (I'm still in the progress of learning and customizing it, and it is going to take some time, since I'm a bit lazy recently). I've been impressed with your design decisions (Don, please keep on blogging on that, you promised a lot in your first post, and I'll be keeping an eye on you!). Reading your code is quite of a hell of a learning experience for me. I'd like to help, but I'm absolutely new to X Window programming - and, yes, XMonad is quite an incentive to study. I thought about making the source code haddock compatible (it could be useful for new comers like me). Do you think that could be useful? I'd like to add support for hs-plugins (I love and use a lot the lua prompt in Ion3, and I've been dreaming about having an interactive Haskell prompt in my WM), but unfortunately hs-plugins does not work with ghc-6.6.1 (I've just upgraded and built a lot of knew exciting libraries, and I do not want to downgrade back to ghc-6.4.2. Don, could you help me with that? ;-). I'd like to start studying a tabbed layout as soon as I'll have a better understanding of the code base. I must confess that by reading the XMonad site though, I had the slight impression that what you are actually trying do, your main goal, is to prove that Haskell, and its tool chain, allows the rapid development of the highest quality of code. This is not going to be a problem, I'd like to see people attracted to Haskell because of the possibility to write real world (I know, there's a book coming...:-), useful applications. This is my own experience after all. But I'm watching for a different WM because the writer of my previous one came to think that people who patch it are infringing its trade mark, decided to change license and started threatening legal actions against community web sites and to distribute the WM as proprietary software...;-) Thanks for your code. Really. Ciao Andrea

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darcs patch: Give refresh sole responsibility for establishing wind...
by Stefan O'Rear 09 Jun '07

09 Jun '07

Sat Jun 9 11:58:35 PDT 2007 Stefan O'Rear <stefanor(a)cox.net> * Give refresh sole responsibility for establishing window properties (-3 loc)

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darcs patch: make LayoutHints robust with regard to future addition...
by David Roundy 09 Jun '07

09 Jun '07

Sat Jun 9 10:37:25 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * make LayoutHints robust with regard to future addition of Layout fields.

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darcs patch: cut incorrect comment.
by David Roundy 09 Jun '07

09 Jun '07

Sat Jun 9 10:34:47 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * cut incorrect comment.

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