July 2007 - xmonad - Haskell.org

darcs patch: add FlexibleResize to MetaModule
by l.mai＠web.de 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

Sun Jul 8 15:02:29 CEST 2007 l.mai(a)web.de * add FlexibleResize to MetaModule

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darcs patch: link to xinerama-dmenu patch for dmenu 3.2
by Jason Creighton 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

Sat Jul 7 20:14:13 MDT 2007 Jason Creighton <jcreigh(a)gmail.com> * link to xinerama-dmenu patch for dmenu 3.2 Thanks to Dave Harrison for an updated version of the patch.

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dwmpromote vs swapMaster ?
by Xavier Maillard 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

Hello, Just a quick question: what is the difference between dwmpromote and swapMaster ? I tried them all but it seems they are just the same. In a more general way, is there a good documentation for all the XmonadContrib stuff with screenshots so that I can understand in what they can be helpful or not for me ? Regards, Xavier

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XMonadContrib: Tabbed layout bugs
by Geoffrey Alan Washburn 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

Hi, I have been noticing a few bugs with the contributed Tabbed layout (1) Sometimes the tabs will be drawn on top of floating windows. I think this only happens when a floating window is opened in a location that overlaps with a tab, but I haven't found a systematic way of testing this. (2) The text in tabs does not properly handle Unicode. I am assuming my applications, for example Firefox, are using UTF8 in their title strings. In such cases the tab is simply blank. This occurs regardless of whether TabbedLayout is configured with a font that contains the offending glyph or not. The expected behavior when the font does not have the glyph would be to use a blank or box like many other applications do. (3) This is more of an enhancement, but it would be very useful to be able to specify XFT fonts in addition to "classical" X11 fonts for tabs.

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darcs patch: Tabbed: added more configuratio options
by Andrea Rossato 08 Jul '07

08 Jul '07

Hi, this is a patch to make the look and feel of Tabbed layout's tabs similar to the Ion3 tabs. Hope former Ion3 users are going to enjoy. Ciao Andrea Fri Jul 6 14:59:58 CEST 2007 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * Tabbed: added more configuratio options It is now possible to configure active and inactive border colors, and active and inactive text colors (i.e. tabs are now very similar to Ion3 tabs: former Ion users may appreciate).

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darcs patch: Tabs should stay beneath any floating window
by Andrea Rossato 08 Jul '07

08 Jul '07

Hi, this fixes the issue reported by Geoffrey about tabs drawn over floating windows. ciaoa andrea Sat Jul 7 08:49:41 CEST 2007 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * Tabs should stay beneath any floating window This fixes the issue reported by Geoffrey Alan Washburn: " Sometimes the tabs will be drawn on top of floating windows." Not anymore!

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Java app doesn't want to display itself in xmonad
by Dave Harrison 08 Jul '07

08 Jul '07

Hey all, I've got a java app I want to use called JabRef for tracking research papers (http://jabref.sourceforge.net/) but whenever I try and run it while using xmonad I just get an empty grey window - it doesn't crash, it just seems to sit there. I tried starting it in KDE, and it started up successfully, so I can rule out a java install problem. Has anyone else had problems with Java apps (or maybe even this one) in xmonad ? Cheers Dave

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Xinerama screen numbering seems to have changed
by Bruce Stephens 08 Jul '07

08 Jul '07

It seems that they're numbered from 1 rather than 0, so everything works OK if I do hunk ./Config.hs 175 - | (key, sc) <- zip [xK_w, xK_e, xK_r] [0..] + | (key, sc) <- zip [xK_w, xK_e, xK_r] [1..] and make the appropriate change to dmenuXinerama. Is that a deliberate change? (I'm indifferent to it; I'm just slightly concerned I might have broken something in my local build.)

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xmobar-0.5 "The Monolitic" just released!
by Andrea Rossato 08 Jul '07

08 Jul '07

Hi, Introducing XMobar, "the Monolitic", a minimalistic text based status bar (and system monitor) for the XMonad Window Manager, featuring dynamic color management and external program execution. Grab it here: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmobar-0.5 The required screen shot (XMobar is at the very bottom): http://gorgias.mine.nu/xmobar/xmobar-0.5.jpg To run this: xmobar xmobar.config-sample xmobar.config-sample comes with the distributed package. Please have a look to the README for more details on how configure XMobar. About this release ------------------ I was talking with Spencer in the #xmonad channel and he suggested to run monitors internally, so to get rid, as much as possible, of System.Process.runInteractiveCommand (btw, in ghc HEAD this function leaks memory, as does runInteractiveProcess in 6.6.1 - but this last one keeps on leaking in HEAD too...things are getting better, in terms of symmetry, at leas;-). Spencer also suggested a data type. That was a nice suggestion too, since I was eager to declare at least one class in XMobar. So, eventually I was able to internally run monitors with class and, hopefully, less resource consumption. This also means that monitors are not just examples any more, but real stuff: I tried at least to improve the most stupid one, the weather monitor, that now should at least report some error if something goes wrong. I wrote something about configuring XMobar in the README: that should be a complete reference. I'm far from saying it is readable, but there it is. At least I wrote it. This new way of running monitors requires some more code clean up, getting rid of some stupid duplicates. That will be done with the next release. Please report back if you think this is an improvement over previous releases. Hope you'll enjoy. Comments, suggestions, critiques, top output/comparison with dzen2, or other C/C++ stuff are always welcome. ;-) All the best, Andrea

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darcs patch: Tabbed: updated usage information
by Andrea Rossato 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

Updates usage information for the Tabbed layout (to be applied if the new configuration patch is accepted). ciao andrea Sat Jul 7 08:51:23 CEST 2007 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * Tabbed: updated usage information

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