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darcs patch: NamedWindows: if fetchName returns Nothi... (and 1 more)
by Andrea Rossato 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

I'm sending the last two patches again (so forget the previous ones) since their descriptions were so full of typos... Thanks, Andrea Fri Jul 6 15:06:44 CEST 2007 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * NamedWindows: if fetchName returns Nothing sets the name to resName ClassHint fetchName may return a Nothing if the window's name contains multi byte characters. In such a case the resName string of the ClassHints of that window will be used instead. Fri Jul 6 15:08:45 CEST 2007 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * Tabbed: added more configuration 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: NamedWindows: if fetchName return Nothing set the nema...
by Andrea Rossato 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

This is a work around for the Unicode problem affecting the Tabbed layout. This is a work around. For a proper solution see here: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ch-examples.en.html#s13.1.8 Ciao Andrea Fri Jul 6 13:46:41 CEST 2007 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * NamedWindows: if fetchName return Nothing set the nema to resName ClassHint fetchName may return a Nothing if the window's name contains multi byte characters. In such a case the resName string of the ClassHints of that window will be used to set name.

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xmobar-0.4 - the xmonad status bar - released!
by Andrea Rossato 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

hi! I've just released xmobar-0.4, my XMonad status bar: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmobar-0.4 XMobar is a minimalistic text only status bar. What's new: - many performance improvements on the monitors side; - added a (sort of) library for writing monitors; - every monitor takes a set of command-line options to set: * high and low thresholds, * high, normal and low colors * output template. Try for instance xmb-weather --help Example: [15:47:29]$ xmb-weather -t "<station> <tempF>, <rh>, (<hour>)" EGPF Glasgow Airport <fc=#FF0000>62.6</fc>, <fc=#FF0000>72.0</fc>, (13:20) For me xmobar is a good-enough replacement of the Ion3 status bar. I hope you'll enjoy it. Any suggestion, comments, critics are welcome. Know bugs: center alignment does produce weird (but nice) results. All the best, Andrea

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Reporting XMonadContrib bugs
by Geoffrey Alan Washburn 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

I didn't see anything about this on the mailing list, but should bugs for XMonadContrib be filed on http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/list as well?

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Notes on xmonad
by Simon Peyton-Jones 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Here are some note I jotted down as I was working on the xmonad code. * allocaXEvent/nextEvent/getEvent sequence is too ugly to appear in Main! You can hide the EventPtr structure in the XMonad, and allocate it in runX. * When you resize the xnest window, the new size isn't reported to xmonad. Instead, the xmonad window is truncated. Turns out to be xnest's fault. * Ugly Stack vs StackOrNot. This should be hidden inside StackSet. The only place it's used is in runLayout. Likewise there should be only one exported integrate, not integrate and integrate' * 'modify' is defined in Control.Monad.State and in StackSet -- very confusing. Furthermore, although modify, modify' are exported from StackSet, they are never used (and probably should not be exported, so as to preserve the abstaction). * In StackSet.findIndex, use integrate rather than reimplementing it * In StackSet.new, the Nothing should be emptyStack, with a suitable defn for emptyStack * In Operations, line 171, Stack should be abstract! use 'focus' to extract the focus. Ditto line 372 * StackSet.focus is not the same as Operations.focus. Unhelpful! * I respecfully suggest that this code (Operations.hs) is impenetrable tiled = (W.stack . W.workspace . W.current $ this) >>= W.filter (not . flip M.member (W.floating ws)) * In the call to restackWindows in Operations.hs, why bring the focused window to the front of the list? Needs a comment at least.

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Re: Emailing: A taste of Haskell.pdf
by dons＠cse.unsw.edu.au 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hey xmonad community, Simon PJ is running xmonad in xnest, for the upcoming OSCON Haskell tutorial, and we've noticed xnest seems to crop the edge of the screen - or misreport its size: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/tmp/screen-spj.png Anyone seen this, running xmonad in xnest, or know how to fix it? -- Don simonpj: > Phew! I think I managed a screen shot. Notice that xclock is > truncated at the right, and both windows are truncated at the bottom. > Help earnestly desired! Thanks > > Simon > > dons > > simonpj: > > > Thanks. > > > > > > While I think about it, I have a scaling problem, at least when > > > using xnest. The right hand strip and bottom strip of each window is > > > truncated -- e.g. the xterm window material disappears below the > > > bottom of the displayed window. And xclock doesn't fit. > > > > > > Any idea what that might be? I could send you a screenshot. Maybe > > > xmonad thinks the display area is bigger than it is? > > > > Yeah, a screen shot. What geometry is the xnest screen? Also, which > > version of xmonad are you using? > > Can you manually enlarge the Xnest window? Xnest chooses a screen > geometry when it starts and always reports this geometry to clients -- > even if the actual containing window is smaller. Running 'xdpyinfo' > inside Xnest will report the geometry it desires.

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darcs patch: the gaps list should be filled with the default value ...
by Andrea Rossato 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

hi, this corrects what I believe was and is a bug in the original code: the gaps list should be filled with the default values set in Config.hs. We are simulating a xinerama setup, but we have just one set of gaps. ciao andrea Thu Jul 5 00:41:10 CEST 2007 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * the gaps list should be filled with the default value from Config.hs

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darcs patch: SimpleStacking: -Wall police
by Alec Berryman 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Wed Jul 4 15:12:55 CDT 2007 Alec Berryman <alec(a)thened.net> * SimpleStacking: -Wall police

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darcs patch: SimpleStacking: remove note about Xinerama incompatabi...
by Alec Berryman 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Wed Jul 4 15:06:26 CDT 2007 Alec Berryman <alec(a)thened.net> * SimpleStacking: remove note about Xinerama incompatability, works fine now

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[new] darcs patch: ScreenLayouts.hs: updates to the last API changes
by Andrea Rossato 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

hi! please forget the previous one. sometimes it takes time to relize that: map (\(x,y) -> f x y) $ zip xs ys is actually: zipWith f xs ys ciao andrea Tue Jul 3 22:11:45 CEST 2007 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * ScreenLayouts.hs: updates to the last API changes A silent API change broke this nice piece of David's code: Spencer decided to move screen details into StackSet, and there we went to manipulate them!

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