August 2007 - xmonad - Haskell.org

a few questions
by Michael Vanier 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

I've been playing around with xmonad 0.2, and so far it's been pretty pleasant. I have a few questions. I'm running xmonad in wide mode exclusively, since my laptop screen is fairly small. First, when I run emacs, it initially comes up in non-fullscreen mode (basically, it uses the default dimensions I set in my .Xresources file, which don't quite fill the screen). When I cycle through other windows and come back to emacs the WM resizes it correctly. I'm wondering why it doesn't do so right away. Is this a bug? Second, I was wondering if there is a way to display the current workspace number and/or window title in a dzen status bar. Third, is it possible to swap workspaces i.e. change workspace 2 to 1 and vice-versa? Thanks for all your help, Mike

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initialization when running xmonad using xnest
by Michael Vanier 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

I'm not ready to switch to using xmonad 100% of the time yet, so for the time being I'm running it using xnest. The problem I'm having is that I don't know how to get xmonad (or xnest) to read an initialization file (e.g. a .xinitrc file) in these circumstances. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Mike

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darcs patch (to download): XPrompt: we have completions and history!
by Andrea Rossato 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Hi, it seems that I still have problem sending patches. Probably it is too big, so please get it from here: http://gorgias.mine.nu/xpromptCompletion.patch With this patch we are almost there: now completions and history work as expected, or at least I hope. Please try it and report problems. If the completion list doesn't fit in the screen, the list will not be scrollable (whós going to scroll so many entries, BTW??). While I would like not to change the API, the configuration can still be modified. To configure your prompts use field labels. That should protect you from major refactoring. Es: myconfig = defaultXPConfig {bgColor = "red" } Hope you'll enjoy. Andrea

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Rotate window Stack
by Hans Philipp Annen 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Hello List, I just recently found out about xmonad and I am addicted already :) Thanks for this great window manager. I have written a function that will rotate all windows in the stack except the master, while leaving the focus where it is. I use it with the TwoPane layout: In this layout, the first window after the master window will be raised whenever the master gets the focus, which I found annoying. If that window has the focus, and you use my rotateSlaves function to change to another window, this window will still be visible when you change the focus to the master window. It is also nice to be able to change the window visible in the second pane without loosing focus in the master window. I was not sure whether I should put this in XMonadContrib, since I think it's a candidate for Operations.hs. Anyway, here is the function: rotSlaves :: SS.StackSet i a s sd -> SS.StackSet i a s sd rotSlaves = SS.modify' rotSlaves' rotSlaves' :: SS.Stack a -> SS.Stack a rotSlaves' (SS.Stack t ls rs) | (null ls) = SS.Stack t [] ((rearRs)++(frontRs)) --Master has focus | otherwise = SS.Stack t' (reverse ((master)++revls')) rs' --otherwise where (frontRs, rearRs) = splitAt (max 0 ((length rs) - 1) rs (ils, master) = splitAt (max 0 ((length ls) - 1) ls toBeRotated = (reverse ils)++(t:rs) (revls',t':rs') = splitAt (length ils) ((last toBeRotated):(init toBeRotated)) a keybinding looks like: , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_Tab ), windows rotSlaves) I hope someone else will find that usefull... Hans Philipp Annen

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darcs patch: XPrompt: a module for easily writing gr... (and 3 more)
by Andrea Rossato 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Hi, there we are. It is not finished but can you can get the taste of what I'm trying to do. I'll send a longer description as a replay to this mail. Andrea Thu Aug 2 17:58:19 CEST 2007 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * XPrompt: a module for easily writing graphical prompts Thu Aug 2 17:58:45 CEST 2007 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * ShellPrompt: a graphical shell prompt This module requires readline and so a modification to xmonad.cabal. See usage for instructions. Thu Aug 2 17:59:43 CEST 2007 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * SshPrompt: a graphical prompt for ssh connection Thu Aug 2 18:00:13 CEST 2007 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * XMonadPrompt: a graphical prompt for running XMonad internal commands

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Some windows appear on the wrong head
by Kai Grossjohann 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Say my focus is on the second head. I start Eclipse. It shows a splash window on the current head (the second one). Then it pops up a workspace chooser window, but that window appears on the first head! (Even though focus is still on the second head, on the Eclipse splash window, in fact.) Ideas? Kai

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Switching focus without pulling hidden windows into the foreground
by Tassilo Horn 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Hi, I often have this scenario: - one editor window - one shell window >From the shell window I open a file in a third window, check some things and make notes in the editor. To have no space occupied by the shell I use the TwoPane layout then. (The editor as master, the file viewer as the only visible slave.) The problem with it is that if I switch from editor to the viewer or vice versa the non-master window gets replaced by the shell window first, so that I need to focusDown several times. Is it possible to switch focus only between visible windows without pulling hidden ones into the foreground? Bye, Tassilo

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darcs patch: MetaModule.hs: add FocusNth. (and 1 more)
by joachim.fasting＠gmail.com 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Thu Aug 2 16:40:23 CEST 2007 joachim.fasting(a)gmail.com * MetaModule.hs: add FocusNth. Thu Aug 2 16:40:42 CEST 2007 joachim.fasting(a)gmail.com * FlexibleManipulate.hs: needs -fglasgow-exts to compile.

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what about a prompt?
by Andrea Rossato 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Hi, what about a prompt? A general one, to be use to run internal xmonad command, to run shell commands, or to run ssh, etc... With completions, possibly. This what I'm working to. Some previous Ion3 users will find it similar to some of their memories. It is not finished yet, this is why I'm not sending it as a patch, but I'm almost there. I did not think it was going to take such a long time - 3 days now (well, I'm not only coding, I'm also trying to enjoy my vacation. Lake, mountains, etc....-) But you can have an idea, and hopefully give suggestions too: save the attached file in XMonadContrib as Prompt.hs. Import it from Config.hs and add some key bindings to lunch the prompts. For instance: , ((modMask .|. controlMask, xK_x), xmonadPrompt defaultPromptConfig) , ((modMask .|. controlMask.|. shiftMask, xK_x), shellPrompt defaultPromptConfig) So far only a shell prompt and an internal commands prompt (xmonadPrompt) are provided (and only the first one with - still unusable - completions). Suggestions, patches, good wishes are welcome. Andrea PS: the guys at suckless dot something say that dmenu is less then 500 lines of code. I'm still below 500 too, with all the extra features. Some stuff needs to be added, but there is a lot of stuff we could get rid of. The code could not be so verbose, but that's one of my problems. Not Haskell's.

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darcs patch: RotSlaves
by Hans Philipp Annen 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Thu Aug 2 11:44:08 CEST 2007 Hans Philipp Annen <haphi(a)gmx.net> * RotSlaves

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