August 2007 - xmonad - Haskell.org

darcs patch: XPrompt: quickcheck related refactoring (and 1 more)
by Andrea Rossato 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

Hi, these patches are the result of a suggestion by Donald. I started using quickcheck to test XPrompt. I've also added a tests directory to the contrib repository, with the tests for XPrompt and ShellPrompt. I did not have time to write not too stupid properties, so I just generated a huge lot of data to check for exceptions... take into account that this is day 1 of my quickcheck experience... suggestions are really welcome! by the way I found what I was hoping not to find, and so I corrected skipLastWord and getlastWord. More to come I'm afraid. andrea Thu Aug 16 20:05:02 CEST 2007 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * XPrompt: quickcheck related refactoring With this patch XPrompt can be tested with quickcheck. As a result getLastWord and skipLastWord has been refactored to avoid possible exceptions. Thu Aug 16 20:07:59 CEST 2007 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * added a tests directory with quickcheck tests for XPrompt and ShellPrompt

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Issue 26 in xmonad: Make workspace switching greedy
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

Issue 26: Make workspace switching greedy http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=26 Comment #1 by SpencerJanssen: Just finished in darcs. Issue attribute updates: Status: Fixed -- 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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Issue 41 in xmonad: Border Color is set after Layout is evaluated making custom border coloration schemes impossible.
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

Issue 41: Border Color is set after Layout is evaluated making custom border coloration schemes impossible. http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=41 New issue report by tim.thelion: What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. install ColorCoding.hs . wget timtheli.freeshell.org/ColorCoding.hs 2. add it as a modifier to you're favorite multiwindow layout. 3. change the border width to like 20 4. rebuild, restart, and start up a bunch of laggy, slow to draw windows. 5. Switch between those windows with the window switch hotkeys, keeping an eye on the master. 6. you may see a bit of red flash on it's border before the custom coloration is overdrawn by xmonads own window colloring code! What is the expected output? What do you see instead? that I would have altimate power, and that xmonad would be more customizable than emacs. What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? darcs, on debian. Please provide any additional information below. If this error is due to a module from XMonadContrib, please tag this issue with 'Component-Contrib' below. Issue attributes: Status: New Owner: ---- Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium -- 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: XPrompt: fixes a nasty bug in getLastWord
by Andrea Rossato 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

Hi, well, the description says it all. sorry, andrea Wed Aug 15 18:34:57 CEST 2007 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * XPrompt: fixes a nasty bug in getLastWord This patch fixes a nasty bug in getLastWord, a bug that causes XMonad to crash as soon as the command line consists of only 2 empty spaces. *PLEASE UPDATE* if you are running XPrompt.

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darcs patch: ghc thinks I don't need those fromIntegrals
by l.mai＠web.de 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

Thu Aug 16 01:18:52 CEST 2007 l.mai(a)web.de * ghc thinks I don't need those fromIntegrals

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xmonad localisation
by Mats Jansborg 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

Hello list, I have some small patches as well as some questions regarding localisation of xmonad, I'm sorry if this runs a little long. Attached is a patch to rewrite David Roundy's NamedWindow using getTextProperty and wcTextPropertyToTextList, which makes it aware of the user's locale. I couldn't find these functions in the existing X11 bindings or in X11-extra so I have attached a second patch for X11-extras that adds them as well as the the TextProperty structure. To make these patches do anything useful, xmonad also needs to call setlocale at some point. It is natural to do this first thing in main, and it is trivial to add except I don't think setlocale or the category constants are in the standard libraries, so the ffi and hsc2hs or similar is needed. In fact, applying these patches without calling setlocale will stop some titles that are now fetched correctly from working, namely those that are in ISO-8859-1 but not ASCII, in effect setting the locale to C, so don't do that. Note also that the patch assumes wchar_t = Data.Char, i.e. that withCWString works correctly. This is often true (always in glibc, I think) but not by any means guaranteed. Another choice would be to use XmbTextPropertyToTextList and keep the title as an opaque byte array. This is nice as long as you don't need to interpret it as a string at which point you need something like iconv. In addition to this, everything that displays text needs to be changed to be locale-aware. This applies to xmonad itself when it prints log messages to stderr without encoding them, but maybe this isn't such a pressing issue to address as it is intended for debugging. More important are extensions that draw text, window titles in particular. I think these should be changed to use X(mb/wc)DrawString, xft, pango or some other locale-aware method. I have some patches that modify David Roundy's Decoration and Tabbed modules to use a small xft binding I made, here's a screen shot: http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/~jansborg/screenshot.png I have used these for a couple of days now and they seem to work, but I don't propose to apply them for several reasons: * they break anything using Decoration * they introduce a dependency on xft which clearly shouldn't be a hard requirement for building xmonad * some people don't like anti-aliasing, I tend to agree at small resolutions/font sizes If there's interest I can post them anyway for people to play with. How is the the organisation of xmonad supposed to account for extensions such as these that need to be linked with additional libraries? It seems any such extensions must patch not only XMonadContrib but also core xmonad to account for the build process, or is there some way around this? /Mats Jansborg

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darcs patch: use XPrompt in WorkspaceDir.
by David Roundy 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

Hi all, Here's an amend-recorded version that allows configuration of the prompt (I found I couldn't handle the small font...). David Tue Aug 14 12:11:03 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * use XPrompt in WorkspaceDir.

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darcs patch: new module DynamicWorkspaces to add and ... (and 2 more)
by David Roundy 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

Mon Aug 13 18:15:01 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * new module DynamicWorkspaces to add and remove workspaces. Mon Aug 13 18:45:48 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * make DynamicWorkspace more thorough. Note: there's still a bug due to our failure to inform the old layouts to clean up. Tue Aug 14 11:35:42 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * clean up DynamicWorkspaces to handle layouts properly.

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darcs patch: fix Commands to work with new workspaces.
by David Roundy 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

This makes MetaModules work with the new type for workspaces. Mon Aug 13 17:41:46 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * fix Commands to work with new workspaces.

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darcs patch: change workspaces to [WorkspaceId]
by David Roundy 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

This simplifies several lines of code (although it doesn't eliminate any lines of code). It eliminates the assumption that the workspace IDs are contiguous, starting at zero, although it doesn't change this property. I hope this change goes in, as it improves the code, and may also lead the way towards friendlier interaction with a changing number of workspaces. David Mon Aug 13 17:37:22 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * change workspaces to [WorkspaceId]

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