October 2008 - xmonad

Fwd: Graphics.X11.Types bug report.
by Tim hobbs 18 Oct '08

18 Oct '08

Hm, I hoped to report a bug to the maintainer of Graphics.X11.Types, but the provided maintainer e-mail bounced. What now? Timothy ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <libraries-owner(a)haskell.org> Date: Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 5:32 PM Subject: Graphics.X11.Types To: tim.thelion(a)gmail.com You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has been automatically rejected. If you think that your messages are being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at libraries-owner(a)haskell.org. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Timothy Hobbs <tim.thelion(a)gmail.com> To: libraries(a)haskell.org Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:36:01 -0700 Subject: Graphics.X11.Types Hello, I believe that the values for xK_KP_0 to xK_KP_9 are wrong in Graphics.X11.Types I tried using these values to map workspaces in xmonad, and they had no effect when pressing the keypad number keys. The F keys work perfectly in the same piece of code. I believe that there is something seriously wrong with this library's architecture. I am attempting to make a work around for a bug in xmonad in which, when one does "setxkbmap cz", the number keys stop responding in xmonad. The layout cz replaces the numbers with symbols, however, shift+number sends the numeric keysym. Thank you, Timothy Hobbs -- - Tim tim.thelion(a)gmail.com

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darcs record tests fail for XMonadContrib
by Matt Brown 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

Hello all, I'm having trouble creating a patch for XMonadContrib using darcs record. Here's the error: /usr/bin/ar: creating dist/build/libHSxmonad-contrib-0.8.a Preprocessing library xmonad-contrib-0.8... Running Haddock for xmonad-contrib-0.8... Warning: The documentation for package base-3.0.1.0 is not installed. No links to it will be generated. Warning: The documentation for package containers-0.1.0.1 is not installed. No links to it will be generated. Warning: The documentation for package directory-1.0.0.0 is not installed. No links to it will be generated. Warning: The documentation for package process-1.0.0.0 is not installed. No links to it will be generated. Warning: The documentation for package random-1.0.0.0 is not installed. No links to it will be generated. Warning: The documentation for package old-time-1.0.0.0 is not installed. No links to it will be generated. Warning: The documentation for package old-locale-1.0.0.0 is not installed. No links to it will be generated. Warning: The documentation for package mtl-1.1.0.0 is not installed. No links to it will be generated. Warning: The documentation for package unix-2.3.0.0 is not installed. No links to it will be generated. Warning: The documentation for package X11-1.4.4 is not installed. No links to it will be generated. Warning: The documentation for package xmonad-0.8 is not installed. No links to it will be generated. Warning: The documentation for package xmonad-0.8 is not installed. No links to it will be generated. dist/build/tmp/./XMonad/Util/XSelection.hs:"dist/build/tmp/./XMonad/Util/XSelection.hs": 33:1: Parse error Test failed! darcs failed: exit: ExitFailure 1 Any ideas what could be wrong? thanks -Matt

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TwoPane showing any two windows
by Magnus Therning 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

Is there a way to switch focus to the left window while keeping the right window fixed in TwoPane? Let me see if I can explain this a little better. If I have three windows on a workspace, wA, wB, and wC. When using `Tall 1 3/100 1/2` I'd have wA in the main area on the left and wB on top of wC on the right side. If I, while wA is the main window, switch to use TwoPane, then wA is on the left and wB is on the right. How do I in this setup place wA next to wC and put focus on wA? I know I can push wC to the left and then flick through the windows on the right until wA comes to the top, but that requires quite a few windows manipulations. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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Issue 224 in xmonad: Window size/position of windows in Gnome Workspace Switcher Panel are not updated when windows are moved to another workspace
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

Issue 224: Window size/position of windows in Gnome Workspace Switcher Panel are not updated when windows are moved to another workspace http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=224 Comment #2 by SpencerJanssen: (No comment was entered for this change.) Issue attribute updates: Status: WontFix -- 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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ANNOUNCE: xmonad 0.8 released!
by Don Stewart 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

http://xmonad.org The xmonad dev team is pleased to announce xmonad 0.8! The headlines: * A general purpose replacement for "gaps" has been adopted. * Floating windows pop up on the current screen by default * Locale support * Rock solid code: No new crash-inducing bugs reported in this release cycle * Many new extensions, including the ability to write your own configuration parsers. * The 1000th commit was made to the project Change logs: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Notable_changes_since_0.7 About: xmonad is a tiling window manager for X. Windows are arranged automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap, maximising screen use. Window manager features are accessible from the keyboard: a mouse is optional. xmonad is extensible in Haskell, allowing for powerful customisation. Custom layout algorithms, key bindings and other extensions may be written by the user in config files. Layouts are applied dynamically, and different layouts may be used on each workspace. Xinerama is fully supported, allowing windows to be tiled on several physical screens. Features: * Very stable, fast, small and simple. * Automatic window tiling and management * First class keyboard support: a mouse is unnecessary * Full support for tiling windows on multi-head displays * Full support for floating, tabbing and decorated windows * Full support for Gnome and KDE utilities * XRandR support to rotate, add or remove monitors * Per-workspace layout algorithms * Per-screens custom status bars * Compositing support * Powerful, stable customisation and reconfiguration * Large extension library * Excellent, extensive documentation * Large, active development team, support and community Get it! Information, screenshots, documentation, tutorials and community resources are available from the xmonad home page: http://xmonad.org The 0.8 release, and its dependencies, are available from hackage.haskell.org: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmonad xmonad packages are available in the package systems of at least: Debian, Gentoo, Arch, Ubuntu, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Gobo, NixOS, Source Mage, Slackware and 0.8 packages will appear in coming days (some are already available). On the fly updating to xmonad 0.8 is supported. You can even use cabal-install: $ cabal update $ cabal install xmonad-0.8 $ cabal install xmonad-contrib-0.8 $ xmonad --recompile mod-q Extensions: xmonad comes with a huge library of extensions (now around 9 times the size of xmonad itself), contributed by viewers like you. Extensions enable pretty much arbitrary window manager behaviour to be implemented by users, in Haskell, in the config files. For more information on using and writing extensions see the webpage. The library of extensions is available from hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmonad-contrib Full documentation for using and writing your own extensions: http://xmonad.org/contrib.html This release brought to you by the xmonad dev team: Spencer Janssen Don Stewart Jason Creighton David Roundy Brent Yorgey Devin Mullins Braden Shepherdson Roman Cheplyaka Lukas Mai Featuring code contributions from over 60 developers: Aaron Denney Adam Vogt Alec Berryman Alex Tarkovsky Alexandre Buisse Andrea Rossato Austin Seipp Bas van Dijk Ben Voui Brandon Allbery Chris Mears Christian Thiemann Clemens Fruhwirth Daniel Neri Daniel Wagner Dave Harrison David Glasser David Lazar Dmitry Kurochkin Dominik Bruhn Dougal Stanton Eric Mertens Ferenc Wagner Gwern Branwen Hans Philipp Annen Ivan Tarasov Ivan Veselov Jamie Webb Jeremy Apthorp Malebria Joachim Breitner Joachim Fasting Joe Thornber Joel Suovaniemi Juraj Hercek Justin Bogner Kai Grossjohann Karsten Schoelzel Klaus Weidner Mathias Stearn Mats Jansborg Matsuyama Tomohiro Michael Fellinger Michael Sloan Miikka Koskinen Neil Mitchell Nelson Elhage Nick Burlett Nicolas Pouillard Nils Anders Danielsson Peter De Wachter Robert Marlow Sam Hughes Shachaf Ben-Kiki Shae Erisson Simon Peyton Jones Stefan O'Rear Tom Rauchenwald Valery V. Vorotyntsev Will Farrington Yaakov Nemoy timthelion Rickard Gustafson Trevor Elliott Ian Zerny Ivan Miljenovic Marco e Silva Michal Janeczek As well as the support of many others on the #xmonad and #haskell IRC channels, and the wider Haskell and window manager communities. Thanks to everyone for their support!

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darcs patch: select base < 4 for building on ghc 6.10
by Adam Vogt 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

Mon Oct 13 17:45:09 EDT 2008 Adam Vogt <vogt.adam(a)gmail.com> * select base < 4 for building on ghc 6.10

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darcs patch: Prompt.hs: mv uniqSort to next to its co... (and 3 more)
by gwern0＠gmail.com 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

Wed Oct 8 15:26:45 EDT 2008 gwern0(a)gmail.com * Prompt.hs: mv uniqSort to next to its confreres, and mention the trade-off Wed Oct 8 16:46:49 EDT 2008 gwern0(a)gmail.com * Prompt.hs: tweak haddocks Wed Oct 8 16:47:10 EDT 2008 gwern0(a)gmail.com * Prompt.hs: have historyCompletion filter dupes Specifically, it calls deleteConsecutiveDuplicates on the end product. uniqSort reverses order in an unfortunate way, so we don't use that. The use-case is when a user has added the same input many times - as it stands, if the history records 30 'top's or whatever, the completion will show 30 'top' entries! This fixes that. Wed Oct 8 16:51:31 EDT 2008 gwern0(a)gmail.com * Prompt.hs rename deleteConsecutiveDuplicates That name is really unwieldy and long.

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darcs patch: Kill window without focusing it first (and 1 more)
by Joachim Breitner 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

Hi, I just wanted to submit the XMONAD_TIMER fix, but it seems it depends on the other one. If the kill window patch would be rejected, I can re-record the XMONAD_TIMER one. Note that the first patch needs the appropriate patch in xmonad-core. Greetings, Joachim Sun Oct 5 02:25:33 CEST 2008 Joachim Breitner <mail(a)joachim-breitner.de> * Kill window without focusing it first This patch requires the patch "add killWindow function" in xmonad. Before this patch, people would experience “workspace flicker” when closing a window via EWMH that is not on the current workspace, for example when quitting pidgin via the panel icon. Wed Oct 8 21:56:43 CEST 2008 Joachim Breitner <mail(a)joachim-breitner.de> * Do not consider XMONAD_TIMER unknown

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darcs patch: SmartBorders even for empty layouts (and 1 more)
by Joachim Breitner 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

Hi, I did the full, proper fix by merging emptyLayoutMod into redoLayout. I did not test all affected modules, but Haskell’s type system makes me confident that this was a proper refactoring. Greetings, Joachim Sun Oct 5 20:44:26 CEST 2008 Joachim Breitner <mail(a)joachim-breitner.de> * SmartBorders even for empty layouts Fixes: http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=223 Sun Oct 5 21:02:20 CEST 2008 Joachim Breitner <mail(a)joachim-breitner.de> * Merge emptyLayoutMod into redoLayout This removes the emptyLayoutMod method from the LayoutModifier class, and change the Stack parameter to redoLayout to a Maybe Stack one. It also changes all affected code. This should should be a refactoring without any change in program behaviour.

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darcs patch: Kill window without focusing it first
by Joachim Breitner 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

Hi, this is for xmonad-contrib. Greetings, Joachim Sun Oct 5 02:25:33 CEST 2008 Joachim Breitner <mail(a)joachim-breitner.de> * Kill window without focusing it first This patch requires the patch "add killWindow function" in xmonad. Before this patch, people would experience “workspace flicker” when closing a window via EWMH that is not on the current workspace, for example when quitting pidgin via the panel icon.

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