October 2008 - xmonad

windowPromptBringCopy
by Matt Brown 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

Hello all, I've been playing around with window prompt, and totally digging it. I thought it was lacking the ability to bring a copy of a window to the current workspace, so I wrote a quick implementation. I've included a patch of Window.hs in case anyone is interested. -matt

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darcs patch: XMonad.Core: make spawn smarter
by gwern0＠gmail.com 09 Oct '08

09 Oct '08

Sun Sep 21 01:30:17 EDT 2008 gwern0(a)gmail.com * XMonad.Core: make spawn smarter Have spawn examine $SHELL if it exists. $SHELL is the user's preferred shell, and may do many things the user wants but the default /bin/sh does not.

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IM layout configuration for Psi
by Matt Brown 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

Hello all, I'm trying to set up the IM layout for the Psi xmpp client. I found a working config for skype online, and tried tweaking it for psi, but no luck so far. Has anyone else done this? Is there a way to dump the window properties for a window, to give me a better idea how to configure? thanks -matt

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How to handle modal dialog windows
by Peter 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

Hi I use the following layout: myLayout = tiled ||| Mirror tiled ||| Full ||| HintedTile 1 0.1 0.5 TopLeft XMonad.Layout.HintedTile.Tall where -- default tiling algorithm partitions the screen into two panes tiled = XMonad.Tall nmaster delta ratio -- The default number of windows in the master pane nmaster = 1 -- Default proportion of screen occupied by master pane ratio = 1/2 -- Percent of screen to increment by when resizing panes delta = 3/100 Some applications like firefox, thunderbird make heavy use of modal dialogs, for example to set preferences. These are usually small windows that float over the application until you dismiss them. However, with the layouts I use, those windows get scaled to fill have of the screen, left to the application. That is annoying , in particular since the control buttons (OK Cancel ) do not appear , so I have to force quit that window. I really like those layouts above for everything (xterm windows, vims , etc ) but I would like to adjust xmonad in order to take into account the modal dialogs for the typical GUI Apps. Any ideas are welcomed Thanks for help Peter

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darcs patch: Subscribe to leaveNotify events for windows (and 1 more)
by Joachim Breitner 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

Hi, this is the correct patch. It gets screefocus-follows-mouse going. The trick is to enable leaveNotify events for client windows (no enterNotify event for the root window is generated when you move the mouse from a window to the empty space). But these events are generated for the old window, so we must not feed that to focus (or we might create an infinite loop), so there is focusScreen which just makes the screen below the mouse current if it turns out to be a different one than the active one. Works with UpdatePointer without problems. Greetings, Joachim Wed Oct 8 18:25:36 CEST 2008 Joachim Breitner <mail(a)joachim-breitner.de> * Subscribe to leaveNotify events for windows Wed Oct 8 18:29:06 CEST 2008 Joachim Breitner <mail(a)joachim-breitner.de> * Switch screen for leaveNotify events ..but do not focus the event's window, as it was just left.

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darcs patch: Subscribe to leaveNotify events for windows (and 1 more)
by Joachim Breitner 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

Wed Oct 8 18:25:36 CEST 2008 Joachim Breitner <mail(a)joachim-breitner.de> * Subscribe to leaveNotify events for windows Wed Oct 8 18:26:19 CEST 2008 Joachim Breitner <mail(a)joachim-breitner.de> * Switch screen for leaveNotify events ...but do not try to focus this window, as it is the window we just left.

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darcs patch: Actions.Search: add a few search engines
by intrigeri＠boum.org 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

Wed Oct 8 12:40:33 CEST 2008 intrigeri(a)boum.org * Actions.Search: add a few search engines Add Debian {package, bug, tracking system} search engines, as well as Google Images and isohunt.

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center pointer
by Matt Brown 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Hello all, Is there a way to relocate the mouse pointer to the center of the focused window? I have a multi head setup, and it's a bit of a pain to drag the pointer all over the place all the time. thanks -matt

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darcs patch: add'l documentation
by Devin Mullins 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Some documentation, including the aforementioned /bin/sh note. recorded with 'darcs rec --no-test' (since my haskell setup is busted atm), so you might want to verify it haddocks okay. Sat Sep 27 16:46:39 PDT 2008 Devin Mullins <me(a)twifkak.com> * add'l documentation

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darcs patch: Actions.Search: added {deb, debbts, debpts, images, isohun...
by intrigeri＠boum.org 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Tue May 13 15:30:45 CEST 2008 intrigeri(a)boum.org * Actions.Search: added {deb,debbts,debpts,images,isohunt} search engines

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