February 2008 - xmonad

darcs patch: Add windowRemover for make tabbed return just the focu...
by Andrea Rossato 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

Hi, this is a follow up of the discussion with Spencer about tabbed. This patch implements WindowRemover. If placed over tabbed it should be removing unfocused windows, without touching the windows decoration. WARNING: while this patch passes all tests both with ghc-6.6.1 and ghc-6.8.2, when I build this test file: import XMonad import XMonad.Config.Arossato main = xmonad =<< arossatoConfig ghc-6.6.1 fails with this linker error: [12:00:33][wolf@laptop:~/.xmonad]$ ghc --make xmonad.hs Linking xmonad ... /usr/local/lib/xmonad-contrib-0.6/ghc-6.6.1/libHSxmonad-contrib-0.6.a(Combo.o): In function `s1e0s_info': ghc3557_0.hc:(.text+0x3ada): undefined reference to `xmonadzmcontribzm0zi6_XMonadziLayoutziWindowNavigation_zdf3_info' /usr/local/lib/xmonad-contrib-0.6/ghc-6.6.1/libHSxmonad-contrib-0.6.a(Combo.o):(.rodata+0xa8): undefined reference to `xmonadzmcontribzm0zi6_XMonadziLayoutziWindowNavigation_zdf3_closure' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status The same code compiles, and works perfectly (unless bugs introduced by its author, me) on ghc-6.8.2. This is why I'd like someone to test it (I'll include it also in the bug tracker). Cheers, Andrea Fri Feb 1 11:55:05 CET 2008 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * Add windowRemover for make tabbed return just the focused window

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darcs patch: Run.hs: add an option to runinterms (and 1 more)
by gwern0＠gmail.com 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Mon Feb 4 22:18:24 EST 2008 gwern0(a)gmail.com * Run.hs: add an option to runinterms It turns out that for urxvt, and most terminal, apparently, once you give a '-e' option, that's it. They will not interpret anything after that as anything but input for /bin/sh, so if you wanted to go 'runInTerm "'screen -r session' -title IRC"', you were SOL - the -title would not be seen by urxvt. This, needless to say, is bad, since then you can't do stuff like set the title which means various hooks and extensions are helpless. This patch adds an extra options argument which is inserted *before* the -e. If you want the old behaivour, you can just go 'runInTerm "" "executable"', but now if you need to do something extra, 'runInTerm "-title mutt" "mutt"' works fine. This patch also updates callers. Mon Feb 4 22:21:55 EST 2008 gwern0(a)gmail.com * +doc for WindowGo.hs: I've discovered a common usecase for me for raiseMaybe

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Trying to code jump-or-execute
by Joseph Garvin 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

I'm a former sawfish user, and I used to have this really awesome keyboard shortcut called "jump-or-exec". I would press for example Super+F, and if Firefox was not running, it would be executed, and if it was already running, then it would be given focus. I had similar shortcuts for emacs, terminals, etc. I'm a bit of a haskell newb -- I can tell that I can simply use 'spawn' to launch a process, and if I had a list of current windows I would know how to iterate through them and find out whether one currently exists, but I don't know how to get such a list. Ideally I'd like to be able to match against window title or class. Is there a way to do this with xmonad?

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[dons@galois.com: Re: More than 5 mouse buttons in Graphics.X11?]
by Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Hi! I'd really like to be able to ,((0, button6), withFocused W.swapMaster) (with EZConfig and additionalMouseBindings) See forwarded mail. -- Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs <friedel(a)nomaden.org> Laziness led to the invention of the most useful tools.

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darcs patch: XMonad.Actions.WindowGo: add a runOrRaise module for ...
by gwern0＠gmail.com 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Mon Feb 4 12:34:02 EST 2008 gwern0(a)gmail.com * XMonad.Actions.WindowGo: add a runOrRaise module for Joseph Garvin with the help of Spencer Janssen

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new and improved PerWorkspace!
by Brent Yorgey 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Hi all! It is with great pleasure that I unveil a new and improved version of PerWorkspace, which discovers which workspace it is on using Spencer's idea of a special message type sent to all workspaces via a startupHook, rather than querying the currently focused workspace. The result is that PerWorkspace is able to choose the correct layout right away, without waiting for a window to be created. More excitingly, it also (should) mean that it works just fine with Xinerama! emptyLayout is also implemented so this should close issue #127. There is still definitely room to improve the code, perhaps via some sort of layout combinator class, but this is a good start. I could push this to contrib myself, but (1) it depends on some patches to the core that I just sent, so I'll have to wait for those to be applied first, and (2) I don't have a xinerama setup so I can't actually test it on xinerama myself. If anyone with a xinerama setup would be willing to confirm that this does indeed work in conjunction with xinerama I'd be grateful! Once the core patches get applied and I get some confirmation that PerWorkspace now works in conjunction with xinerama, I'll go ahead and push to the contrib repo. Please note that upgrading will require adding startupHook = initPerWorkspace to your config. Other than that, your current PerWorkspace configuration can stay exactly as it is. If you forget to add the startupHook, you won't get any errors but PerWorkspace simply will not work (all layouts will be displayed as "PerWorkspace" and the default layout will be used). This is explained in the haddock PerWorkspace documentation. xmonadically yours, -Brent (byorgey)

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Issue 126 in xmonad: Restarting xmonad doesn't work
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Issue 126: Restarting xmonad doesn't work http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=126 Comment #5 by byorgey: (No comment was entered for this change.) Issue attribute updates: Status: Invalid -- 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 135 in xmonad: toggleBorders (XMonad.Action.NoBorders) Causes floating windows to grow in size
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Issue 135: toggleBorders (XMonad.Action.NoBorders) Causes floating windows to grow in size http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=135 Comment #1 by byorgey: Indeed, this is a known issue (known to me, at least) but thanks for logging a ticket. I don't know enough about how all the border stuff works to know what the issue is, but hopefully someone can take a look. However, I get the feeling that this module is something of a hack so it may not be easy to fix... Issue attribute updates: Status: Accepted -- 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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Re: [xmonad] darcs patch: Add windowRemover for make tabbed return just the focu...
by Andrea Rossato 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:11:34PM +0100, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > Additionally, you are working fast. There was a comment to the effect that > you were too fast and flooding the mailing list with postings. I disagree > with this comment. Yes, you were sending a lot of email, but no, he should > not have asked you to slow down. He should have been happy about you doing > so much work. I don't think this is entirely true. You also need to take into account that, since we are working on the same code, everyone needs to understand what the others are doing. Then there was the unfortunate code freeze, due to the fact that many of us had a very busy agenda and could not find the time to do all that pre release work that must be done. Do you want some evidence? xmonad --version I believe that once we can sit down quietly and discuss about the code a good solution will be found. Thanks for your kind words. Andrea

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Ubuntu 0.6 debs?
by Jevin Maltais 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Hey crew? Who's maintaining the Ubuntu packages? Is someone submitting them to the distro for inclusion? If not, I'm willing to help! Jevin -- Jevin Maltais [jevin(a)techie.com] http://jevy.org

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