September 2008 - xmonad

Many login sessions
by Mauricio 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

Hi, When I use Ubuntu with default window management, I have an option to let some other user log, without unloging myself. Would that be possible with xmonad? Thanks, Maurício

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darcs patch: let Grid have a configurable aspect ratio goal
by daniel＠wagner-home.com 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

Sun Sep 21 21:09:50 EDT 2008 daniel(a)wagner-home.com * let Grid have a configurable aspect ratio goal

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darcs patch: Paste.hs: shorten comment lines to under... (and 1 more)
by gwern0＠gmail.com 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

Sun Sep 21 11:49:50 EDT 2008 gwern0(a)gmail.com * Paste.hs: shorten comment lines to under 80 columns per sjanssen Sun Sep 21 11:50:38 EDT 2008 gwern0(a)gmail.com * Paste.hs: +warning about ASCII limitations

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Ratpoison key emulation
by Gwern Branwen 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

Hiya everyone. So as I've long mused about, I've gotten around to seeing how difficult it'd be to do a Ratpoison style keymap for XMonad. It went reasonably well, but I've run into a number of Ratpoison commands where I can't see what to bind them to (or whether the functionality is implemented in XMC somewhere I just don't know about), so I thought I'd demonstrate what I have and see whether anyone has any suggestions. The code is as follows: {- Not implemented: C-t C-t Switch to the last window. C-t t Sometimes you need to send a C-t to the current window. This keystroke does just that. C-t A C-t C-A Rename the current window. The window's new name will prevail for the rest of its lifetime. C-t ' C-t C-' Go to a window by name. You will usually only need to type the first few characters of the window name. C-t a C-t C-a Display the current time of day. C-t : This allows you to execute a single ratpoison command. C-t i C-t C-i Display information about the current window. C-t m C-t C-m Display the last message. C-t V C-t C-V Display ratpoison's license. C-t w C-t C-w Display the list of managed windows. The current window is highlighted. C-t M-tab Switch to the last focused frame. C-t Q Kill all frames but the current one. C-t R Kill the current frame. This is a no-op if there is only one frame. C-t r C-t C-r Resize the current frame. C-t ? Display a help screen. C-t f C-t C-f select a frame by number. C-t F Indicate which frame is the current frame. C-t x C-t C-x Choose a frame and exchange the window in the current frame with the window in the chosen frame. -} -- | This list, duplicates and all is based off of -- <http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/doc/Default-Key-Bindings.html#Default Key Bindings>. ratpoisonKeys :: XConfig t -> Map (KeyMask, KeySym) (X ()) ratpoisonKeys conf@(XConfig {XMonad.modMask = m}) = M.fromList $ [ -- rebind standard -- actions -- this defines our root-key - mod-t ((m, xK_t), submap . M.fromList $ -- OK, now we can begin to list all -- the actual Ratpoison bindings -- which live in this submap. [ ((0, xK_n), next) , ((m, xK_n), next) , ((0, xK_space), next) , ((m, xK_space), next) , ((0, xK_Return), next) , ((m, xK_Return), next) , ((0, xK_p), previous) , ((m, xK_p), previous) , ((0, xK_k), kill) , ((m, xK_k), kill) , ((0, xK_K), kill) , ((m, xK_K), kill) , ((0, xK_c), spawn term) , ((m, xK_c), spawn term) , ((m, xK_exclam), prompt (term ++ " -e") defaultXPConfig) , ((0, xK_exclam), prompt ("/bin/sh" ++ " -c") defaultXPConfig) -- We call out to the shell because -- we can't use Main.hs's trick of -- "showVersion version" - we don't -- see Paths_xmonad , ((0, xK_v), version) , ((m, xK_v), version) , ((0, xK_l), refresh) , ((m, xK_l), refresh) -- This is wrong. , ((0, xK_s), sendMessage NextLayout) , ((m, xK_s), sendMessage NextLayout) , ((0 .|. shiftMask, xK_s), sendMessage NextLayout) , ((m .|. shiftMask, xK_s), sendMessage NextLayout) , ((0, xK_b), banish) , ((m, xK_b), banish) , ((0, xK_Right), sendMessage $ Go R) , ((0, xK_Left ), sendMessage $ Go L) , ((0, xK_Up ), sendMessage $ Go U) , ((0, xK_Down ), sendMessage $ Go D) , ((m, xK_Right), sendMessage $ Swap R) , ((m, xK_Left ), sendMessage $ Swap L) , ((m, xK_Up ), sendMessage $ Swap U) , ((m, xK_Down ), sendMessage $ Swap D) ] ++ [((0, k), windows $ f i) | (i, k) <- zip (XMonad.workspaces conf) [xK_1 .. xK_9] , (f, _) <- [(W.greedyView, 0), (W.shift, shiftMask)]] )] where next = windows W.focusDown previous = windows W.focusUp term = XMonad.terminal conf version = spawn "xmessage `xmonad --version`" banish :: X () banish = warpToWindow 1 1 -- lower right -- gwern Al E.O.D. Freedom Inmarsat 6 B43 ^X STARLAN FOSS NSRB

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X11 1.4.3 released
by Spencer Janssen 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

X11 1.4.3 has been released: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11-1.4.3 This version is now required due to gwern's "XPaste" patch. xmonad packagers should take steps to update to this new version in order to be ready for xmonad 0.9. Cheers, Spencer Janssen

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Problem CPP'ifying XSelection.hs
by Gwern Branwen 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

So per a suggestion from sjanssen, I was refactoring my XSelection.hs to optionally use the 'decode' from utf8-string. (When I originally was writing it, utf8-string wasn't even optionally available, so I had copied in the decode definition.) I finished editing, and everything looked dandy, but everytime I compiled, or loaded into GHCi (with :set -DUTF8), it fails to compile! And it fails to compile in a way that really perplexes me: Could not find module `Codec.Binary': Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. Line 34 reads: import Codec.Binary.UTF8.String (decode) Note that the two lines disagree on what is being imported... I tried reinstalling utf8-string and X11-xft, thinking perhaps that was the problem, but that is not it. I can load utf8-string modules fine in GHCi; I can swap out that import line for 'import Codec.Binary.Anythingelse', but the moment I use .Utf8.*, it fails. And I've looked over my changes several times, but it looks to me to be the same as the CPP usage in Fonts.hsc, for example; and if -DUTF8 isn't set, it works fine. I am a little stumped. I can't darcs send it because I don't know if the code is broken or not - it could just be my system. Find the patch attached. -- gwern Bluebird 5707 Kosovo Zemin XM Guppy Internet NVD ABC SGI

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darcs patch: +XMonad.Util.XPaste: a module for pastin... (and 1 more)
by gwern0＠gmail.com 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

Sat Sep 20 11:21:06 EDT 2008 gwern0(a)gmail.com * +XMonad.Util.XPaste: a module for pasting strings to windows Sat Sep 20 11:23:42 EDT 2008 gwern0(a)gmail.com * XPaste.hs: improve author info

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darcs patch: XMonad.Core: make spawn smarter
by gwern0＠gmail.com 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

Thu Aug 14 18:42:17 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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darcs patch: XMonad.Core: make spawn smarter
by gwern0＠gmail.com 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '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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Issue 221 in xmonad: Grabbing/releasing grab makes mouse inactive
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Issue 221: Grabbing/releasing grab makes mouse inactive http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=221 Comment #5 by m...(a)twifkak.com: Good luck. 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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