September 2008 - xmonad

Can I configure right Alt key in xmonad?
by Mauricio 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

Hi, Is it possible to get the right Alt in my keyboard to behave like the left one? Or can I set that using some program I could call from xmonad.hs? Thanks, Maurício

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modMask + q not reloading xmonad
by Matt Brown 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

Hello all, I'm brand new to xmonad, and having a great time with it. There have been a few problems, though, that I can't seem to figure out. The first is that modMask+q does not reload xmonad, like I read somewhere it should. It doesn't pop up an xmessage error window, either. There is no indication that anything is happening (at least none I am aware of), other than the q is not sent to the active X client (which implies it's bound to something, right?). Any ideas? thanks -Matt Brown

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Possible Bug: Floating window above tabbed workspace
by Dominik Bruhn 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

Hy, I got a possible bug, can please someone try to reproduce so I can fill a bugreport: 1. Get a workspace, layout doesnt matter (I call it "1") 2. Get a workspace with a tabbed layout (I call it "2") 3. Open 2 Windows on workspace "2" (I take a evince and a firefox) 4. Open a terminal on workspace "1" 5. Start an mplayer with a video-file on workspace "1" 6. Move the floating video-window over to workspace "2" (mod+shift+2) 7. Make the second tab in the workspace active. 8. Move the mouse into the floating movie-window Bug now: When moving into the floating movie window the tab in the background is changed to the first tab. I think this shouldnt happen and is quite anoying if you try to watch a movie while surfing in the internet and everytime you move your mouse to the movie-window the tabs switch. Can anybody reproduce? I can record a movie if its not clear what to do. Thanks -- Dominik Bruhn mailto: dominik(a)dbruhn.de

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Displaying the window name
by Bruce Stephens 16 Sep '08

16 Sep '08

Is there some unobtrusive way to see window names? I'm imagining something like the workspace name displaying that (I think) WindowMaker has: as you change to a workspace, its name appears in the centre and fairly quickly fades. I know xmonad has various tabbing feature, but after years of using window managers with lots of decoration I'm rather enjoying having almost none, so using one of those would be a regression. I only rarely want to know a window's name, and on those occasions using xprop is adequate, but it would be nice to have something more convenient, something that displays the window name in the top left hand corner of the window momentarily when focus changes to it, say. (I guess I could build something myself either using an xmonad hook, or using an external application and a dynamic log, but my guess is there's some program already written that'll do it, or someone else will have coded it already, and probably better than I can do it.)

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patch: WindoGo raiseMaster, raiseAndDo, runOrRaiseMaster, runOrRaiseAndDo
by Sean McEligot 16 Sep '08

16 Sep '08

This patch addes the following commands to WindowGo. raiseMaster, raiseAndDo, runOrRaiseMaster, runOrRaiseAndDo I wanted to have the Window raised to the master window after after being found, so I created raiseMaster, and runOrRaiseMaster. I then created more generic versions called raiseAndDo, and runOrRaiseAndDo, so that other things could be done to the raised window. examples: , ((mod4Mask, xK_m), raiseMaster (runInTerm "-title mutt" "zsh -c 'mutt -f=Inbox'") (title =? "mutt")) , ((mod4Mask, xK_b), runOrRaiseMaster "iceweasel" (className =? "Iceweasel")) I spoke to Brent Yorgey <http://byorgey.wordpress.com/> on #xmonad about this.

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darcs patch: Add missing space between dzen command and flags
by Daniel Neri 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

Mon Sep 15 15:10:09 CEST 2008 Daniel Neri <daniel.neri(a)sigicom.com> * Add missing space between dzen command and flags

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New website is up!
by Devin Mullins 14 Sep '08

14 Sep '08

Howdy, folks, http://xmonad.org/ displays new hotness, thanks to the hard work of, well, me, and some support from some other people like dons, who put his bad self up on youtube, and folkses who provided feedback. I'm looking for: * people to make sure everything works (no 404s) * testing in lots o' browsers (i only have fx2, fx3, and safari on hand) * feedback re: how well you can find things, know where to look for them, understand the layout of the site, etc. * cool screencasts that we can shove in the video section * suggestions for content, organization, design, ... (especially easy ones) * ... ? Also, please keep filling out the install wikipage. xmonad.org/download.html is pretty crazy, and it'd be nice to simplify that by pointing to platform-specific instructions. Thanks to all involved (especially me!) and dons & sjanssen for giving their final thumbs. Devin

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darcs patch: web site overhaul (now with testimonials!) (and 6 more)
by Devin Mullins 14 Sep '08

14 Sep '08

Okay, update. I took care of the narrow browsers (sort of). Now, TODO: - Come up with a proper tagline. After wiki: - Put links in the Instructions. - Revamp download page to point to the wiki. I'm done for now. Sat Sep 13 23:46:44 PDT 2008 Devin Mullins <me(a)twifkak.com> * web site overhaul (now with testimonials!) More patches coming as I tweak things. Sat Sep 13 23:48:44 PDT 2008 Devin Mullins <me(a)twifkak.com> * oops, fix some broken links Sat Sep 13 23:52:11 PDT 2008 Devin Mullins <me(a)twifkak.com> * vertical-align: middle the badges Sun Sep 14 00:15:19 PDT 2008 Devin Mullins <me(a)twifkak.com> * add .htaccess with RewriteRules This only works on an Apache server... hopefully that's what xmonad.org's got running. (Also, needs testing.) Sun Sep 14 01:01:00 PDT 2008 Devin Mullins <me(a)twifkak.com> * added in missing Features content Sun Sep 14 01:09:10 PDT 2008 Devin Mullins <me(a)twifkak.com> * simplify and lowercase doc links Sun Sep 14 01:25:21 PDT 2008 Devin Mullins <me(a)twifkak.com> * some cheap hacks to make narrow browsers slightly less sucky boo, css.

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darcs patch: web site overhaul (now with testimonials!) (and 5 more)
by Devin Mullins 14 Sep '08

14 Sep '08

As usual, see a preview at: http://xmonad.twifkak.com/ What's left TODO: - Make screenshots / videos sections look better on narrower browser windows. - Come up with a proper tagline. - Put links in the Instructions. - Revamp download page to point to the wiki. The latter two depend on the new wiki pages being filled out. Sat Sep 13 23:46:44 PDT 2008 Devin Mullins <me(a)twifkak.com> * web site overhaul (now with testimonials!) More patches coming as I tweak things. Sat Sep 13 23:48:44 PDT 2008 Devin Mullins <me(a)twifkak.com> * oops, fix some broken links Sat Sep 13 23:52:11 PDT 2008 Devin Mullins <me(a)twifkak.com> * vertical-align: middle the badges Sun Sep 14 00:15:19 PDT 2008 Devin Mullins <me(a)twifkak.com> * add .htaccess with RewriteRules This only works on an Apache server... hopefully that's what xmonad.org's got running. (Also, needs testing.) Sun Sep 14 01:01:00 PDT 2008 Devin Mullins <me(a)twifkak.com> * added in missing Features content Sun Sep 14 01:09:10 PDT 2008 Devin Mullins <me(a)twifkak.com> * simplify and lowercase doc links

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Requesting help re: install instructions
by Devin Mullins 14 Sep '08

14 Sep '08

Hi, so, revamping xmonad web site, realizing our download/install instructions are kind of scattered. Right now, we have links to online package databases for existing OSes. If would be great if we had actual instructions for each. So, I'm asking you, fellow xmonad users, to help parallel process this problem and contribute sections of text. Bonus points for researching the obscure OSes that nobody actually uses. I created a wiki page at http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Installing_xmonad and contributed some examples to get started. Let's fill this thing in! I also created a stub page for configuring your display manager at http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Configuring_your_login_manager Hopefully this is a platform-agnostic thing. If not, I suppose we'll need to inline some of those instructions into the rebellious platforms on the first wikipage, and then leave this page as generic instructions for the rest.

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