January 2009 - xmonad

New layout in GridVariants
by Norbert Zeh 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

After using GridVariants.TallGrid for a while, I got fed up with the fact that the meaning of columns and rows get exchanged when TallGrid is rotated using Mirror (as well as with other small nuisances). The attached patch contains a new layout, GridVariants.SplitGrid, which allows the orientation of the split between the master and the slave grid to be specified as a parameter, thus doing away with the need to use Mirror or Reflect with this layout. What SplitGrid and TallGrid do should be achievable using the standard Grid layout plus a layout combinator. However, the automatic assignment of clients to the master/slave grids would require more plumbing in xmonad.hs, which is why I opted for writing this as a separate layout. Cheers, Norbert

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darcs patch: Make X an instance of Typeable
by Daniel Schoepe 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

This patch lets X derive Typeable so that expressions that return an X action can be interpreted in a type-safe way using hint(to allow runtime evaluation of haskell expressions in the context of the running xmonad). Wed Jan 28 22:54:06 CET 2009 Daniel Schoepe <asgaroth_(a)gmx.de> * Make X an instance of Typeable New patches: [Make X an instance of Typeable Daniel Schoepe <asgaroth_(a)gmx.de>**20090128215406 Ignore-this: bb155e62ea4e451460e3b94508dc49d2 ] hunk ./XMonad/Core.hs 128 -- newtype X a = X (ReaderT XConf (StateT XState IO) a) #ifndef __HADDOCK__ - deriving (Functor, Monad, MonadIO, MonadState XState, MonadReader XConf) + deriving (Functor, Monad, MonadIO, MonadState XState, MonadReader XConf, Typeable) #endif instance Applicative X where Context: [Add uninstallSignalHandlers, use in spawn Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20090122002643 Ignore-this: d91bde6f965341a2619fe2dde83cc099 ] [Create a new session for forked processes Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20090122000423 Ignore-this: f5d9cf254a0b07ddbf204457b7783880 ] [TAG 0.8.1 Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20090118083910] [Close stdin in spawned processes Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20090117040024 Ignore-this: 2e372ed6215160adae8da1c44cdede3d ] [Document spawnPID Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20090117035907 Ignore-this: 1641bdcf5055b2ec7b9455265f5b1d52 ] [Asynchronously recompile/restart xmonad on mod-q Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20090117035300 Ignore-this: 753d8746034f818b81df79003ae5ee0d ] [Add --restart, a command line flag to cause a running xmonad process to restart Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20090117034959 Ignore-this: 45c8c8aba7cc7391b95c7e3fb01e5bf9 ] [Bump version to 0.8.1 Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20090116223621 Ignore-this: 2e8e9dc7b6ca725542f4afe04253dc57 ] [Remove doubleFork, handle SIGCHLD Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20090116204742 Ignore-this: f9b1a65b4f0622922f80ad2ab6c5a52f This is a rather big change. Rather than make spawned processes become children of init, we handle them in xmonad. As a side effect of this change, we never need to use waitForProcess in any contrib module -- in fact, doing so will raise an exception. The main benefit to handling SIGCHLD is that xmonad can now be started with 'exec', and will correctly clean up after inherited child processes. ] [Main.hs: escape / in Haddocks gwern0@gmail.com**20081207020915 Ignore-this: 2c4525280fbe73c46f3abd8fc13628e9 This lets haddocks for Main.hs, at least, to build with 2.3.0. ] [More flexible userCode function Daniel Schoepe <asgaroth_(a)gmx.de>**20090110221852] [Call logHook as the very last action in windows Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20081209233700 Ignore-this: 4396ad891b607780f8e4b3b6bbce87e ] [Accept inferior crossing events. This patch enables fmouse-focus-follows-screen Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20081205045130 Ignore-this: 3ac329fb92839827aed0a4370784cabd ] [Tile all windows at once Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20081118074447] [Factor rational rect scaling into a separate function Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20081118072849] [Change screen focus by clicking on the root window. Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20081106224031 This is a modification of a patch from Joachim Breitner. ] [Fix #192. Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20081021220059] [select base < 4 for building on ghc 6.10 Adam Vogt <vogt.adam(a)gmail.com>**20081013214509] [add killWindow function Joachim Breitner <mail(a)joachim-breitner.de>**20081005001804 This is required to kill anything that is not focused, without having to focus it first. ] [add'l documentation Devin Mullins <me(a)twifkak.com>**20080927234639] [Regression: ungrab buttons on *non* root windows Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20081007214351] [Partial fix for #40 Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20081007212053 Improvements: - clicking on the root will change focus to that screen - moving the mouse from a window on a screen to an empty screen changes focus to that screen The only remaining issue is that moving the mouse between two empty screens does not change focus. In order to solve this, we'd have to select motion events on the root window, which is potentially expensive. ] [Track mouse position via events received Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20081007203953] [Fix haddock Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20081007094641] [Move screen locating code into pointScreen Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20081007094207] [Make pointWithin a top-level binding Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20081007090229] [sp README, CONFIG, STYLE, TODO gwern0@gmail.com**20080913024457] [Use the same X11 dependency as xmonad-contrib Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20080921061508] [Export focusUp' and focusDown' -- work entirely on stacks Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20080911214803] [add W.shiftMaster, fix float/tile-reordering bug Devin Mullins <me(a)twifkak.com>**20080911053909] [TAG 0.8 Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com>**20080905195412] Patch bundle hash: 0a0f2945747d8fa660487df2b4967f984faf54ad

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Making utility windows "dock like"
by Gregory Maxwell 01 Feb '09

01 Feb '09

I've been using xmonad with great success with my thinkpad x61 tablet. Although xmonad is so keyboard focused it still works quite well without one— so long as the compromise of a panel desktop switcher is used (I'm using gnome-panel). One issue I haven't solved yet is cellwriter (http://risujin.org/cellwriter/) According to xprop cellwriter is a "utility window", not a dock, and doesn't provide the struts field, even when it is set to dock mode. As a result, when I unhide it using the notification icon it pops up as a float in the middle of my screen. What I'd like to do is treat it as a dock: Accept the size it assumes, force it to bottom of the screen (just above my existing panel), and prevent anything from overlapping it or it from overlapping anything (shrinking the tiled area as a result). I expect that other people might find the same kind of behavior useful for things like calculators, but perhaps not— since it wouldn't be important to have a calculator on all workspaces. :) Can someone point me to some starting points on how I can get it to behave this way?

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Support for OpenSolaris?
by kompulsive 01 Feb '09

01 Feb '09

Is anyone out there using Xmonad in OpenSolaris? How is working out? I'd really like to use it on my OpenSolaris machine.

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Question re Layout.MagicFocus
by David Cabana 01 Feb '09

01 Feb '09

I've recently started using Layout.MagicFocus. It's brilliant, I love it. But there is just one thing... I still use a mouse, and should the mouse pointer happen to drift out of the master window, all hell breaks loose as the focus repeatedly changes in a wicked loop. Switching layouts will break out of the loop, but it is annoying to have to do so. I have tried setting focusFollowsMouse to False, with no effect. Has anyone encountered this problem, or have a solution? Thank you, drc

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Issue 268 in xmonad: U.Run.runProcessWithInputAndWait calls waitForProcess
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 01 Feb '09

01 Feb '09

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 268 by wirtwolff: U.Run.runProcessWithInputAndWait calls waitForProcess http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=268 What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Ensure error output is logged or visible. 2. On darcs xmonad run the ff xmonad.hs and create urgent windows, or use the keybinding for dzenWithArgs. Or use runProcessWithInputAndWait action somewhere. Expect function to start a process and kill it after timeout, with no error output unless something really is in error. Instead, raises exceptions, but does the right thing and doesn't crash. ---- -- runProcessWithInputAndWait calls waitForProcess -- import XMonad.Util.Run (runProcessWithInputAndWait) import XMonad import XMonad.Util.EZConfig -- Create some hidden urgent windows, -- or press mod-F12 to trigger errors. -- | only call to runProcessWithInputAndWait in xmc import XMonad.Util.Dzen -- (dzenWithArgs) -- | only call to dzenWithArgs -- (or its U.Dzen variants) in xm contrib import XMonad.Hooks.UrgencyHook modKey = mod1Mask main = do xmonad $ -- dzenUrgencyHook calls dzenWithArgs when urgents, yields -- xmon*: waitForProcess: does not exist (No child processes) withUrgencyHook dzenUrgencyHook { args = ["-bg", "darkgreen"] } $ defaultConfig { modMask = modKey } `additionalKeys` [ ((modKey, xK_F12), utilDzenBadness) ] utilDzenBadness = dzenWithArgs " Calls runProcessWithInputAndWait" ["-ta", "l", "-bg","darkorange","-fg","black"] 2000000 ---- Component-Contrib -- 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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darcs patch: FixedColumn, add missing nmaster to the usage doc
by Ismael Carnales 31 Jan '09

31 Jan '09

This pach adds the missing nmaster param to the usage of the FixedColumn contrib module. byebye!

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another patch: modifies selection
by Yaakov Nemoy 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

Hey List, Here's another patch. It modifies the XSelection module so you can pass a string modifying function to the promptSelect functions. This lets you run your own escape routines for various reasons. -Yaakov

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Issue 265 in xmonad: Scrambled Firefox windows with CSS background image
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

Comment #2 on issue 265 by gareth.m...@pobox.com: Scrambled Firefox windows with CSS background image http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=265 Very wise. It turns out that FF3 breaks for me in the same way with multiple other window managers, so this is almost certainly nothing to do with xmonad. My apologies for the noise. In case anyone else with a similar problem stumbles across this, it currently looks as if upgrading to x.org 7.4 has fixed it, but that upgrade has required me to change a bunch of other things so maybe one of them deserves the credit. -- 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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view workspace key shortcuts
by Kathryn Andersen 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

This is probably a stupid question, and I expect you xmonad hackers will know the answer in an instant. I have workspaces which are called by a mix of names and numbers, like so: myWorkspaces = ["www", "2", "3", "mail", "gimp"] ++ map show [6..9] Now, I know we already have default keymappings which allow you to quickly view (or send windows to) workspaces by their number. So, yes, I can already type Mod-1 and get to the "www" workspace, Mod-4 and get to the "mail" workspace. And, yes, I already have the Xmonad.Actions.Commands plugin installed, which I have set up to give a menu of workspaces when one hits the right key-combo. However, what I would like to do is have a simple key-combo which will get me *directly* to a given workspace, such as Mod4-m to take me to the "mail" workspace, and so on; I want to be able to have meaningful shortcuts, not just numbers. But I haven't been able to figure out what the correct command is to bind to the keymap. I've made guesses, but they're all illegal Haskell; no surprise, because I don't know Haskell. (Some day, but not now). I mean, I know I need to add someCommand to my key-list, but what? , ((mod4Mask, xK_m), someCommand someOptions) Help? Kathryn Andersen -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen <http://www.katspace.com> / \ | \_.--.*/ | GenFicCrit mailing list <http://www.katspace.com/gen_fic_crit/> v | ------------| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | -> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe

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