January 2009 - xmonad

darcs patch: A mosaic layout based on MosaicAlt
by Adam Vogt 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

Fri Jan 23 20:06:08 EST 2009 Adam Vogt <vogt.adam(a)gmail.com> * A mosaic layout based on MosaicAlt The position of a window in the stack determines its position and layout. And the overall tendency to make wide or tall windows can be changed, though not all of the options presented by MosaicAlt can be reached, the layout changes with each aspect ratio message.

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Re: [xmonad] Downloading the config archive
by Gwern Branwen 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Wirt Wolff wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote: >> >> .... >> a repo on haskell.org or keep sending around tarballs, I decided to >> write a script using the mediawiki Haskell binding which would look up >> http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive and download all >> the xmonad.hs files for one to peruse at leisure. (This had the >> advantage of keeping configs centralized at that one page.) >> >> Unfortunately it turns out haskell.org doesn't support the MediaWiki >> API. Oops. So I wrote it using Tagsoup: >> .... >> >> I hope this will be useful for people interested at looking at large >> numbers of xmonad.hs files. > > > Nice! Thanks, gwern. Handy to have shell accessible configs so easily. As I > started discovering neat things perusing the files I found myself wondering > which files they belonged to, but also felt messing with fancier file naming > wouldn't be worth it. Anyhow, did tweak your program a little to include the > url > as a comment at the first line of the file. Figured others might want it so > hs file > is attached. Cool. I've added a section on it to here: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive#Downloading - -- gwern -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREKAAYFAkl7L04ACgkQvpDo5Pfl1oIQkgCcDMrh1We0jcnrxTb9v2GBkmO2 EVcAnjDkr1WOHfDwoNjDwbqnE1I9Tuvr =Ui4S -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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key binding to jump to a layout
by Chengqi(Lars) Song 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

hi, i want to define M-F1, M-F2... M-F6 to jump to my 1st, 2nd ... 6th layout. how to do that? thanks. lars

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Downloading the config archive
by Gwern Branwen 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hiya everyone. So once or twice people've asked for copies of my apparently rumored archive of xmonad.hss. Rather than check them into a repo on haskell.org or keep sending around tarballs, I decided to write a script using the mediawiki Haskell binding which would look up http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive and download all the xmonad.hs files for one to peruse at leisure. (This had the advantage of keeping configs centralized at that one page.) Unfortunately it turns out haskell.org doesn't support the MediaWiki API. Oops. So I wrote it using Tagsoup: import Text.HTML.Download (openURL) import Text.HTML.TagSoup (parseTags, Tag(TagOpen)) import Data.List (isInfixOf, isPrefixOf) import Control.Monad (liftM, zipWithM_) main :: IO () main = do urls "http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/?title=" ++ drop 13 x ++ "&action=raw") $ filter (isInfixOf "xmonad.hs") urls let hs = map (liftM filterXmonad . openURL) raws zipWithM_ (\x y -> writeFile x = String filterXmonad = unlines . takeWhile (not . isPrefixOf "") . drop 1 . dropWhile (not . isPrefixOf "") . lines extractURLs :: String -> [String] extractURLs arg = [x | TagOpen "a" atts ls ./ 10.hs 13.hs 16.hs 19.hs 21.hs 24.hs 27.hs 2.hs 32.hs 35.hs 38.hs 40.hs 43.hs 46.hs 5.hs 8.hs xmonad.hi 11.hs 14.hs 17.hs 1.hs 22.hs 25.hs 28.hs 30.hs 33.hs 36.hs 39.hs 41.hs 44.hs 47.hs 6.hs 9.hs xmonad.hs 12.hs 15.hs 18.hs 20.hs 23.hs 26.hs 29.hs 31.hs 34.hs 37.hs 3.hs 42.hs 45.hs 4.hs 7.hs xmonad xmonad.o (I decided that a more elaborate or accurate naming scheme was too much of a bother.) Caveats: this runs in your current directory. this assumes all scripts are kept in a subpage of 'Xmonad/Config archive'; eg [[Xmonad/Config archive/Gwern's Config.hs]] and not [[Gwern's Config.hs]]. this assumes that 'xmonad.hs' appears in the page title. Else it'll be discarded as an irrelevant link, and not followed. this assumes that there is a newline after the first and before the first this also assumes that the xmonad.hs will be in the first clause; the rest will be dropped. That said, this downloads over 40 files for me, so it can't be missing too many, and many of those files compile. I hope this will be useful for people interested at looking at large numbers of xmonad.hs files. - -- gwern -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREKAAYFAkl6ngIACgkQvpDo5Pfl1oJLMwCfftZTZivjPjec0k6Zzq4d6zvc 4qcAoJJu4m7/z1CgclJk369G1DAgqMvj =RQr9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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xterm/urxvt display problems
by pascal 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

Hi I have a shortcut for launching ncmpcpp (mpd client). When I use it for the first time in the session, the display is fine. But when I spawn it again I get some junk display, some areas of the screen are not refreshed, staying permanently. However if I laucnh ncmpcpp from an existing *term this problem disappears. Any ideas ? My spawn command is : ((modMask, xK_F1 ), spawn "/usr/bin/urxvt -rv -name ziq -e /usr/bin/ncmpcpp") I'm not even sure it's an xmonad related problem Pascal

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Issue 262 in xmonad: restarting Xmonad in quick succession causes errors
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 262 by sean.escriva: restarting Xmonad in quick succession causes errors http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=262 What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Press the default reload key binding (mod+q) at least twice in quick succession 2. error will be displayed in an xmessage window 3. xmonad still runs without issue. What is the expected output? What do you see instead? xmonad would restart What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? darcs, but presumably any 0.8.1 version with new --restart command Please provide any additional information below. The error message is: Error detected while loading xmonad configuration file: /home/sme/.xmonad/xmonad.hs on the commandline: Warning: -no-recomp is deprecated: Use -fforce-recomp instead /usr/bin/ld: reopening xmonad-x86_64-linux: Text file busy /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Text file busy collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Please check the file for errors. If this error is due to a module from XMonadContrib, please tag this issue with 'Component-Contrib' below. -- 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] spawn functions are not unicode safe
by Gwern Branwen 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Eric Mertens wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 12:04 -0500, Gwern Branwen wrote: > >> Perhaps we're over-thinking all this. Is it a problem in any way to >> run encodeString over a String that is just normal ASCII (that is, no >> funky Unicode)? >> >> Eric: could we just mindlessly call encodeString on everything going >> into spawn/safeSpawn? > > ASCII is valid UTF-8 encoded Unicode, however Latin1 is not. So as long > as you stick to ASCII (values less than 128) you can treat them as > UTF-8. > > ISO 8859-1 and ASCII Extended are not valid UTF-8, however (due to their > use of the values 128-255) > > Does this answer your question? If I'm understanding you, the answer is 'you can safely call encodeString on ASCII text, and UTF text, but you cannot on ISO8859-1 & ASCII Extended'. So we can either default to calling encodeString, checking whether it's ISO/Extended (and not calling encodeString if True); or we can default to not calling encodeString, and enabling it if a check for UTF returns true. I guess since Alexey has already provided a check for UTF, then we should probably use the latter strategy. - -- gwern -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREKAAYFAklvv9QACgkQvpDo5Pfl1oIYWACcCJclUot9NbxFmQLjdckDwc4H fN0AoJfpM3bD44z7rKHsbEYF8H/7Y9xY =Niw2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Issue 261 in xmonad: Fullscreen flash movie fails
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Updates: Status: Accepted Comment #3 on issue 261 by dons00: Fullscreen flash movie fails http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=261 Started appearing since 0.8.1 -- 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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Error message when launching Firefox
by Ricardo Martins 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Hi everyone. Since yesterday I've been receiving an error dialog when launching Firefox. It says "An error occured while loading or saving configuration information for firefox. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly". Clicking on a "Details" button gives me the following: "GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to execute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session)" This happens only when launching firefox from a keybinding or through dmenu (also launched from a keybinding). I'm using the xmonad darcs from yesterday (19). xmonad 0.8.1 doesn't suffer from this problem nor do other WMs (openbox and awesome), so I guess it's due to something that changed between 0.8.1 and yesterday. Launching firefox in the affected version from a terminal also has no problems. The last three darcs builds I used were from 2009-01-12 (no problems), 2009-01-17 (I'm not sure if it had problems, since I usually suspend my laptop without rebooting or relaunching X for a few days) and 2009-01-19 (the problematic build). I'd test the latest code, but I'm having trouble accessing the darcs repository. Regards, -- Ricardo Martins * scarybox.net * GPG key: 0x1308F1B4

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cheatsheet?
by Don Stewart 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Would someone like to make a cheatsheet for the default bindings? Like: http://www.viemu.com/vi-vim-cheat-sheet.gif Perhaps?

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