October 2009 - xmonad

darcs patch: X.L.MultiCol constructor 0 NWin bugfig
by Anders Engstrom 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Thu Oct 29 11:56:33 CET 2009 Anders Engstrom <ankaan(a)gmail.com> * X.L.MultiCol constructor 0 NWin bugfig Fix bug where the constructor did not accept catch-all columns. Also some minor cleaning.

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Positioning a Floating Window
by Ones Self 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Hi, I was wondering if there's a way to set the absolute position of a float window when it is initially created? Thanks, -- "I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant" -- Alan Greenspan

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Using TwoPane
by Magnus Therning 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

This is a question that might have been answered already, but I can't seem to find an answer for it. I often have more than two windows on a screen, and on occasion I want to pick two of these and put them next to each other, for this reason I have TwoPane in the my layout sequence. However I often find it cumbersome to work with, because the displayed windows keep on changing when I switch focus between windows. Here's a simple example of what I mean, with the following layout: myLayout = tall12 ||| twoPane where tall12 = Tall tall12_nmaster tall12_delta tall12_ratio tall12_nmaster = 1 -- num of windows in the master pane tall12_ratio = 1/2 -- proportion of screen occupied by master pane tall12_delta = 3/100 -- percent of screen to increment by when resizing twoPane = TwoPane twoPane_delta twoPane_ratio twoPane_ratio = 1/2 -- proportion of screen occupied by master pane twoPane_delta = 3/100 -- percent of screen to increment by when resizing I start three terminals, t1, t2 and t3, I then switch to TwoPane and have a screen showing t1 and t2 (t1|t2). What I want is to have t1 next to t3, so I jump through the windows until I have t1|t3. However, if I now want to switch focus to t1 I can't seem do that without changing what windows are visible, however I do it I end up with t1|t2. What I have to do is get t3 over to the master area, then jump through until I have t3|t1. I have to redo the same steps if I after that want to switch focus to t3. Is there a way around this (except the obvious one which would be to move t2 to another workspace)? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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darcs patch: X.H.Managehelpers, added currentWs a query that returns the current workspace
by Ismael Carnales 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

currentWs is useful for doing this like swapDown on a specific workspace like: currentWs =? "1" --> doF W.swapDown byebye!

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Keep a specific window always as a master window
by Damian 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi, I would like to keep firefox always as a main window, so that, for instance when I open the downloads window it will be shown as a small window. Is there any way to do this in xmonad? Thanks in advance, Damian.

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Issue 70 in xmonad: Extension request: Command to open a temporary window manager, or replace XMonad with a different one
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Comment #4 on issue 70 by vogt.adam: Extension request: Command to open a temporary window manager, or replace XMonad with a different one http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=70 gwern's correction fixes xmonad serialization across the other wm: > #!/bin/sh > openbox > xmonad "$@" -- 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 4 in xmonad: Separate focus for tiled and floating layers
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Comment #15 on issue 4 by liskni.si: Separate focus for tiled and floating layers http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=4 This also makes transients in the mentioned modes (full, tabbed, ...) nearly unusable. -- 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 70 in xmonad: Extension request: Command to open a temporary window manager, or replace XMonad with a different one
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Updates: Status: Fixed Comment #3 on issue 70 by vogt.adam: Extension request: Command to open a temporary window manager, or replace XMonad with a different one http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=70 The newwm ratpoison command is exactly `restart'. tmpwm can also be done using restart, albeit without serialization of xmonad state. $HOME/bin/obtoxmd > #!/bin/sh > openbox > xmonad And I have a binding in my config: > ,("M-S-b", restart "/home/aavogt/bin/obtoxmd" False) One suggestion I have is that restart, or a variant of it should use System.Cmd.system instead of System.Cmd.rawSystem, so that one could skip writing the shell script. > ,("M-S-b", restart "openbox; xmonad" False) There should be a way to get xmonad state to restore over the swap, but in my short experimentation I didn't figure out a variation on obtoxmd that feeds xmonad the old serialized state successfully. $HOME/bin/obtoxmd -- serialization failure > #!/bin/sh > openbox > xmonad $* That script would be run with the action `restart "/home/aavogt/bin/obtoxmd" True', but it doesn't work. I'm sure somebody can figure out a variation that does work. A very related feature can be found in the XMonad.Util.Replace module in 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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Issue 232 in xmonad: SetWMName does not seem to be sucessfull
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Updates: Status: Fixed Comment #10 on issue 232 by vogt.adam: SetWMName does not seem to be sucessfull http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=232 This patch (included in 0.9) pushes the setWMName call in ewmhDesktops to the startup hook, so setWMName "LG3D" should do the right thing at any order in the logHook: Sun Oct 11 01:35:38 EDT 2009 Justin Bogner <mail(a)justinbogner.com> * Move EWMH support initialization to a startupHook Set EWMH support atoms and the window manager name in a startup hook, rather than in the log hook: the log hook occurs far too frequently for it to make sense to set constants with it. -- 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 321 in xmonad: Use pandoc to generate the manpage
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Updates: Status: Patch Owner: SpencerJanssen Labels: Component-Core Comment #1 on issue 321 by vogt.adam: Use pandoc to generate the manpage http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=321 Attached is a patch that makes these changes. It might be worth noting that this probably makes util/GenerateManpage.hs gpl (since it uses pandoc). Some of the related changes in the bundle (for xmonad.cabal and Setup.lhs) are pretty independent of this actual issue, so they could be left out. Attachments: use-pandoc-to-convert-a-markdown-manpage-tranlation-to-html-and-man_.dpatch 23.5 KB -- 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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