October 2009 - xmonad

should keyboard focus and window management focus be separate?
by Geoff Reedy 24 Oct '09

24 Oct '09

The discussion around the patch for issue 177 is leading me to suspect that xmonad may need to have different focus indicators for keyboard focus and window management focus. Most of the time, there'd be no difference but when a window is offered focus with WM_TAKE_FOCUS it might decline to take focus or even place the focus within a different top level window. It is desirable, however, to treat the window as the focused window for the purposes of window manipulation. Does anyone know if any other tiling window managers have tackelled this issue and what they do in this case? -- Geoff Reedy

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darcs patch: Correct formatting in manpage (and 1 more)
by Adam Vogt 24 Oct '09

24 Oct '09

Sat Oct 24 16:07:48 EDT 2009 Adam Vogt <vogt.adam(a)gmail.com> * Correct formatting in manpage Sat Oct 24 16:09:20 EDT 2009 Adam Vogt <vogt.adam(a)gmail.com> * Grab the xmonad.cabal version for putting into the manpage

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xmonad 0.9 release candidate
by Spencer Janssen 24 Oct '09

24 Oct '09

xmonad 0.9 release candidates are up! http://xmonad.org/xmonad-0.8.1.20091024.tar.gz http://xmonad.org/xmonad-contrib-0.8.1.20091024.tar.gz The plan is to release about 24 hours from now. Please test these, and let us know about any issues you discover. Cheers, Your friendly neighborhood xmonad team

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Issue 320 in xmonad: Make --version more informative
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 24 Oct '09

24 Oct '09

Status: Accepted Owner: dons00 New issue 320 by dons00: Make --version more informative http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=320 We use xmonad --version to help diagnose bugs and problems. However, it is too terse. What would be more useful are the GHC version, arch/os combination, and whether particular X11 flags are set (maybe even all flags set at configure time). Possibly this would be a --verbose-version flag. Code to detect the GHC version and print it is available from Cabal. -- 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: README Update to point to wiki changelog, prettify
by Wirt Wolff 24 Oct '09

24 Oct '09

Sat Oct 24 14:35:50 MDT 2009 Wirt Wolff <wirtwolff(a)gmail.com> * README Update to point to wiki changelog, prettify

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darcs patch: man_xmonad.hs Add notes to EwmhDesktops users
by Wirt Wolff 24 Oct '09

24 Oct '09

Fri Oct 23 11:27:42 MDT 2009 Wirt Wolff <wirtwolff(a)gmail.com> * man_xmonad.hs Add notes to EwmhDesktops users Since layoutHook, handleEventHook, logHook, startupHook have changed, and ewmhDesktopsLayoutHook modifier *must* be removed, explain what users should do. Also refer to the EwmhDesktops hooks by name in case users prefer not to use the 'ewmh' function to modify config as a whole.

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darcs patch: New Layout X.L.MultiColumns
by Anders Engstrom 24 Oct '09

24 Oct '09

Sat Oct 24 19:51:55 CEST 2009 Anders Engstrom <ankaan(a)gmail.com> * New Layout X.L.MultiColumns New layout inspired the realization that I was switching between Mirror Tall and Mirror ThreeCol depending on how many windows there were on the workspace. This layout will make those changes automatically.

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forkIO & xmonad
by Nils 24 Oct '09

24 Oct '09

Hi there, I'm trying to write a little status bar extension, which allows X.U.Loggers (and other) to be piped into dzen2 which then gets updated every X seconds (the dynamicLogHooks update only after an xmonad event). So I thought, forkIO with a threadDelay should do the job, but something weird happened. The code is: http://paste.n-sch.de/0y/hs Then run it with: > main = do > runStatusbar $ defaultStatusBar "dzen" > xmonad $ ... If I start xmonad like this, the forked process stops after a short amount of time and continues only when I hit some xmonad-keybindings (even that happens pretty random). For example, if I remove the threadDelay from the previous code, you would expect to have a never ending counter in your dzen bar. But it starts counting up to about 10000, stops and waits for some input and (maybe) continues counting for another 1000 or 2000. Can anyone see why xmonad acts like this with forkIO? Thanks, Nils / McManiaC

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darcs patch: Doc namespace minor updates
by Wirt Wolff 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Fri Oct 23 12:49:05 MDT 2009 Wirt Wolff <wirtwolff(a)gmail.com> * Doc namespace minor updates Most signifigant changes are use unversioned links to external html, fix a couple of key binding examples, and double quotes that should have been single.

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xmonad 0.9 freeze, release schedule
by Spencer Janssen 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

We're preparing the long-awaited release of xmonad 0.9! Here's the time-table: - Thursday, Oct 22: repository freeze - Friday, Oct 23: release candidate packaged and published - Sunday, Oct 25: xmonad 0.9 release The feature freeze takes place immediately. Until the 0.9 release, please apply only documentation, important bug fixes, and packaging changes to the repositories. Between now and Sunday, we'll be working on a release announcement. Please reply with any important new features, bug fixes and compatibility notes that you'd like to see in this announcement. Thanks, xmonad team

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