December 2009 - xmonad

xmonad 0.9.1: compatibility and minor bugfix release
by Spencer Janssen 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-0.9.1 http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib-0.9.1 This release is mostly for compatibility issues with X11 1.5.0.0. It also contains a few documentation fixes and one minor bug fix for forked processes. Cheers, xmonad team

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Persistant layouts
by alexholding＠lavabit.com 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Greetings! This is my first post to this list so please forgive me if its not written in a more apprreally appropriate style. How would i go about configuring a persistant layout across all workspaces? Maby a better question would be, where in the documentation does it outline doing this? What i have in mind is a mrxvt terminal spanning the bottom of the screen, and all my other windows opening and tiling above it, basically looking like this.. ----------------------- | | | ...please excuse the naff ascii art. I know | screen 1 | screen 2 | persistant layours are possible with xmonad, | | | to be honest thats why im wanting to use it ----------------------- over the other tiling wm's iv tried. | | | terminal | ----------------------- Iv just started using xmonad as im really keen to learn haskell, so i know what im asking is possible and could very well be an easy task if i fiddled about, but as im just starting out im a little lost as to how to go about implementing it. Any and all thoughts and suggestions welcome, again sorry if this post does not fit with the netiquette of this list. Alex

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Issue 351 in xmonad: Layout.SubLayouts doesn't return focus properly when closing modal dialog
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 351 by JoshBBall: Layout.SubLayouts doesn't return focus properly when closing modal dialog http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=351 What steps will reproduce the problem? 0. Configure XMonad to work with the default Layout.SubLayouts config as given in the documentation. 1. Go to an empty workspace. 2. Launch gnome-terminal. 3. Launch gedit. (can be launched however you like; either from the terminal window, or using dmenu) 4. You should have two windows, with gedit in the master position and gnome-terminal on the right (in Tall layout) 5. Click File...Open. 6. Press ESC. What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I expect the focus to go back to gedit, but instead it goes to gnome-terminal. What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? xmonad 0.9 A mix of Debian testing and unstable Linux localhost 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 04:47:08 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux X.Org X Server 1.6.4 xmonad is installed in userspace, using cabal, NOT using the Debian packages. In fact, ghc itself is also installed in userspace. The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.10.4 Are you using an xmonad.hs? Please attach it and the output of "xmonad --recompile". `xmonad --recompile` produces no output for me. Please provide any additional information below. Attachments: xmonad.hs 11.9 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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darcs patch: sorting of entries in X.Prompt.DirExec
by Juraj Hercek 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Hello, I've sent this patch some time ago: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2009-October/008948.html but it wasn't applied/accepted. Maybe because it had content disposition set to 'inline' instead of 'attachment'? I'm reattaching the same patch again, now with (hopefully) proper disposition header... Thanks, Juraj PS: If you reply, please do so via mailing list because our mail server accepts mail to my xmonad address only from haskell/xmonad mail list owner (spam reduction rules).

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Issue 352 in xmonad: Fail to build with ghc-6.12 on Arch
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 352 by wei.hoo: Fail to build with ghc-6.12 on Arch http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=352 What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Install ghc from [testing] 2. Install haskell-x11-darcs from AUR 3. Rebuild haskell-x11-xft from [community] 4. Build xmonad-darcs What is the expected output? What do you see instead? XMonad/Main.hsc:338:21: Couldn't match expected type `base:GHC.Word.Word8' against inferred type `Char' Expected type: KeyCode Inferred type: Char In the second argument of `(/=)', namely '\NUL' In the first argument of `when', namely `(kc /= '\NUL')' What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? Darcs. Arch Linux. Are you using an xmonad.hs? Please attach it and the output of "xmonad --recompile". Please provide any additional information 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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Issue 339 in xmonad: Support or workaround for toggling totem movie player fullscreen
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 14 Dec '09

14 Dec '09

Status: WontFix Owner: ---- Labels: Type-Enhancement Component-Contrib Priority-Low New issue 339 by wirtwolff: Support or workaround for toggling totem movie player fullscreen http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=339 From issue 333 comments #4 and #5: I'm running ubuntu 9.04 with xmonad from the repo and facing a similar issue with another player; Movie Player (GNOME). I think the way fullscreen works isn't correct. So far I've only been able to get rid of the red line around the window, but I still see the panel at the top. It's very annoying watching anything with the panel at the top. I need the panel so removing it isn't an option. -- This is in reference to the totem movie player, not the browser plugin gnome mplayer which works well with isFullscreen manageHook query. User had doFloat hook for the player. It is possible to instead doFullFloat the totem player to provide fullscreen without strut windows visible, however still the normal toggle commands don't work. Always full screening totem isn't an ideal solution, though, hence moving that report to this issue separate from the mplayer related Issue 333. I've not been able to find any references as to how totem attempts to request or implement fullscreen. Nor have I found any xmonad settings to support totem's fullscreen toggling. Closing this as won't fix for now. Prioritizing as low since other media players such as mplayer work well with xmonad. Please feel free to re-open with more data as to what totem is looking for from xmonad or patches to provide additional support for totem. -- 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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Help: How to disable font smoothing?
by Yuliang Wang 13 Dec '09

13 Dec '09

Hello everybody! I just moved from gnome to xmonad and think it's good. I prefer fonts not to be smoothed, so in gnome I use gnome-appearance-settings and set the smoothing option to 'none' (other options are 'gray scale' and 'subpixel'). How to configure those in xmonad? (By default, the fonts in firefox in xmonad are smoothed.), and how to set the background and text colors of applications in general? -- Sincerely, Yuliang Wang

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xmonad and ghc 6.12
by Brent Yorgey 13 Dec '09

13 Dec '09

So, let's talk about plans for xmonad and ghc 6.12. I am currently building xmonad and xmonad-contrib on ghc 6.12.1rc2 and it works fine, except I get a lot of warnings, which fall into three main categories: * Warnings about using base-3 instead of base-4. Currently xmonad doesn't build with base-4 because of the Exception vs. OldException thing. What's our plan for dealing with this? We should switch to using the extensible exception stuff, but how do we continue to support base-3? (*Should* we continue to support it?) * Warnings about redundant imports; apparently 6.12 is more aggressive about noticing these. These can be cleaned up, which is probably a good idea anyway. Or, if people don't like this for some reason, we can disable this warning. * Lots of warnings about actions which return something other than () but whose results are neither bound nor explicitly discarded. As discussed on IRC the right thing to do here is probably to just pass -fno-warn-unused-do-bind to ghc (as opposed to "fixing" all of these). Thoughts? -Brent

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darcs patch: X.A.GridSelect: documentation typo fix
by Tomas Janousek 12 Dec '09

12 Dec '09

Fri Dec 11 19:25:15 CET 2009 Tomas Janousek <tomi(a)nomi.cz> * X.A.GridSelect: documentation typo fix spotted by Justin on IRC -- Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Liskni_si, http://work.lisk.in/

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darcs patch: X.L.MouseResizableTile: change description for mirrore...
by Tomas Janousek 12 Dec '09

12 Dec '09

Fri Dec 11 13:42:18 CET 2009 Tomas Janousek <tomi(a)nomi.cz> * X.L.MouseResizableTile: change description for mirrored variant The description for mirrored MouseResizableTile is now "Mirror MouseResizableTile", to follow the standard of other layouts that can be mirrored using the Mirror modifier. -- Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Liskni_si, http://work.lisk.in/

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