February 2009 - xmonad

Article about xmonad not making X errors?
by Joseph Garvin 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

I recall reading at some point an article or blog post that discussed how XMonad leveraged the type system to guarantee that X errors couldn't occur. But no matter how much googling I do now I can't find it; I musn't be using the right search terms. Anyone know where it is?

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darcs patch: H.DynamicLog: Add format strippers for xmobar and dzen
by Wirt Wolff 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

As shepheb plans to feature urgency hooks in an upcoming 'Pimp your XMonad', it seemed time to submit these, although I can't shake the feeling that there should be a better way to write them, even sticking to base libs. They allow removing ppHidden formatting to independently format ppUrgent. I'm reasonably sure they're correct, at least passed all my test cases. Many thanks to b4taylor for writing the first iteration of stripDzen, showing me how to use span properly. (p.s. this patch is huge compared to others even though it's perhaps only 30 lines changed. Is that because I attached manually rather than just darcs send-ing?) regards, -- wmw

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Real Tabbing?
by Dominik Bruhn 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

Hy, is there any chance we might get real tabbing support in xmonad? Ill try to explain what I mean by that: I often use the "Tall" Layout. It would be nice If I could take any frame and apply a tabbed layout on it so that I can open several windows within that frame and get some tabs. Currently I cant get this behaviour because I have to select the frames where I want tabbing uppon compiletime and there is no keybinding for switching the tabs. So what I'm searching for is: 1. A Keystroke which makes the current frame tabbed 2. A possibility to shift a window into a frame (so it gets another tab) and out again. 3. The current Keybindings like Mod+{j,k} stay the same, they dont switch tabs. 4. New Keybindings for moving to the next tab in the current frame. Is it possible at all? I'm not into the xmonad sourcecode but perhaps the stack-set datastructure is not the right choice for this features. Perhaps some developers can tell about this. This is the only feature which im missing and which could make me go to ion3 because everytime I see a ion3 I love this feature. So, lets discuss! -- Dominik Bruhn mailto: dominik(a)dbruhn.de

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Issue 272 in xmonad: layout updates lazily (visible in gnome pager)
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 272 by j...@kitenet.net: layout updates lazily (visible in gnome pager) http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=272 What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. use xmonad with gnome pager 2. move a window to a different workspace than the current one 3. see lazy layout update in pager What is the expected output? What do you see instead? (This is a minor problem.) It seems that xmonad updates workspace layouts lazily; if the workspace is not visible, the layout does not change when new windows enter it. That's ok, except the gnome pager displays mini views of each workspace, and this lazy updating is visible in them. When a window moves to a non-visible workspace, the pager will show it floating over the other windows in that workspace, at the size and position it occupied previously. Switch to that workspace and the layout finally gets updated, with the new window tiled in (or whatever). What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? 0.8 on debian unstable Please provide any additional information below. 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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Changing focus with alt-tab as in Windows
by Alex Samokhvalov 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Hello, is it possible to configure xmonad, to move the focus with alt-tab exactly as in Windows? As far as I could understand, only keyPress events are dispatched. But it seems keyUp events are required for this. Or maybe there are much more simpler solutions? Regards Alex

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Use regexps for className matching?
by Henri Ducrocq 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

For example className =? "Google Mail" --> doShift "1" className =? "Google Calendar" --> doShift "1" would become className <some regexp matching operator> "Google .*" doShift "1" How to do this in Haskell? I couldn't find any examples of this in the config archive.. Henri

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cannot build latest xmonad: unknown symbol
by David Cabana 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

Today I tried to build xmonad from the latest darcs source, and got an error message I don't understand. Here's the terminal session: drc@tangerine:~/local/haskell/xmonad$ darcs pull Pulling from "http://code.haskell.org/xmonad"... No remote changes to pull in! drc@tangerine:~/local/haskell/xmonad$ runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --user --prefix=$HOME Setup.lhs: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.1/directory-1.0.0.2/HSdirectory-1.0.0.2.o: unknown symbol `unixzm2zi3zi1zi0_SystemziPosixziDirectory_a12_info' Setup.lhs: Setup.lhs: unable to load package `directory-1.0.0.2' --- Here's my ghc version: drc@tangerine:~/local/haskell/xmonad$ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.10.1 --- Here's what I have installed: drc@tangerine:~/local/haskell/xmonad$ ghc-pkg list /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.1/./package.conf: Cabal-1.6.0.1, array-0.2.0.0, base-3.0.3.0, base-4.0.0.0, bytestring-0.9.1.4, containers-0.2.0.0, directory-1.0.0.2, editline-0.2.1.0, filepath-1.1.0.1, (ghc-6.10.1), ghc-prim-0.1.0.0, haddock-2.3.0, haskell98-1.0.1.0, hpc-0.5.0.2, integer-0.1.0.0, old-locale-1.0.0.1, old-time-1.0.0.1, packedstring-0.1.0.1, pretty-1.0.1.0, process-1.0.1.0, random-1.0.0.1, rts-1.0, syb-0.1.0.0, template-haskell-2.3.0.0, unix-2.3.1.0 /home/drc/.ghc/i386-linux-6.10.1/package.conf: Cabal-1.6.0.1, HTTP-3001.1.5, HTTP-4000.0.4, X11-1.4.5, X11-xft-0.3, ghc-paths-0.1.0.5, haddock-2.4.1, haskell98-1.0.1.0, mtl-1.1.0.2, network-2.2.0.1, old-time-1.0.0.0, parsec-2.1.0.1, parsec-3.0.0, process-1.0.1.1, readline-1.0.1.0, unix-2.3.1.0, utf8-string-0.3.3, utf8-string-0.3.4, xmonad-0.8.1, xmonad-contrib-0.8.1, zlib-0.5.0.0 I'm running on a 32 bit machine, latest Ubuntu Intrepid. I'm not a Haskell programmer, just an enthusiastic Xmonad user. Any guidance would be much appreciated. I'd be happy to provide any information about my local setup that might prove useful. Oddly, I can build from source on my other machine, running 64 bit Ubuntu. Thank you, drc

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darcs patch: improve XMonad.Layout.Mosaic
by vogt.adam＠gmail.com 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

It seems more useful to have the list of relative sizes (the only argument to the Mosaic constructor) to represent the master window by the first element, the window just below the master as the second, until either that list runs out, or there are no more windows. Now it is possible to behave like Tall's resizing with: > Mosaic [3,1,1,1,1,1,1] having a function that just changes the first element of the list; using for illustration (clearly the empty list case should be handled); > sendMessage (SlopeMod (\(x:xs) -> x*2:xs)) In the previous scheme, we didn't know which element of the list represented the size of the Master. -- Adam

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'sink' on dmenu
by Maurício 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

Hi, I'm using this as my manage hook: mH = ( ask >>= doF . sink ) I don't understand much about X and xmonad. I read 'sink' clears the float flag from a window. However, some windows (like the one from 'dmenu') still do not appear as other windows managed by my layout. Of course, this is the way it should be. But I would like that all (even 'dlmenu') windows be managed by the layout manager. Is there, maybe, some other flag I should clear or set? Thanks, Maurício

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darcs patch: keyActions moved to XState
by Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

Tue Jul 15 11:34:36 BRT 2008 Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva <marcot(a)riseup.net> * keyActions moved to XState

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