February 2009 - xmonad

How can I set modMask to ctrl+alt?
by Ed McCaffrey 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

My favorite keyboards lack a windows key; caps is uncomfortable, and ctrl and alt both have too many conflicts to use individually, so I want to set modMask to ctrl+alt. Thanks, Ed

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Re: [xmonad] Using dzen's new ^ca functionality to switch workspaces with left clicks on dzen's statusbar.
by Norbert Zeh 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

As a quick fix, you could override ppVisible, ppHidden, and ppHiddenNoWindows in your dynamicLog PP to annotate every workspace with the necessary ^ca escape sequences. Something like ppVisible = f ws = ["A", "B", "C"] f s = "^ca(1,ws" ++ (show i) ++ ")" ++ s ++ "^ca()" where i = fromJust $ elemIndex s ws For this to work, you need to import Data.List. Cheers, Norbert On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:14:36PM +0100, Rasmus Jorgensen wrote: > Hi XMonad users and devs, > > I have been using XMonad for a year and a half and being a previous dwm user > I always wanted to have the "left click on ws-tab takes me to ws" > functionality. First step was to hack together bash script and using several > small tools to get the wanted functionality. Can be found here if anyones > interested: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=60665 (It's ugly but > it works) > > Well, this script has now become redundant with the dzen svn 251 "^ca" > functionality - checkout dzen 251 with the following command: > > svn checkout http://dzen.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ dzen > > Putting the following ^ca escape sequences with corresponding scripts in > your workspace list provides the functionality that I want: > > workspaces = > "^ca(1,ws1)abc^ca()":"^ca(1,ws2)def^ca()":"^ca(1,ws3)ghi^ca()":[], > > The ws* scripts contain the following: > > xdotool key <modkey>+<ws-number> > > My ws1 script contains: > > xdotool key alt+1 > > Adding dzen escape sequences to the workspace list is not optimal since it > looks messy and your workspace names does not get recognized by the > manageHook. Hence > > , className =? "Gran Paradiso" --> doF (W.shift "abc") > > does not work. One has to put in "doF (W.shift "^ca(1,ws1)abc^ca()")" to get > it to work. No big problem, but it's not pretty. > > I'm not a very good at programming in general and Haskell is something I'm > trying to learn the basics of at the moment. So I was thinking if anyone > would be interested in expanding the Util.Dzen module or write a new module > to include this functionality, so that (workspace shifting)commands can be > bound to workspace tabs in the dzen statusbar? Perhaps even without calling > external scripts. > > If anything of the above needs to be expanded upon please say so. > > I hope I have woken your interest. > > Thanks, > Rasmus Edgar > _______________________________________________ > xmonad mailing list > xmonad(a)haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/xmonad -- NORBERT ZEH Canada Research Chair Associate Professor Email: nzeh(a)cs.dal.ca Faculty of Computer Science Phone: (902) 494-3154 Dalhousie University Fax: (902) 492-1517

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Using dzen's new ^ca functionality to switch workspaces with left clicks on dzen's statusbar.
by Rasmus Jorgensen 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

Hi XMonad users and devs, I have been using XMonad for a year and a half and being a previous dwm user I always wanted to have the "left click on ws-tab takes me to ws" functionality. First step was to hack together bash script and using several small tools to get the wanted functionality. Can be found here if anyones interested: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=60665 (It's ugly but it works) Well, this script has now become redundant with the dzen svn 251 "^ca" functionality - checkout dzen 251 with the following command: svn checkout http://dzen.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ dzen Putting the following ^ca escape sequences with corresponding scripts in your workspace list provides the functionality that I want: workspaces = "^ca(1,ws1)abc^ca()":"^ca(1,ws2)def^ca()":"^ca(1,ws3)ghi^ca()":[], The ws* scripts contain the following: xdotool key <modkey>+<ws-number> My ws1 script contains: xdotool key alt+1 Adding dzen escape sequences to the workspace list is not optimal since it looks messy and your workspace names does not get recognized by the manageHook. Hence , className =? "Gran Paradiso" --> doF (W.shift "abc") does not work. One has to put in "doF (W.shift "^ca(1,ws1)abc^ca()")" to get it to work. No big problem, but it's not pretty. I'm not a very good at programming in general and Haskell is something I'm trying to learn the basics of at the moment. So I was thinking if anyone would be interested in expanding the Util.Dzen module or write a new module to include this functionality, so that (workspace shifting)commands can be bound to workspace tabs in the dzen statusbar? Perhaps even without calling external scripts. If anything of the above needs to be expanded upon please say so. I hope I have woken your interest. Thanks, Rasmus Edgar

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darcs web patch: Add dmenu and gmenu to related tools
by Ismael Carnales 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

That's all :), bye!

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darcs patch: U.Scratchpad: add general spawn action to close issue 249
by Wirt Wolff 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

Fri Feb 13 17:36:42 MST 2009 wirtwolff(a)gmail.com * U.Scratchpad: add general spawn action to close issue 249 Adds scratchpadSpawnActionCustom where user specifies how to set resource to "scratchpad". This allows use of gnome-terminal, etc. Add detail to RationalRectangle documentation; strip trailing spaces.

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Issue 249 in xmonad: XMonad.Util.Scratchpad cannot be configured to use gnome-terminal
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

Comment #1 on issue 249 by wirtwolff: XMonad.Util.Scratchpad cannot be configured to use gnome-terminal http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=249 In >= xmonad-contrib-0.8 scratchpadSpawnActionTerminal allows running any command and flags as you ask. -- 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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Can't get Urgency Hook to work
by Henri Ducrocq 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

Here is the relevant bit from my xmonad.hs: main = xmonad $ withUrgencyHook dzenUrgencyHook $ gnomeConfig When I echo a bell character from xterm, the corresponding button in my "task bar" flashes, however nothing else happens. dzen2 seems to be working ok, and I see nothing in .xsession-errors. I read all of the doc for UrgencyHook, played with SpawnUrgencyHook as well, I can't see what I'm doing wrong... Could it be that the task bar catches the event and prevents it from being dispatched to xmonad? Or what?

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Issue 249 in xmonad: XMonad.Util.Scratchpad cannot be configured to use gnome-terminal
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

Comment #2 on issue 249 by j...(a)kitenet.net: XMonad.Util.Scratchpad cannot be configured to use gnome-terminal http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=249 Eh, I don't see how. Let's look at the code: scratchpadSpawnActionTerminal term = scratchpadAction $ spawn $ term ++ " -name scratchpad" This is exactly the hardcoding of the -name flag that bit me. -- 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 91 in xmonad: DynamicLog causes xmonad to hang when the output pipe is full
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

Comment #4 on issue 91 by wirtwolff: DynamicLog causes xmonad to hang when the output pipe is full http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=91 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.xmonad/4931/match=sigpipe includes that patch. Or just run darcs xmonad/xmonad-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 91 in xmonad: DynamicLog causes xmonad to hang when the output pipe is full
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

Comment #3 on issue 91 by blufox: DynamicLog causes xmonad to hang when the output pipe is full http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=91 can you add the patch to the bug? I think I have the same issue. -- 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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