January 2010 - xmonad

X.U.WorkspaceCompare getSortByXineramaRule
by Anders Engström 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

So, I was hacking on X.U.WorkspaceCompare, or more precisely getSortByXineramaRule, since I got irritated that my screen identifiers did not match my physical layout. Therefore I added a new sorter (getSortByXineramaPhysicalRule) that shares most of the code with the old one, but treats screens the same way as X.A.PhysicalScreens. It now got me thinking, is this really such a good idea? Maybe The old rule should be changed instead? What is preferable? It would change the behaviour for already existing configs, but for those users the behaviour is most likely a "bug". So this would be more like a bug fix. The downside is that the positioning will not match the default keybindings. Those encountering this is more likely to use X.A.PhysicalScreens or X.A.CycleWS though (like me). So is it a good idea to change the already existing sort rule?

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Set avoidStruts for an individual workspace
by Ones Self 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

Hi, I'm using avoidStruts to leave the Gnome status bar uncovered, but I have one workspace, used for watching movies, that I would like the window to cover the bar. I'm currently using a key combo to toggleStruts, but I would like that workspace to just have that set always. Is this possible? Thanks

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Multi-head beamer presentations
by Ivan Lazar Miljenovic 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

I'm doing a presentation using Beamer [1] for LaTeX. It allows using the second screen for notes by basically creating two-screen wide "pages" with the idea of having the entire full screen presentation spread across both screens (and the projector only showing one screen). Now, this works well for how "traditional" window managers treat multi-head as one big workspace, but obviously doesn't work too well for xmonad. Is there any nice way I can do up a key combo or something (maybe even a ManageHook?) to have it automatically go floating and spread out across both screens (i.e. across the entire visible area)? [1] http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/ -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic(a)gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com

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Issue 357 in xmonad: Ctrl+C in shellPrompt makes xmonad hang
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 357 by akhilman: Ctrl+C in shellPrompt makes xmonad hang http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=357 What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. activate shellPrompt (modMask + P) 2. press Ctrl+C in shell prompt 3. do anything if you can do. xmonad hangs. What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I expect exiting from shell prompt. But have to restart X. What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? xmonad 0.9 gentoo linux and arch linux -- 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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[newbie] {visual preview of workspaces, ignoring current workspace} when using Actions.CycleWS
by Lara Michaels 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

Hello, I am brand new to xmonad and it has blown my mind away. FINALLY being able to discretionarily assign a workspace to a physical screen is amazing. : ) Two brief questions: 1 - Is it possible to get some sort of visual preview of what is in the next or previous workspace when moving with next|prevWS? (A little bit like regular window managers bring up for you to pick among windows when you press Alt-Tab?) Currently, I cycle blindly among all nine workspaces until I stumble upon the one I had in mind. 2- In the attached xmonad.hs, I have tried to combine cycling with Actions.CycleWS with the non-greedy view. My goal is that, when the focus is on a particular (physical) screen, doing (next|prev)WS will *skip* over the workspace currently visible in the *other* (physical) screen. In other words, I would like the focus never to leave the physical screen I am using, and that while cycling the workspace currently in the other screen would be ignored. Is there even a way to do this...? In any case, many thanks to the developers for this awesome tool! cheers lara

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how to map XF86* keys?
by Chengqi Song 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

Hi All, I want to map my vol up and vol down keys. I used xev to capture their info as follows: KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1600001, root 0x115, subw 0x0, time 1035672, (320,301), root:(321,319), state 0x0, keycode 122 (keysym 0x1008ff11, XF86AudioLowerVolume), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1600001, root 0x115, subw 0x0, time 1036158, (320,301), root:(321,319), state 0x0, keycode 123 (keysym 0x1008ff13, XF86AudioRaiseVolume), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False but I dont know how to use them in my xmonad.hs like other keys: myKeys = \c -> mkKeymap c $ -- volume key binding [ ("M-=", spawn "aumix2pipe +10") , ("M--", spawn "aumix2pipe -10") Could anyone provide a solution? thanks lars

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The minimal xmonad.hs has error
by Yuliang Wang 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

My xmonad.hs: import XMonad main = xmonad defaultConfig { modMask = mod4Mask , terminal = "xterm" } but after restart xmonad I get the following error message Error detected while loading xmonad configuration file: /home/yuliang/.xmonad/xmonad.hs xmonad.hs:1:7: Could not find module `XMonad': it is a member of the hidden package `xmonad-0.9' Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. Please check the file for errors. -- Sincerely, Yuliang Wang

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Mouse pointer: Always there?
by Ralph Hofmann 09 Jan '10

09 Jan '10

Is there a way to let the mouse pointer disappear after a few seconds of not using the mouse und let it reappear again, when the mouse is beeing used? Ralph

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windows not active when using ssh -X
by Yuliang Wang 07 Jan '10

07 Jan '10

I use ssh -X to our department server and start MATLAB. MATLAB started but the window is blank, only the menu is active. In gnome there is no such problem. -- Sincerely, Yuliang Wang

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broken windows border when display is in portrait mode
by Yuliang Wang 07 Jan '10

07 Jan '10

I use two monitors both in portrait mode. The border of windows are broken, no matter how wide the border is. It is fine if my monitors are set in landscape mode. Maybe the darcs version fixed this bug? -- Sincerely, Yuliang Wang

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