November 2010 - xmonad

New module: XMonad.Layout.Fullscreen
by Audun Skaugen 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

The attached darcs patch to XMonadContrib adds a new module implementing a (IMHO) much better way of handling fullscreen windows than the existing fullscreenEventHook from EwmhDesktops. Instead of simply fullFloating the window, this module sends a layout message so that the layout can itself determine how to handle the window. Three proof-of-concept layout modifiers are provided, that illustrate the flexibility of this approach: Two varietes to add fullscreen handlig to the layout, and one hackish modifier that adds fullscreen handling to the floating layer. All of these modifiers also have variants that allow you to specify which part of the screen the fullscreened window should fill. I hope you will find this useful.

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Issue 419 in xmonad: Build of xmonad on hackage is broken with ghc-7
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

Status: Accepted Owner: ---- Labels: Priority-Critical Type-Defect Component-Core Component-Contrib New issue 419 by vogt.adam: Build of xmonad on hackage is broken with ghc-7 http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=419 xmonad and xmonad-contrib need base == 3.*, which has been removed xmonad-contrib breaks with mtl-2, since constructors like State and Reader have been removed all problems are fixed in darcs

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darcs patch: get rid of zombies in a more portable way
by Tomas Janousek 12 Dec '10

12 Dec '10

Sun Apr 11 20:55:10 CEST 2010 Tomas Janousek <tomi(a)nomi.cz> * get rid of zombies in a more portable way FreeBSD and OpenBSD don't support the signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN) way of dealing with them. Wikipedia quote on the issue: "POSIX.1-2001 allows a parent process to elect for the kernel to automatically reap child processes that terminate by setting the disposition of SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN or by setting the SA_NOCLDWAIT flag for the SIGCHLD signal; Linux 2.6 kernels adhere to this behavior while FreeBSD supports only the latter of these methods. Because of historical differences between System V and BSD behaviors with regard to ignoring SIGCHLD, calling wait remains the most portable paradigm for cleaning up after forked child processes." -- Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Liskni_si, http://work.lisk.in/

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Re: Issue 69 in xmonad: Key binding improvements
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Comment #9 on issue 69 by mark.stosberg: Key binding improvements http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=69 I'm struggling to try Xmonad because I don't have a windows key and the "loving caress" of xmodmap (as the original poster puts it) is not so gentle. As someone new to Xmonad and Haskell, the "sufficient" workaround is not simple at all: - delete all of the default keybindings - add a single keybinding for your desired prefix key that activates a submap - add all the desired keybindings to your submap I wouldn't know how to start with implementing that. I even tried the "extra user-friendly" BlueTile alternative. It also assumed I had a Windows key... -- 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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Make cursor bigger
by Nick Urbanik 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

Dear Folks, I know that xmonad doesn't directly control the cursor, but I often have trouble finding mine. Any suggestions on what I can do? I've cycled though all the possibilities with xsetroot -cursor_name and they're all too small. -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org nicku(a)nicku.org GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24

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Re: Make the red border around active window more visible
by Nick Urbanik 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

Thank you for this! On 23/11/10 02:57 -0500, wagnerdm(a)seas.upenn.edu wrote: >borderWidth seems to be just what you're looking for. > >main = xmonad defaultConfig { borderWidth = 30 } -- BORDERS ARE HUGE LIKE XBOX Unfortunately, I haven't learned Haskell sufficiently to understand where to put this in my configuration, which looks like this: imports... myManageHook = composeAll [ className =? "Gimp" --> doFloat , className =? "Vncviewer" --> doFloat ] main = do xmproc <- spawnPipe "xmobar" xmonad $ defaultConfig { terminal = "Terminal" , manageHook = manageDocks <+> myManageHook -- make sure to include myManageHook definition from above <+> manageHook defaultConfig , layoutHook = avoidStruts $ layoutHook defaultConfig , logHook = dynamicLogWithPP $ xmobarPP { ppOutput = hPutStrLn xmproc , ppTitle = xmobarColor "green" "" . shorten 50 } , modMask = mod4Mask -- Rebind Mod to the Windows key } `additionalKeys` [ ((mod4Mask .|. shiftMask, xK_z), spawn "xscreensaver-command -lock") , ((controlMask, xK_Print), spawn "sleep 0.2; scrot -s") , ((0, xK_Print), spawn "scrot") ] -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org nicku(a)nicku.org GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24

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Make the red border around active window more visible
by Nick Urbanik 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

Dear Folks, I sometimes have trouble spotting the narrow 1-pixel wide red border that indicates the active window. I'd like to make it more obvious to myself. Any suggestions on how I could go about that? -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org nicku(a)nicku.org GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24

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shortcut doesn't work
by Raphael Bauduin 21 Nov '10

21 Nov '10

Hi, I'm a recent xmonad convert, and I'm really happy with xmonad. Big thanks to the developers! I'm trying to define a shortcut to paste the clipboard content with xte. HEre's the definition (with EzConfig): ("M-v", spawn "xte 'mouseclick 2'" ) the problem is that this shortcut does not work. But this one works fine (2 steps shortcut): ("M-w v", spawn "xte 'mouseclick 2'" ) Any suggestions why? You can fine my whole config at http://pastie.org/1315686 Thanks Raph -- Web database: http://www.myowndb.com Free Software Developers Meeting: http://www.fosdem.org

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xmonad-contrib fails to build
by Tony Morris 20 Nov '10

20 Nov '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, xmonad-contrib 0.9.1 is failing to build with GHC 6.12.1. I was wondering if upgrading to GHC 6.12.3 would fix this. If not, then what other options are there? $ cabal install xmonad-contrib Resolving dependencies... Configuring xmonad-contrib-0.9.1... Preprocessing library xmonad-contrib-0.9.1... Building xmonad-contrib-0.9.1... [ 1 of 180] Compiling XMonad.Util.Replace ( XMonad/Util/Replace.hs, dist/build/XMonad/Util/Replace.o ) XMonad/Util/Replace.hs:1:0: Warning: Module `Prelude' is deprecated: You are using the old package `base' version 3.x. Future GHC versions will not support base version 3.x. You should update your code to use the new base version 4.x. [ 2 of 180] Compiling XMonad.Util.CustomKeys ( XMonad/Util/CustomKeys.hs, dist/build/XMonad/Util/CustomKeys.o ) XMonad/Util/CustomKeys.hs:80:23: Not in scope: data constructor `Reader' cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: xmonad-contrib-0.9.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkznqBsACgkQmnpgrYe6r63HKwCgu40bSQfYKirQboUCUnBGUUYR fqIAoLH5M9NfoNxKvnhEcLEboZl6TN7M =pTmC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [xmonad] separate log for each Xinerama screen
by Oleksandr Manzyuk 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Hi Adam, Thanks for the link to your configuration. Indeed, it basically provides the behavior I wanted to have, except that I also wanted to make the status bar on an unfocused screen show something useful (like the title of the last focused window and the layout on that screen). On the other hand, your code allows to use different pretty-printers for the focused and unfocused screens. Hm... It looks like the changes I am suggesting are not general enough. Should I make a patch or should we think about factoring the existing functionality even further? In the former case, should I change the (admittedly provisional) names dynamicLogWithPP', dynamicLogString', and pprWindowSet' to longer but more descriptive dynamicLogWithPPonScreen, dynamicLogStringOnScreen, and ppWindowSetOnScreen? Best, Sasha

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