April 2010 - xmonad - Haskell.org

darcs patch: XMonad.Core: rw recompilation
by gwern0＠gmail.com 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

1 patch for repository http://code.haskell.org/xmonad: Sat Apr 10 12:07:55 EDT 2010 gwern0(a)gmail.com * XMonad.Core: rw recompilation This diverts the intermediate *.o *.hi files to /tmp, so they don't clutter up ~/.xmonad/

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darcs patch: new workspace sorting function in TopicSpace
by Brent Yorgey 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

Attached is a patch which adds a new exported function to TopicSpace, appropriate for providing as the ppSort field of a PP DynamicLog record, which sorts workspaces by history. The current facilities provided by TopicSpace for interfacing with DynamicLog are much too monolithic; this patch adds functionality that I want (and which others might find useful) but it really ought to be completely refactored to provide many smaller components that users can assemble however they like. -Brent

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darcs patch: Clean .hi and .o files when recompiling
by Joachim Breitner 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

Hi, I’d like to see this in the next release, to reduce the delta between xmonad as shipped by debian and as it is on hackage: Wed Sep 9 10:15:57 CEST 2009 Joachim Breitner <mail(a)joachim-breitner.de> * Clean .hi and .o files when recompiling This patch is applied to the Debian packages since a few months. During the last ghc upgrade in Debian, people had to this manually to get their xmonad compilable again. This patch should mitigate this a bit. Greetings, Joachim

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Tray icon to poweroff
by Luis Cabellos 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

hi, I just made a tray icon to poweroff/shutdown/suspend/hibernate the computer. I made it to use in xmonad, with stalonetray. I hope someone think it's useful also, feedback welcome. Thanks, Luis Cabellos

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Re: Re: xmonad Digest, Vol 37, Issue 4
by Alejandro Serrano Mena 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

> > > From: Alexandre <ac007(a)bluewin.ch> > Subject: Re: [xmonad] Re: xmonad Digest, Vol 37, Issue 4 > To: xmonad(a)haskell.org > Message-ID: > <snqy0r4mvpjyxgiabdsmca9jkdtsiaocqvsvnjq3pfhfnufe(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:03:52PM +0200, Jan Vornberger wrote: > > By the way: Since you are apparently using decorations, what is your > > experience with them in general? Are you on a dual-head setup or just a > > single monitor? Because the decoration code really needs some work, I'm > > afraid. Sometimes I have problems with 'left-over' title bars that won't > > disappear and such things. I reckon there aren't many people on this > > list that are using decoration, are there? > > Although the question was not addressed to me... :) > > Not sure if the problem is with 'Layout.Decoration' or specifically with > 'Layout.Tabbed' but : > > In a 'tabbed' workspace, switching from a "normal" application to a > "transparent" urxvt is slow (1-2 seconds). On the other hand, switching > between 2 (undecorated) workspaces containing a transparent urxvt is > almost instantanous. > > I'm not using urxvt with transparency anymore, because i like tabbed > more than transparency :p > > Sorry, I didn't see the message because I answered the other one without changing the subject line :( My experience with decorations is mostly great. I only have one problem: when I click maximize (most of the times because of I miss the close button and click maximize instead) the decoration seems to appear behind the window, and only the "menu" button is shown, so I have to enter the menu to de-maximize it. Even more, when I maximize a window, it does not expand to the entire window. I use it title bars with dragging visualizers and window switchers and I haven't found any special issue with using both, so I'm very happy with it :) Some times I've seen some left-over title bars, mostly when switching a window to another workspace. But it does not happen frequently. For me, it only happens when I try to open Eclipse, and then think I should switch it to another workspace, so I move the initial window to the another workspace, but then the "loading" window disappears and only a title bar is left. Maybe some race condition between showing the title bar and closing the window. Finally, I may add that I've developed a little Gnome panel applet to show which windows are minimized. I think it's a better idea than showing all open windows (as in Gnome panel), or not showing none. Then I use the panel above to use a global menu, so windows have more space to show actual contents. I did a screenshot http://twitpic.com/1c1zu0 As Alexandre, I'm a very happy XMonad user, even I just did the change about 2 weeks ago :)

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Image buttons in title bars
by Alejandro Serrano Mena 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

Hi, I've implemented a way to show not only text buttons in titlebars but also image buttons. I attach a patch with the neccessary code, basically some extensions to XMonad.Util.XUtils and XMonad.Layout.Decoration, and a theme which uses the code: XMonad.Layout.ImageButtonDecoration. Thanks in advance.

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Escape key and multiple actions
by Mattias Pettersson 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

Hi there! I would like to know(if possible) how to make the key escape do whatever it does as default behaviour and also do something more at the same time. In my case I also want to: spawn "conkeror -f unfocus". This is mycode which binds the escape key making it useless in all other applications. xmonad $ defaultConfig { modMask = mod4Mask , keys = \c -> mykeys c `M.union` keys defaultConfig c , terminal = "xterm" , workspaces = workspaces' , manageHook = manageHook' <+> manageHook defaultConfig -- , layoutHook = layoutHook' , startupHook = startupHook' } where mykeys (XConfig {modMask = modm}) = M.fromList $ [ ((0 , xK_Escape), spawn "conkeror -f unfocus") ] Thanks in advance.

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darcs patch: X.H.UrgencyHook: performance fix
by Tomas Janousek 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

Sat Mar 27 21:15:03 CET 2010 Tomas Janousek <tomi(a)nomi.cz> * X.H.UrgencyHook: performance fix cleanupUrgents would update the Map in extensible state 2-times the number of visible windows, resulting in excessive memory usage and garbage collection. This seems to make it behave correctly. Note: this is actually not necessary after the fix to core I just posted, but it should speed things up a little if one has hundreds of visible windows. -- Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Liskni_si, http://work.lisk.in/

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darcs patch: Pass extensible state via an environment variable when restarting
by Daniel Schoepe 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

Sat Nov 14 01:10:19 CET 2009 Daniel Schoepe <daniel.schoepe(a)gmail.com> * Pass extensible state via an environment variable when restarting This fixes a crash when an old xmonad binary would receive an additional state argument.

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Re: xmonad Digest, Vol 37, Issue 4
by Alejandro Serrano Mena 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

Hi! Thanks very much for your comments :) I think it's OK to change the button. Really, I was not very sure of how a "menu" button should look, so I drew the first thing that came to my mind. And your icon is more sensible for a "menu" button than mine. I'm now looking for some other ways to improve the image of the title bar, maybe using real images and backgrounds instead of list of pixels. However, I'm having some trouble thinking how XMonad could locate the image files in the disk. Does anyone have an idea about this? > Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 19:59:08 +0200 > From: "Jan Vornberger" <Jan.Vornberger(a)Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> > Subject: Re: [xmonad] Image buttons in title bars > To: xmonad(a)haskell.org > Message-ID: <20100402175908.GA23701(a)archer.localdomain.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi Alejandro! > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:48:27AM +0200, Alejandro Serrano Mena wrote: > > Hi, > > I've implemented a way to show not only text buttons in titlebars but > also > > image buttons. > > I attach a patch with the neccessary code, basically some extensions to > > XMonad.Util.XUtils and XMonad.Layout.Decoration, and a theme which uses > the > > code: XMonad.Layout.ImageButtonDecoration. > > I had some time now to play with that patch. Cool stuff! Nice that you > made something like that work. I'm in favor of applying it, but it > touches quite a few places, so I will wait a few days to see if anyone > objects (?). > > I'm thinking of using this in Bluetile. I like your images for the > buttons! However, for the menu button, I would prefer this image (somewhat > trying to symbolize a window with a titlebar): > > menuButton' = [[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1], > [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1], > [1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1], > [1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1], > [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1], > [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1], > [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1], > [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1], > [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1], > [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]] > > How do you feel about that? I'm attaching a patch if you'd like to try it > out. > > Regards! > Jan >

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