October 2011 - xmonad

Throwing exceptions from a xmonad-contrib module
by Daniel Mlot 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

Hi all, A beginner XMonad hacker question: on reading the sources for the CycleSelectedLayouts extension I found one thing to be slightly weird. Check the following snippet: cycleToNext :: (Eq a) => [a] -> a -> Maybe a cycleToNext lst a = do -- not beautiful but simple and readable ind <- findIndex (a==) lst return $ lst !! if ind == length lst - 1 then 0 else ind+1 -- | If the current layout is in the list, cycle to the next layout. Otherwise, -- apply the first layout from list. cycleThroughLayouts :: [String] -> X () cycleThroughLayouts lst = do winset <- gets windowset let ld = description . S.layout . S.workspace . S.current $ winset let newld = fromMaybe (head lst) (cycleToNext lst ld) sendMessage $ JumpToLayout newld If you apply cycleThroughLayouts on an empty list, it will try to take the list's head. That doesn't crash xmonad, though, because the exception is swallowed by sendMessage. Would throwing an exception "needlessly" like that just because it will be caught later on count as a bug or is it something not worth bothering about? Daniel

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(not xmonad) Easy shift / ctrl / AltGR ... hack
by Teika Kazura 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

Hi. I wrote a hack which provides for example "space/shift dual role key". When you press the space key alone, it's a space; but when you press it with another key, it's a shift. Any pairs of keys are possible. This means your hands stay almost always at their home postion. Keyboard oriented people may gain much from it. In my case, it lets me press Alt, Ctrl, and Shift with my thumbs. Now I can't type comfortably without it. It's a fork of Xorg "evdev" driver (= xf86-input-evdev). For download and the details, visit the homepage[1]. Both tarball and git access are provided. [1] http://gitorious.org/at-home-modifier/pages/Home (If you happen to already be a user, today I released a new version 2.6.2.) Pointers to Gentoo linux ebuild and ArchLinux AUR are on the website. Any comments, both positive and negative, are more than welcome. Please give me a feedback. (I don't know how many have tried. ;) With best regards. Teika (Teika kazura)

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Re: [xmonad] Resize floating scratchpad with keyboard
by Brandon Allbery 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 02:34, informationen <informationen(a)gmx.de> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 16:36, informationen <informationen(a)gmx.de> wrote: >> i am using scratchpad as drop-down terminal together with >> screen. The scratchpad window is configured to take 35% of the >> window height. How can i increase and decrease the scratchpad >> height without using the mouse? >> >> XMonad.Actions.FloatKeys might be of interest. >> >> This works for most applications, but does not work for most > terminals. The only terminal type i can use it with is > gnome-terminal. But when i use gnome-terminal as a > scratchpad-terminal, it won't work anymore. I can descrease the > window height, but not increase it. > > Is this a know bug? Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this? > > This is how i use floatkeys with namedscratchads in my config: > > scratchpads = [ > NS "screen" "gnome-terminal --title=screen" (title =? "screen") > (customFloating $ W.RationalRect 0 0 1 0.57), > ] > , ("M-i", namedScratchpadAction scratchpads "screen") > , ("M-o", withFocused (keysResizeWindow (0,20) (0,0))) --expand float at > top > , ("M-p", withFocused (keysResizeWindow (0,-20) (0,0))) --shrink float at > top > > Chris > You should probably send this back to the list. (I've copied it there.) -- brandon s allbery allbery.b(a)gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms

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Resize floating scratchpad with keyboard
by informationen 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Hi, i am using scratchpad as drop-down terminal together with screen. The scratchpad window is configured to take 35% of the window height. How can i increase and decrease the scratchpad height without using the mouse? Kind regards Chris

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Wallpaper Appearing Briefly on Client Creation/Destruction in Tiled Layouts
by Bastien Dejean 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Hi, I noticed that my wallpaper (or the root window if there is none) is appearing briefly (i.e. flashing) during client creation / destruction in tiled layouts. This jerky effect is not happening in Fullscreen layout. Is there a workaround to this? Regards,

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dwm useless gaps
by Bastien Dejean 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Hi, Is there an equivalent to the 'useless gaps' dwm patch? Cheers, -- Bastien

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Help with Actions.Search
by Desai Shukla 02 Oct '11

02 Oct '11

These are my two attempts at getting Actions.Search to work: http://sprunge.us/TYfX http://sprunge.us/MXGH The first paste is with just Haskell code, and the second is with what looks like syntactic sugar via the EZConfig module. I'm new I'm new to Haskell and Xmonad, and I'm unsure where to put the searchEngineMap method (constructor function?) lines in the first paste. I'm unsure where to put the searchList type declaration and list in the second. I'm lost. Help is appreciated. -- Desai

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xmonad for the Haskell unwashed?
by Allen S. Rout 01 Oct '11

01 Oct '11

Hi; I'm contemplating a tiling WM, and am drawn to xmonad because its customisation language is its implementation language; I'm long accustomed to this in e.g. EMACS, so I feel it'd be a good fit. But a friend, who's otherwise an outspoken Haskell advocate, put xmonad down in favor of awesome for reasons I'll summarize as 'dependency hell'. I'm interested in the perspective of the xmonad clan on this: If I pick up xmonad simply because I want a hackable WM, how much Haskell janitorial work will I be taking on? Is there a straightfoward and broadly accepted base of package repositories? Are the participants in the module ecosystem pretty careful not to break stuff? Do current versions of various xmonad packages all depend on the current versions of their dependencies? - Allen S. Rout

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