November 2011 - xmonad

Issue 485 in xmonad: Change resolution
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 25 Nov '11

25 Nov '11

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 485 by Ericl54...(a)gmail.com: Change resolution http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=485 What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Log in to my desktop from LightDM to xmonad What is the expected output? What do you see instead? My monitor is 1280x1024, while xmonad is using 1024x768. What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? Latest xmonad, Ubuntu 11.10 Are you using an xmonad.hs? Please attach it and the output of "xmonad --recompile". Yes, I am using an xmonad.hs. xmonad --recompile has no output. Please provide any additional information below. xrandr does not change the resolution. When I use gnome, I have to change the resolution manually with xrandr. Attachments: xmonad.hs 594 bytes

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darcs patch: Fix spelling 'prefered' -> 'preferred'.
by mle+hs＠mega-nerd.com 25 Nov '11

25 Nov '11

1 patch for repository http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib: Fri Nov 25 12:02:29 EST 2011 Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd(a)mega-nerd.com> * Fix spelling 'prefered' -> 'preferred'.

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Issue 396 in xmonad: Qt (and KDE) don't display menu if not on first display
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 396 by luka.stojanovic: Qt (and KDE) don't display menu if not on first display http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=396 What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Open Qt or KDE app 2. Place it on second display 3. try opening menu or context-menu What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? Ubuntu 10.04, amd64, xmonad 0.9 Please provide any additional information below. Qt apps that I've tried: VLC, Psi KDE apps that I've tried: Krusader, Amarok, Dolphin...

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XMonad and Gnome3
by Erik de Castro Lopo 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

HI all, I'm a newcomer to XMonad (fleeing the great Gnome3 catastrophe of 2011) and I'm trying to use it with the Gnome3 panel at the top of the screen. If I used a tiled layout it works well enough, but when I start XMonad with either the Circle or SimpleFlaot layout, some Gnome component complains bitterly and suggests I log out to fix the problem. Anybody know of a reason or a workaround for this? I'm using the xmonad and xmonad-contrib packages out of Debian testing. Cheers, Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/

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Issue 480 in xmonad: xmonad merge screens when recompile and restart
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 480 by argu...(a)gmail.com: xmonad merge screens when recompile and restart http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=480 What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Attach external monitor on VGA port of Thinkpad T410i 2. On terminal: xrandr --output VGA --above LVDS --auto 3. Recompile and restart with mod-q What is the expected output? What do you see instead? xmonad should recompile and restart, xmobar (which is on top of VGA) should restart looking good. xmonad does recompile but when restart it merges everything on LVDS, like if my second screen were also LVDS and seems to treat my external monitor like an extension of LVDS. I just can move windows to VGA by moving the floating window. What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? xmonad 0.9.2 on Archlinux x86_64 Are you using an xmonad.hs? Please attach it and the output of "xmonad --recompile". No output when "xmonad --recompile" Please provide any additional information below. It doesn't seem to happen when I use "xrandr --output VGA --right-of LVDS --auto" Attachments: xmonad.hs 14.0 KB

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Issue 483 in xmonad: Shell prompt freezes when a file has a non-ASCII name
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 483 by pi8...(a)gmail.com: Shell prompt freezes when a file has a non-ASCII name http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=483 What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Make the new file which has a non-ASCII name on the home directory. 2. Start shell prompt. 3. Input "./". What is the expected output? What do you see instead? Complement all files on the home directory. Shell prompt freezes. Attachments: XMonad.Prompt.Shell.patch 164 bytes

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xmobar
by Marco Guidetti 19 Nov '11

19 Nov '11

Hi all, I have started using xmonad very recently but so far so good, almost everything works exactly as it should. One of the biggest issue I am dealing with right now is xmobar. I mean: I use two different xmobar instances in xmonad (one at the top and one at the bottom of the screen): the top one has time/battery/xmonad stuff (as in windows, workspace and layout info), the bottom some weather stuff/cpu and so on. I start them in this way: xmproc <- spawnPipe "xmobar ~/.xmobaruprc" (for the top one, which uses DynamicLog) and spawn "xmobar ~/.xmobarrc" (for the bottom one) Obviously this leads to having multiple instances of xmobar running each time i press mod4Mask+q to restart xmonad (which happens quite frequently since I am still configuring all the stuff I need and playing around with xmonad to understand it better). I have seen that in XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog (xmobar) there is a way to do this (even if I still don't fully comprehend how to use it for the DynamicLog, for example). It's not clear to me how to use for multiple xmobar instances (as in my case). Can someone point to relevant examples (I have found the doc/wiki page, but I don't get it)? Thank you, marco PS On request, I can provide my full xmonad.hs

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Issue 469 in xmonad: The --replace flag does not work
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 469 by kris...(a)emptybox.org: The --replace flag does not work http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=469 What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. xmonad --replace What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I expect xmonad to replace the running window manager as documented in xmonad --help Usage: xmonad [OPTION] Options: --help Print this message --version Print the version number --recompile Recompile your ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs --replace Replace the running window manager with xmonad --restart Request a running xmonad process to restart Instead the following occurs: xmonad --replace xmonad: user error (unrecognized flags) xmonad --version xmonad 0.10 (the latest version from darcs)

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Fwd: Patch for haskell-x11
by Mathias Svensson 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

Hello. I was asked to forward this to the xmonad-list if Spencer didn't answer. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mathias Svensson <mathias(a)diku.dk> Date: Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:55 PM Subject: Patch for haskell-x11 To: spencerjanssen(a)gmail.com Hi. I found a bug in the haskell-x11 library, causing all keybindings in xmonad to fail on big-endian systems. The problem is that the keycode in XKeyEvent is an "unsigned int" and not a "KeyCode" (which is an alias for unsigned char). However in Graphics/X11/Xlib/{Event,Extras}.hsc is is read as though it was a KeyCode. This causes no problems on x86 as they result in the same data being saved. However on big-endian this assumption means that the read keycode is always 0. I have fixed the problems in Event.hsc and Extras.hsc, that caused xmonad to not work on big-endian, though I'm pretty sure there is a lot more similar bugs out there (such as first_keycode in XMappingEvent being an int). -- Mathias 'Idolf Hatler' Svensson

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darcs patch: Additional messages for SplitGrid layout (and 3 more)
by Norbert Zeh 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

4 patches for repository http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib: Tue Dec 15 15:21:42 AST 2009 Norbert Zeh <nzeh(a)cs.dal.ca> * Additional messages for SplitGrid layout This patch introduces two new message SetMasterRows and SetMasterCols for the X.GridVariants.SplitGrid layout, which set the number of rows/columns in the master grid to the given value. This is useful when setting the number of rows and/or columns non-incrementally using an interface such as GridSelect. Wed Apr 6 11:02:13 ADT 2011 Norbert Zeh <nzeh(a)cs.dal.ca> * Support for scratchpad applications with multiple windows I recently found that I use xpad to add sticky notes to my desktop. I wanted to be able to show/hide these in the same fashion as regular scratchpads. This patch adds a function that allows to do this while reusing most of the existing NamedScratchpad code. Wed Sep 7 10:33:04 ADT 2011 nzeh(a)cs.dal.ca * Better control over GridVariants geometry Added new messages the layout understands to allow changing the grid aspect ratio and setting the fraction of the master to a given value rather than changing it relative to the current value. Thu Nov 10 12:17:01 AST 2011 Norbert Zeh <nzeh(a)cs.dal.ca> * X.A.Navigation2D This is a new module to support directional navigation across multiple screens. As such it is related to X.A.WindowNavigation and X.L.WindowNavigation, but it is more general. For a detailed discussion of the differences, see http://www.cs.dal.ca/~nzeh/xmonad/Navigation2D.pdf.

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