June 2012 - xmonad - Haskell.org

Configuration question
by Evan Driscoll 05 Jun '12

05 Jun '12

I have a question about how to configure things for a certain behavior. A short version which suffices: is it possible to set up a keybinding to change the keybindings? Here's what I'm actually trying to do: I find that most of the time my workflow basically has me changing between two or three different "projects". (For instance, working on a couple different development projects with different source trees, etc.) Each project usually takes up a couple virtual desktops. What I would like is something like a two-tiered virtual desktop setup, where I could have different project spaces each with its own set of virtual desktops. So for instance, Mod-F1 would change to project A, and Mod-1 through Mod-5 would choose between the desktops for project A. Then Mod-F2 would change to project B, and Mod-1 through Mod-5 would choose between the desktops for Project B. I have a small amount of Haskell knowledge, but only a small amount. I'd appreciate any suggestions. Evan

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Prompt completion: Longest common string
by Pablo Olmos de Aguilera Corradini 05 Jun '12

05 Jun '12

Well, I don't know if I can be clear enough; I'm looking to be able to "complete" when I press tab instead of cycle through every option. For example: Run: gno a lot of output that starts with gnome- I would expect that pressing <Tab> turns gno to gnome- I've been looking trough the Xmonad.Prompt and Xmonad.Prompt.Shell in the contrib docs, but I can't find the correct function to do it. I guess it have to do with 'mkComplFunFromList' or 'nextCompletion', but I don't how (or where) to start :( Any help/guidance would be greatly appreciated. Regards, -- Pablo Olmos de Aguilera Corradini - @PaBLoX http://www.glatelier.org/ http://about.me/pablox/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/pablooda/ Linux User: #456971 - http://counter.li.org/

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[patch] EwmhDesktops: make setActiveWindow set _NET_WM_STATE for gtk-3.4
by Jens Petersen 02 Jun '12

02 Jun '12

Hi, I am not an expert on EWMH but this change seems to be necessary for coming GTK 3.4, when using themes like Adwaita, that now supports @theme_unfocused_fg_color which causes unfocused application's UI to be rendered unfocused in addition to the normal unfocused window manager decoration. Current desktopConfig triggers this causing all Gtk3 apps to be rendered as unfocused. Anyway I would appreciate review of this patch and feedback: perhaps there is a better more correct fix? I am planning to apply a patch for this shortly to Fedora 17 xmonad-contrib, otherwise GTK apps in gnomeConfig etc look terrible. There are more technical details in the changelog. I haven't found any other window manager that triggers this issue yet. Jens

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xmobar disappears
by Michael Norrish 01 Jun '12

01 Jun '12

When I restart xmonad with a M-q command my xmobar disappears. There's an xmobar process running and it's not obviously blocked. (strace shows it doing things, including recvfrom and writev both with non-zero positive return codes). Xmonad also appears to think it's there in at least some sense because there's a strut on the top of the screen. But instead of there being anything visible, I can just see the wallpaper window... This is all under LightDM/Ubuntu12.04. If I attempt to alter the "root window" (with something like display -window root some.jpg) the wallpaper doesn't change, suggesting that there is a wallpaper window lying on top of the "real root window". Also, the wallpaper responds to right-clicks and brings up a gnome-config type menu. So, perhaps my xmobar restarts underneath the wallpaper and is thus obscured. If so, how might I bring it to the fore? I'm running a cabal xmonad and xmobar on top of Ubuntu12.04, with an /usr/share/xsessions/xmonad.desktop that looks like: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=XMonad Comment=Lightweight tiling window manager Exec=gnome-session --session=xmonad Icon=xmonad.png Type=XSession and a /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/xmonad.session that looks like: [GNOME Session] Name=Xmonad session RequiredComponents=gnome-settings-daemon; RequiredProviders=windowmanager;notifications; DefaultProvider-windowmanager=xmonad DefaultProvider-notifications=notification-daemon Thanks, Michael

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