October 2013 - xmonad

avoidStruts not working on first start
by Kasza Péter 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Hello XMonad list! For some reason avoidStruts doesn't seem to work the first time I log in, my dzen bars are hidden. However if I reload XMonad it seems to work fine. I can only reproduce this behaviour by rebooting the machine. This configuration used to work before, but recently I've switched to an ssd, so I suspect that the problem might be related to some race condition. Did anyone had this problem before? I've pasted my xmonad.hs here: http://pastebin.com/6nzAWCQa -- Best Regards, Peter Kasza http://www.iit.uni-miskolc.hu/~kasza1 mr.schyte(a)gmail.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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Xmonad.Util.Paste patch
by Daan van Rossum 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

This patch fixes pasting strings that contain whitespace characters -- Daan van Rossum

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Problem with flickering white lines for some apps.
by Dominik Schrempf 04 Oct '13

04 Oct '13

Hello, I use xmonad standalone with an 3.11.2-1-ARCH kernel on an 21.5 inch iMac with the xf86video-nouveau driver (I log in using slim). For some applications I observe white flickering lines at the bottom right quadrant of the screen. If I let these windows float, the flickering still appears if I move them to the bottom right (I can only see the lines inside the window, not at the wallpaper), but it disappears if I move them more to the top left of the screen. Gnome applications like nautilus and gnome-terminal are not affected by these white lines, the wallpaper isn't either. Emacs, Okular, Firefox flicker though and I didn't try it out with other software. I am a bit at a loss, because I am not sure, how I could provide any log files or other evidence that could help me to solve the problem. Do you have any suggestions? I could provide my xmonad.hs. I noticed one other suspicious thing regarding the flickering applications: they lag 5 to 10 seconds when I start them. E.g. when I start emacs --daemon at the terminal it shows the Daemon does not run, starting emacs daemon and client. Warning: due to a long standing Gtk+ bug ... message, then it hangs for about 5 seconds. Any suggestions are highly appreciated! Cheers, Dominik

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Is there a feature...
by emacstheviking 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

Hi, I've used xmonad for about two and a half years as a "stock" item from the repositories but I have always wanted (or wanted to know) if there is a feature or option that lets you create a new window on top of another one but inside the current frame? Imagine the screen, then using Alt+1 to Alt+9 to switch screens, I'd like to be able to do that inside a currently active region so instead of having another window appear and cause a relayout, I'd like the new open application to sit on top, a stack I guess...I used to use the Lisp "stumpwm" window manager and the ability to flip between windows but within another frame on the screen was brilliiant. I have a suspicion that it will be a "layout" class but I have no idea what one if it exists. Thanks, Sean.

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Missing windows
by Jacek Generowicz 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

Hi, When experimenting with new layouts, I inadvertently deleted some workspaces, I'm not exactly sure how. All the windows that were on those workspaces have disappeared: they do not appear on any workspace. And yet xwininfo -tree -root reports that they still exist. Any ideas how to retrieve them?

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