February 2014 - xmonad

XMonad inside Virtualbox inside XMonad
by Jacek Generowicz 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Hi, Somehow XMonad and Virtualbox beetween them conspire to prevent the key I use as my XMonad modifier to be passed on to the guest OS (even when Virtualbox' key capture prevents the host's XMonad from seeing it). I have checked this by running xev in both host and guest and comparing what they see: all other modifier keys I can think of, get through to the guest except for the XMonad modifier. Obviously this makes it impossible to use XMonad sensibly in the guest. Any ideas about how to get around this problem? Thanks.

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CopyWindow to pyhsical screens
by Kasza Péter 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

Is it possible to copy a window to another physical screen? Using CopyWindow the window seems to appear only on the "active" monitor. -- 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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Getting _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP set
by Erik de Castro Lopo 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

Hi all, I've got 8 desktops setup in xmonad, but for all of then the value of _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP is 0 whereas I (or rather an application I'm using) needs it to be different. I've tried setting: , handleEventHook = ewmhDesktopsEventHook , startupHook = ewmhDesktopsStartup in my defaultConfig, but that doesn't help. Clues? Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/

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2013-02-09 change to XMonad.Prompt.Shell breaks shell completion
by md143rbh7f 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

The following change from 2013-02-09 breaks shell completion for me: hunk ./XMonad/Prompt/Shell.hs 65 + commandToComplete _ c = c It seems to be passing the entire string into compgen in order to get the file completions, but it should only pass the last word. I propose reverting this change. Comments are appreciated. (CCing c.lopez(a)kmels.net, who originally wrote the patch.)

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adding more to topicSpaces..
by Joe M 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Hello, Just wanted to check if you have any thoughts on this, please? https://github.com/joe9/xmonad-task/blob/master/XMonad/Actions/Task.hs and, the configuration to use it is at: https://github.com/joe9/xmonad-task/tree/master/XMonad/Config This package provides: 1. custom workspaceid display functionality in xmobar and gridSelect. 2. ability to add workspaces at runtime using the servermode. Thanks Joe

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