January 2015 - xmonad

Issue 586 in xmonad: 'onScreen'' with 'FocusCurrent' from 'XMonad.Actions.OnScreen' does not working
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 22 Jan '15

22 Jan '15

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 586 by dontdie...(a)gmail.com: 'onScreen'' with 'FocusCurrent' from 'XMonad.Actions.OnScreen' does not working https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=586 What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. ("<KP_Enter>", onScreen' (spawn "cmplayer") FocusCurrent 1) 2. Push key 3. What is the expected output? What do you see instead? It should spawn command on screen 1, but it spawn always current focused workspace(screen). What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? Arch Linux xmonad 0.11-10 xmonad-contrib 0.11.3-2 Are you using an xmonad.hs? Please attach it and the output of "xmonad --recompile". Please provide any additional information below. Attachments: xmonad.hs 4.9 KB -- You received this message because this project is configured to send all issue notifications to this address. You may adjust your notification preferences at: https://code.google.com/hosting/settings

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Walking Fullscreen Windows
by Chris Bell 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

Hi all, I've noticed an interesting issue with some Fullscreen windows when using SmartBorders. I apologize in advance if this has been addressed - I couldn't find anything, but I'm not sure I was asking Google right. I am using the current release of Xmonad with SmartBorders. When I am running an application fullscreen, SmartBorders removes the borders, as it should. However, every time the window gains or loses focus, the window will grow by a pixel or two. Specifically, the lower right corner will extend down and to the right. All UI elements in the window follow accordingly. Specific example: Using Chrome to watch fullscreen HTML5 video (Netflix). Every time the window gets/loses focus, the UI elements will walk a pixel down, and extend a pixel right, like it's scaling to a resized window. When focus changes again, it again creeps. Eventually the window is far larger than the actual screen. When I leave/re-enter fullscreen, the size is initially correct. Then it starts growing again as I interact. Chrome has handled this admirably - the video simply scales up a couple pixels to compensate. Fullscreen (OpenGL) games, on the other hand, totally freak out. The graphics won't scale, instead a border of corrupt pixels slowly grows around the image; the new pixel rows/columns are filled with random data. I run 3 monitors, and if this happens on the left or center monitors, the windows start overlapping the screen to the right. It almost seems as if the window is getting hints from Xmonad that don't quite correspond to the actual dims, and it keeps compensating. The other idea is that SmartBorders is trying to cover up a border that it thinks exists, but really doesn't. Either way, I'm not quite sure where to start debugging. There's one glaring exception: I have defined a window hook to force VLC to go FullScreenFloat when FullScreen is detected (since VLC fullscreen didn't work out of the box). VLC's window *doesn't* creep like Chrome or any of the others do. Has anyone else seen this? Any fixes/debug suggestions? I'm really hoping I just screwed up something simple. Thanks! Regards, Chris Bell Ph.D. Student University of South Florida College of Engineering Department of Computer Science and Engineering NarMOS Research Team

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Run program on second screen.
by Dontdie YCH 18 Jan '15

18 Jan '15

Hello all, Anyone guide me how to spawn(or 'runOrRaise') program on second screen? My xmonad.hs, http://lpaste.net/118660 Thanks.

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announce: xmonad-entryhelper
by Javran Cheng 17 Jan '15

17 Jan '15

xmonad-entryhelper <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-entryhelper> This package is for those who loves to keep things in sandboxes. After suffering from dependency hell several times, I find it really helps to minimize system level packages and keep other packages either in user level or in sandboxes. I was able to remove xmonad from system packages, and have ~/.xinitrc to call my compiled xmonad config. But soon I realized, different from xmonad itself, the compiled config cannot do some fancy stuff like up-to-date checking, recompilation & send xmonad restart requests. Therefore I wrote this package to wrap the main function to deal with xmonad arguments like --recompile and --restart. This makes the compiled binary behave like xmonad binary itself. Additionally with this package you will be able to customize recompiling action: for example you can use Makefile to manage your xmonad config and set environment variable $XMONAD_HOME to your xmonad path. Then you can make your "xmonad --recompile" call shell command "cd ${XMONAD_HOME} && make all" to do the job. Hope you like this package! -- Javran (Fang) Cheng

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darcs patch: Layout.Spacing: Outer window edges now get as much spa...
by felixc＠felixcrux.com 06 Jan '15

06 Jan '15

Hello XMonad contributors! I've attached here my first patch to XMonadContrib; specifically to the Layout.Spacing component. This change makes it so that all edges of all windows have the same amount of space around them, regardless of whether they're up against the edge of the screen. This matches my personal preference, but I don't know whether the original behaviour was by design or if this style of spacing was already considered and rejected. I'd welcome any discussion on the pros and cons of doing things this way, as well as finding out whether anyone objects to this change. At the end of the day it's up to you whether this patch should be included. Thank you to geekosaur and fizzie in #xmonad for their help with the tricky question of determining whether a Workspace has just one window on it, for the smartSpacing part. All the best, Felix 1 patch for repository http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib: Thu Dec 18 20:47:34 EST 2014 Felix Crux <felixc(a)felixcrux.com> * Layout.Spacing: Outer window edges now get as much spacing as inner ones Layout.Spacing applies a customizable amount of space around the outside of each window. At window edges where two windows meet, the total distance between them is therefore twice the customized value (one space value from each window). At the edge of the screen, however, the spacing is only applied once. This results in uneven amounts of spacing and differently-sized gaps on the screen. This patch extends the Spacing layout to include a further gap all around the edge of the screen, thus making all spaces around windows equal in size.

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Integrated screen lock in xmonad?
by Erik de Castro Lopo 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

Hi all, I'm currently using gnome-screensaver to lock my xmonad sessions, but I was wondering if anyone had put together anything like a an integrated lock screen as a replacement. The reason I want this is that I'd like to extend my lock screen with sound volume and audio pause/play buttons and I *do not want* to try hacking on either gnome-screensaver or xscreensaver. If no one has done it, a pointer in the right direction would be appreciated. Cheers, Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/

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Fix invisible borders
by Igor Babuschkin 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

Hi, I just browsed through the mailing list and noticed that some people were having problems with borders disappearing when viewing RGBA windows. This happened to me with Nautilus, Evince, Chrome and others. I've written a tiny fix for this more than 6 months ago, but never contributed it. (Didn't manage to install darcs. Just tried again for an hour and failed again) Thought I should post this in case someone is still suffering from it. The patch flips the transparency bits in addition to the color bits specified by the user. (They are 0x00 otherwise and result in full transparency) --- XMonad/Main.hsc 2013-01-01 02:31:47.000000000 +0100 +++ ../xmonad-0.11-fixed/XMonad/Main.hsc 2014-06-15 13:25:20.766852974 +0200 @@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ { display = dpy , config = xmc , theRoot = rootw - , normalBorder = nbc - , focusedBorder = fbc + , normalBorder = nbc + 0xFF000000 -- fix invisible borders + , focusedBorder = fbc + 0xFF000000 -- , keyActions = keys xmc xmc , buttonActions = mouseBindings xmc xmc , mouseFocused = False Cheers, Igor

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putEnv from Prompt.Input
by Eric Mrak 04 Jan '15

04 Jan '15

I'm trying to set up a prompt to dynamically change environment variables (say, http_proxy). I'm using Prompt.Input (inputPrompt) to query for values such as "VAR=val" and passing those along to putEnv. The problem is when I start a new terminal using the standard mod+shift+enter the environment does not have VAR=val in it. Is there something I'm missing about how XMonad forks processes and passes along exported values? The only place putEnv seems to work is main, which is not dynamic. updateEnvVar :: String -> X () updateEnvVar s = catchIO $ putEnv s defaultConfig { ... } `additionalKeysP` [ ("M-e", inputPrompt myPromptConfig "set env" ?+ updateEnvVar) ] Thanks for any help

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