May 2015 - xmonad - Haskell.org

[patch] Prompt to select a workspace by its name
by lewo＠abesis.fr 04 Jun '15

04 Jun '15

Hi, Attached is a patch that adds a prompt to select and view a workspace based on its tag and its name which comes from the WorkspaceName extension. Hoping this could interest someone else, A.

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Extra keyboard
by Jean-Baptiste Mestelan 04 Jun '15

04 Jun '15

Hello, I have a USB numeric keypad lying about, and would like to use its keys as special shortcuts (like, its Num-6 could simulate XF86AudioNext...). How do I tell its key strokes apart from those of the main keyboard? Is this done at X level? Would the helpful people on this list provide some pointers, or set me started? Thanks for attention. * FWIW, here is dmesg: [81553.409035] input: USB KB USB KB as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-3/3-3.4/3-3.4:1.0/0003:1241:1503.0006/input/input31 [81553.409193] hid-generic 0003:1241:1503.0006: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [USB KB USB KB] on usb-0000:00:14.0-3.4/input0

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contrib darcs patch: BinarySpacePartition update
by Anton Pirogov 29 May '15

29 May '15

Hi, this patch makes the actions in BSP layout more consistent and usable, making Equalize and Balance work locally and also allowing to open new windows at arbitrary positions: Equalize/Balance now only rearrange the currently focused node instead of the whole layout (e.g. you want to keep some windows like they are but only want to rearrange a deeply nested branch). New windows now are inserted into the currently selected node, so e.g focussing the root (everything) and opening the window will make the new window take half of the screen (not possible or very cumbersome before). Also a new feature is added - now it is possible to select a window or group of windows (first FocusParent, then SelectNode) and "cut&paste" the selected window(s) into some other location in the layout (again, FocusParent to the destination, then MoveNode). This will split the node focused and put the selected window(s) there. The reason for this was that more elaborate rearrangements that I sometimes wished for were simply not possible just with regular window swapping. Best regards, Anton

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Re: [xmonad] Chrome full screen behavior
by Dave Macias 28 May '15

28 May '15

Just recently moved into darcs version of xmonad. Config works exactly the same. Noticed that with the darcs version chromium fullscreen video does not bleed. As a test i went back to using haskell xmonad 0.11.1 and the video did bleed. So the culprit was not chromium but xmonad version 0.11.1. Is the darcs version ever going to be implemented to the stable release (haskell). I noticed there is a thread for "New Release" but nothing concrete as to date. Granted new releases take time but just wondering. Thanks, Dave On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Dave Macias <davama(a)gmail.com> wrote: > When chrome is running on fullscreen (F11) and i change to different pages > the window client expands (bleeds into the neighbor screen). It's like if > it were zooming in. I tried it with firefox and that does not happen. I > provided some screenshots. > > Just in case someone ask, here is a snippet of xmonad.hs file: > myEventHook e = do > screenCornerEventHook e > docksEventHook e > E.fullscreenEventHook e > -- debugKeyEvents e > ...... > defaults = defaultConfig { > -- simple stuff > terminal = myTerminal > , focusFollowsMouse = myFocusFollowsMouse > ..... > , handleEventHook = myEventHook > ..... > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davama/xmonad/master/xmonad.hs > > Everything points to chrome but i just want to rule out xmonad. Any input? > > Thanks in advance >

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New release
by Carsten Mattner 22 May '15

22 May '15

Isn't it time for a new release? Been using xmonad from darcs without issues for a long time.

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Issue 527 in xmonad: Google Hangouts screen sharing crashes
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 19 May '15

19 May '15

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 527 by szty...(a)gmail.com: Google Hangouts screen sharing crashes http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=527 1. Open a new Google Hangout 2. Press "Share your screen" 3. The window for selecting the window to share appears for a fraction of a second and then the hangout crashes. I am using xmonad 0.11 on Gentoo without any additional configuration changes. The same functionality works with other window managers, also other tiling ones.

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Fwd: contrib darcs patch: BinarySpacePartition update
by Anton Pirogov 18 May '15

18 May '15

Hi Daniel, As far as I am aware, BSP is only in contrib-darcs for 6 months. My first patch to BSP is 2 months old and introduced far more invasive changes than this one, and the little feedback I got was good, but since it is so fresh I dont think that there are many users out there who used it in it's "new form" already. In comparison, this is a smaller update which I think is important to make everything more consistent with the whole node-focus semantics that I introduced and addresses some small annoyances that became apparent after using the layout extensively for some time. So no, it is not backwards-compatible, but I am quite sure that it is not a problem - at least as long as there was no new official xmonad release that "freezes" the current behaviour. Best regards, Anton 2015-05-18 2:26 GMT+02:00 Daniel Wagner <dmwit(a)dmwit.com>: > Hi Anton -- > > Thanks for the patch. It looks like it builds, and without knowing > anything about BSP the changes sound positive to me. > > Nevertheless, can you comment briefly on backwards-compatibility? How > likely is it that there are people out there that use BSP and like the > current behavior, and will find xmonad behaving differently as a result of > this patch? > > Can we support the old behavior and make the new behavior "opt-in" by > folks that want it? > > ~d > > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 2:31 AM, Anton Pirogov <anton.pirogov(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> this patch makes the actions in BSP layout more consistent and usable, >> making Equalize and Balance work locally and also allowing to open new >> windows at arbitrary positions: >> >> Equalize/Balance now only rearrange the currently focused node instead of >> the whole layout (e.g. you want to keep some windows like they are but only >> want to rearrange a deeply nested branch). >> >> New windows now are inserted into the currently selected node, so e.g >> focussing the root (everything) and opening the window will make the new >> window take half of the screen (not possible or very cumbersome before). >> >> Also a new feature is added - now it is possible to select a window or >> group of windows (first FocusParent, then SelectNode) and "cut&paste" the >> selected window(s) into some other location in the layout (again, >> FocusParent to the destination, then MoveNode). This will split the node >> focused and put the selected window(s) there. >> >> The reason for this was that more elaborate rearrangements that I >> sometimes wished for were simply not possible just with regular window >> swapping. >> >> Best regards, >> Anton >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xmonad mailing list >> xmonad(a)haskell.org >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmonad >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > xmonad mailing list > xmonad(a)haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmonad > >

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[patch]
by François Gannaz 17 May '15

17 May '15

Hi Here is a small patch that was useful to me. I noticed too late that I had put non-ASCII text (UTF-8) in my patch comment. I have no experience with Darcs, so I didn't try to amend it. Darcs' send comand did not handle it well: it converted everything to single bytes characters. I edited the comment, but feel free to remove non-ACSII from the patch. Regards -- François Gannaz

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xmonad hides xfce4-panel
by Kalle Svensson 09 May '15

09 May '15

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Beginner problem with XMonad and appending to a list rather than prefixing
by Trey Blancher 07 May '15

07 May '15

XMonad Community, After all this time, I'm still just a beginner with XMonad. I only know Haskell through XMonad, and I wouldn't say I know it well. I learn just enough to get my XMonad configuration to work, then don't return to it for a while. I'm trying to make a minor change to my XMonad file, where a new workspace is appended to the list rather than prefixed like I have now, but I can't seem to figure out the code to do it. Here's the relevant details of what I have: import XMonad.Actions.DynamicWorkspaces as DW import qualified XMonad.Util.ExtensibleState as XS import Control.Applicative filterWorkspaces :: [WorkspaceId] -> [WindowSpace] -> [WindowSpace] filterWorkspaces ws = filter (\(W.Workspace tag _ _) -> tag `elem` ws) -- xScreen are the type classes which hold the workspace name lists newtype LeftScreen = LeftScreen {getLeftScreen :: [WorkspaceId]} deriving (Typeable,Read,Show) instance ExtensionClass LeftScreen where initialValue = LeftScreen [] extensionType = PersistentExtension newtype RightScreen = RightScreen {getRightScreen :: [WorkspaceId]} deriving (Typeable,Read,Show) instance ExtensionClass RightScreen where initialValue = RightScreen [] extensionType = PersistentExtension -- snip -- main = do dbus <- D.connectSession getWellKnownName dbus; xmonad $ xfceConfig { workspaces = ["sh","sb","of","wc","ws","wb","cht"] , terminal = "urxvtc" -- Goodbye, my sweet, sweet, sloppy focus , focusFollowsMouse = False , manageHook = manageDocks <+> myManageHook -- <+> manageHook defaultConfig , layoutHook = avoidStruts $ onWorkspace "gimp" gimp $ layoutH , logHook = dynamicLogWithPP (ppL dbus) >> dynamicLogWithPP (ppR dbus) >> fadeHook , borderWidth = 1 , normalBorderColor = "#333333" , focusedBorderColor = "#CCCC00" , modMask = winKey , startupHook = setWMName "LG3D" } `additionalKeys` myKeys myKeys = [ -- snip -- Here's what I want to change , ((winKey , xK_m) ,DW.withWorkspace myXPConfigNew $ \wk -> do sc <- screenBy 0 if sc == 0 then XS.modifyf $ LeftScreen . (wk :) . getLeftScreen -- prefix left list with new workspace --then XS.modify $ LeftScreen . getLeftScreen ++[wk] -- My first attempt at appending the workspace else XS.modify $ RightScreen . (wk :) . getRightScreen -- prefix right list with new workspace --else XS.modify $ RightScreen . (wk ++) . getRightScreen -- another attempt windows $ W.view wk) Normally I'd ask on #xmonad(a)irc.freenode.net, but I haven't had time to get on there. I'm sure this demonstrates my lack of knowledge of XMonad and Haskell in general, hopefully you can help. Thanks in advance, Trey Blancher trey(a)blancher.net

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