January 2016 - xmonad

Code Freeze for v0.12 and Time to Test!
by Peter Jones 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

Except for bug fixes, I'd like to call for a freeze on commits to the xmonad and xmonad-contrib repositories until we get a release out. At this point I think we have everything we need in place. Let's take advantage of the weekend and let as many people as possible test 0.12. Then on Monday I'll open pull requests from my repos and we can tag and release. For reference, the following repositories have the latest changes plus all of my documentation updates: https://github.com/pjones/xmonad/tree/release-0.12 https://github.com/pjones/xmonad-contrib/tree/release-0.12 I also put together a stand-alone repository to help me test xmonad and xmonad-contrib using GHC 7.10.2, 7.8.4, and 7.6.3. (We should plan on making another release in January to cover 7.10.3.) My testing repository can be found at: https://github.com/pjones/xmonad-test/tree/release-0.12 So, please go forth and read the docs and compile the code! -- Peter Jones, Founder, Devalot.com Defending the honor of good code

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Mouse focus without entering window
by Ico 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Hi Xmonad, I'd like xmonad to give focus to the window under my mouse cursor, independent of entering or leaving the window. Consider the following use case: one workspace with two windows. The mouse and focus are both in the left window. I use the keyboard to give focus to the right window (alt-tab or similar). To give focus back to the left window by mouse, I first need to move the mouse outside and then back into the window. Instead i'd like focus to pop back to window one as soon as I move the mouse. (Yes, I know I could/should give focus back with alt tab again, but that is not the point I have more similar use cases, some using multiple work spaces, where I'd like to see he same focus behaviour. According to #xmonad on irc some would consider this behaviour buggy, which I can understand. Is there still a way to make Xmonad act like described? Thank you, Ico -- :wq ^X^Cy^K^X^C^C^C^C

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minimal easy Xmonad 0.11.1 on Lubuntu 15.10 with lxpanel 0.8.1
by Alexander Genaud 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

was "Vanilla Xmonad distribution" virtualbox on windows 10 created a vmachine with 600 MB RAM and 6 GB disk mounted lubuntu 15.10 32-bit iso installed, eject iso, restart, login, terminal # apt-get install xmonad $ mkdir ~/.xmonad $ cat > ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs import XMonad import XMonad.Config.Desktop main = xmonad $ desktopConfig { modMask = mod4Mask , terminal = "lxterminal" } $ echo "exec lxpanel &" > ~/.xmonad/xmonad-session-rc logout, select XMonad (top right), login

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google code issues
by Brandon Allbery 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

So are we going to do anything about Google Code Issues going away in a little over two weeks? -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b(a)gmail.com ballbery(a)sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net

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Yet another fullscreen thread...
by Thomas Järvstrand 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Hi! I'm a happy xmonad user since a couple of years now. Previously I managed to successfully set it up the way I wanted under Ubuntu using Gnome2 but recently I decided I wanted to try something new and installed xfce (xubuntu), under which I'm having some trouble setting the fullscreen functionality which for some reason was working flawlessly under ubuntu 14.04. I have problems getting fullscreen applications to work. Specifically showing media. I have been able to apply the workaround to float VLC but it's a bit annoying since I don't always want to have it fullscreen all the time and I haven't been able to find a good way of switching back and forth. In old Ubuntu 14.04 setup this was just working. In there any other way to solve this than the doFullFloat for VLC? BR Thomas

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Not running my startupHook on restart
by asjo＠koldfront.dk 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

I have a startupHook that spawns a number of windows on various workspaces. When I restart XMonad, I don't want those windows opened again. Is there an easy way to have startupHook only run when logging in, and not when restarting XMonad? The way I have tried to solve this, unsuccessfully, is to make my startupHook look like this: myStartup = when (noRun /= "1") $ do spawnOn "1" "emacs" spawnOn "6" "x-terminal-emulator" -- and so on... where noRun = unsafePerformIO $ env "NO_STARTUP_HOOK" "0" env :: String -> String -> IO String env variable fallthrough = getEnv variable `Control.Exception.catch` econst fallthrough (where getEnv is imported from System.Environment). And then I have changed the restart keybinding like this: , ("M-S-r", spawn "xmonad --recompile; export NO_STARTUP_HOOK=1; xmonad --restart") Unfortunately it doesn't work - I guess something "more" is going on when "xmonad --restart" runs, because if I add a key: , ("M-S-y", spawn "export HEP=yay; notify-send --expire-time 2000 'Testing' \"ENV: [$HEP]\"") then pressing M-S-y gives me an alert with the text "ENV: [yay]" in it. But if I do: , ("M-S-y", spawn "notify-send --expire-time 2000 'Testing' \"ENV: [$NO_STARTUP_HOOK]\"") the notification says "ENV: []" regardless of whether I have restarted XMonad or not. I have a feeling that I am taking the long walk to solve this - any ideas of the easy way to the goal here? Thanks! Adam -- "Här kommer rädslan, nu igen Adam Sjøgren När alla fjärilar i magen nålas upp asjo(a)koldfront.dk till ett mönster på min säng"

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More possibilities for border width customization
by Bogdan Sinitsyn 03 Jan '16

03 Jan '16

Sometimes it would be better to customize border width depending on window. Is it possible to merge this functionality into core? -- Bogdan Sinitsyn

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Wayland
by Tuncer Ayaz 02 Jan '16

02 Jan '16

Wasn't there a GSoC project to add Wayland support? In case you wonder why I'm considering it: Wayland is becoming a serious alternative, especially to solve tearing on newer Intel GPUs. Older Intel GPUs do not tear under Xorg at all, but newer ones tear constantly if you don't force vsync via compton. >From what I gather, this is a solved issue under Wayland.

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How to use virtual/on-screen keyboard in Xmonad
by Jakob Schöttl 02 Jan '16

02 Jan '16

Hello, I would like to use Xmonad to set up a custom, very restricted desktop environment on a Raspberry Pi with a touch screen. Because there is no hardware keyboard I need a virtual keyboard. I tried these programs: xvkbd, matchbox-keyboard, onboard, florence Some of them work with some other programs. But when it works, it's still buggy: - after typing I have to click two times to a new input field to set focus - virtual keyboard steals focus - other windows get invisible and only come back when they get focus (super+j) - doesn't work at all with some programs Is there a way to get virtual keyboards work with Xmonad, reliably and for all programs? Thank you! Jakob

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Slowly, slowly getting calls to getWindowAttributes in XMonad to handle exceptions
by asjo＠koldfront.dk 01 Jan '16

01 Jan '16

While fixing the "borders of RGBA-windows are weirdly coloured"-bug¹, having changed X11's getWindowAttributes to throw an exception on error, I am trying to work my way through the various calls to getWindowAttributes in the XMonad source, and handle the exceptions. With my (lacking) knowledge, it's proving somewhat difficult. Let me show you the latest call I have been trying to tackle: -- manage a new window handle (MapRequestEvent {ev_window = w}) = withDisplay $ \dpy -> do wa <- io $ getWindowAttributes dpy w -- ignore override windows -- need to ignore mapping requests by managed windows not on the current workspace managed <- isClient w when (not (wa_override_redirect wa) && not managed) $ do manage w What needs to happen is that I need to wrap this, so if getWindowAttributes throws an exception, something reasonable happens. Right. As the code does nothing if wa_override_redirect is set, maybe it makes sense to assume that if wa isn't available, wa_o_r probably isn't set(?), so we then need to go on and "do manage w" if "not managed" in that case. Ok. But how? I've tried a number of combinations of wrapping C.handle around this, similar to what I have found before², but I certainly need (to read a lot more, or, some) help - I keep getting IO () when I need X (), or the opposite, and stuff like that. Best regards, Adam ¹ https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/pull/9 depending on https://github.com/xmonad/X11/pull/35 ² An attempt at one of the other calls to getWindowAttributes: https://github.com/asjo/xmonad/commit/8c2b6047a9adf5689b6082c806dc20bb6501f… (compiles and works, but really created by guess, trial and error). -- "Sprecken Sie deutsch, baby" Adam Sjøgren asjo(a)koldfront.dk

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