April 2022 - xmonad - Haskell.org

Hopefully Very Simple Question
by Michael Needham 14 Apr '22

14 Apr '22

Greetings: I am very happy with my xmonad now. Fixed it with your help and the help of the DT (YouTube) community though this community was able to help me the most. THANK-YOU! My new issue is annoying to me and not something that keeps the system from working. I am using isDialog to spawn dialog boxes as floating windows. They spawn floating but show up to the right top of the screen. I would like them always be centered. Is this possible and if so how do I modify the layout statement? Thanks, Regards, Michael Needham

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Loghook Help
by Michael Needham 10 Apr '22

10 Apr '22

Hi Guys, still struggling with my xmobar config on xmonad. I have been trying to add loghook to spawn my workspaces on xmobar via StdinReader and right now my xmobar spawns with "Updaing..." where the workspaces should appear. A helpful person did give me a hint which is to use a loghook to outputPP to get the data from my xmproc (which is a spawnPipe) and I guess I am not understanding. I have attached my xmonad.hs and there is a pleace to add whatever loghook I need to get the workspaces to show up. The config is I believe darcs from the Haskell.org site. I need to know where exactly in here to put the loghook statement and how to setup that section in my xmonad.hs. The current part of the section looks like: " myLogHook = return ()." Hope someone can uncloud the explanations that I am getting because all Google Searches and Haskell documentation just doesn't seem to work (always get errors about out of scrope and I believe the imports are all there for everything I am trying to use. (please feel free to correct me if I am not importing something). Thanks, -- Kind Regards, *John Michael Needham *

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Same stuff new day
by Michael Needham 09 Apr '22

09 Apr '22

Hello Again: Still struggling with my xmobar config and workspaces issues. Figured out something I don't quite get why it is not working, but in xmobarrc I am using ", RUN StdinReader" (and have tried the UnsafeStdinReader variation as well) and this causes xmobar not to run at startup again. If I start xmobar from the terminal it runs and does not error. in my xmobar.hs it is called via xproc inside my main do block. I am attaching both files as they appear today. Thank you guys for all the help so far. Please do tell me if I am missing some imports or something I need! Also all the fonts listed are installed and verified as in my fc-cache on the EOS system. -- Kind Regards, *John Michael Needham*

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Still having issues and can't seem to get 'workspaces' solved. This is borking my xmobar too.
by Michael Needham 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

Hello All and thanks for the past help and patience with me as I am learning both Haskell and use of Xmonad / Xmobar! I don't get errors when I run xmobar from the terminal, however, it no longer starts on login (xession) from lightdm or startx either. When I run it from terminal it just shows "Updating" where the workspaces should be. But is used to startup with the TWM and I am on one monitor (0) and so there is one xproc statement. Attached is today's version of xmobarrc and xmonad.hs so if someone can help me figure out workspaces that is my problem (apparently). I have been using another persons configs to enhance my own which were very vanilla examples from haskell.org (config archives) and a very standard (common) minimal xmobar config from a search on the web. I have all the fonts I am trying to load loaded and I am running on EndeavourOS (Arch based Linux) but all the Arch wiki advice has worked in the past. Just still wearing noob clothes when it comes to xmonad :) Please see attached files: -- Kind Regards, *John Michael Needham*

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New couple of problems with xmonad 0.17
by Michael Needham 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

Hello again: The journey continues. I have Xmonad on EndeavourOS running in almost basic form and I am going to start by pasting my whole xmobarrc and xmonad.hs files here. I am attaching them so I hope this works. I am getting an error when I try to restart that xmonad is not in path (using mod - q) but it now works fine from lightdm and startx commands. It recompiles without errors. The workstations are not showing up in xmobar though the previous issue with xmobar was resolved by proc call in xmonad.hs to include -x 0 in the xproc (see attached xmonad.hs) Hopefully I can get the hs file tweaked so that xmobar has picom transparency and get the workspaces to show up, which is what I am not sure I set that up correctly in my xmond.hs. Hope someone can spot the error for me or suggest a fix. Everyone have a great day (BTW) would like the workspaces clickable as well as hotkey changeable. Thanks in advance. Files attached.

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Configuration Issue version 0.17
by Michael Needham 02 Apr '22

02 Apr '22

Hello all: I am not sure how I borked my xmonad been trying to configure it to run trayer xmobar and dmenu and started working with it today. I added workspaces to the config and now it appears this has borked my xmobar. I am simply trying to get xmobar to show the workspaces. Xmobar starts and then quits I can restart from terminal but the minute I close the terminal it disappears again. I have to assume I am doing something wrong as it worked before the workspaces. please see both config files below xmobarrc: ------------------ Config { overrideRedirect = False , font = "xft:ubunutu" , bgColor = "#5f5f5f" , fgColor = "#f8f8f2" , position = TopW L 90 , commands = [ Run Weather "KMCI" [ "--template", "<weather> <tempC>°C" , "-L", "0" , "-H", "25" , "--low" , "lightblue" , "--normal", "#f8f8f2" , "--high" , "red" ] 36000 , Run Cpu [ "-L", "3" , "-H", "50" , "--high" , "red" , "--normal", "green" ] 10 , Run Alsa "default" "Master" [ "--template", "<volumestatus>" , "--suffix" , "True" , "--" , "--on", "" ] , Run Memory ["--template", "Mem: <usedratio>%"] 10 , Run Swap [] 10 , Run Date "%a %Y-%m-%d <fc=#8be9fd>%H:%M</fc>" "date" 10 , Run XMonadLog ] , sepChar = "%" , alignSep = "}{" , template = "%XMonadLog% }{ %alsa:default:Master% | %cpu% | %memory% * %swap% | %KMCI% | %date% " } _____________ xmonad.hs: ------------------------ Config { overrideRedirect = False , font = "xft:ubunutu" , bgColor = "#5f5f5f" , fgColor = "#f8f8f2" , position = TopW L 90 , commands = [ Run Weather "KMCI" [ "--template", "<weather> <tempC>°C" , "-L", "0" , "-H", "25" , "--low" , "lightblue" , "--normal", "#f8f8f2" , "--high" , "red" ] 36000 , Run Cpu [ "-L", "3" , "-H", "50" , "--high" , "red" , "--normal", "green" ] 10 , Run Alsa "default" "Master" [ "--template", "<volumestatus>" , "--suffix" , "True" , "--" , "--on", "" ] , Run Memory ["--template", "Mem: <usedratio>%"] 10 , Run Swap [] 10 , Run Date "%a %Y-%m-%d <fc=#8be9fd>%H:%M</fc>" "date" 10 , Run XMonadLog ] , sepChar = "%" , alignSep = "}{" , template = "%XMonadLog% }{ %alsa:default:Master% | %cpu% | %memory% * %swap% | %KMCI% | %date% " } --------------------- Hope someone can tell me to revert back or properly add workspaces. I really only want clickable workspaces and launch a terminal on ws 2 and also volume control in trayer with the pipewire controls for proaudio (like gnome volume control or KDE Plasman pa. Thanks in advance and hope someone can see where it went wrong. Thanks in advnace. -- Kind Regards, *Michael Needham*

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Total Noob to Xmonad
by Michael Needham 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

Greetings all; I am brand new to TWMs altogether but have used UNIX and UNIX- like systems for a little over 30 years now. This has been both professionally and personally, I am a System Admin who also develops software. The latter started in 1990 while in college, taking C++ and Java classes and through my part-time internship at my school, writing KSH scripts and data entry work on an IBM AIX server. So I am learning Haskell and Rust now to round out my knowledge of many languages and using EndeavourOS (Arch based) Linux as my daily driver. My machine is a 9+ year old HP Z400 Workstation with 16gb Ram and 500gb SSD. Has some other various USB bits and bobs too all which show up fine running lsusb. I have a very base install of Xmonad 0.17 (compiled from source) and the companion contrib also from source. There is also Xmobar, dmenu and trayer installed. It works, kind of. Using keybindings I can run all apps from dmenu and the regular keys work. My xmonad.hs is just an import of XMonad and defaults set to modMask = mon4Mask and terminal = “alacritty “. I can get into Xmonad through startx ( which in .xinitrc the file is the supplied version from the EOS repository) with the last lines removed and added exec Xmonad). Have to date tried 2 display login managers lightdm and sddm and this system was built initially with XFCE and that has been removed plus dependancies. So Xmonad is the only de currently. All the gtk and qt apps are still installed, and run from dmenu or invoked from CLI. What happens is the dm of choice runs from systemctl just fine. At login you get your dialog box and put in your password, then the machine tries to load the session and just drops you back to the login screen. Upon disabling lightdm or sddm (no matter which, they both behave as described above) you can reboot from an alternate tty (eg cnttl-alt-f2) and reboot. Have tried Xmonad —recompile from alt tty and this hangs the x-session running on tty 0 so I reboot from alt tty and rinse and repeat. So currently the dm is disabled and I through much reading and watching a few tutorials as well as going through the Xmonad documentation, believe it is a PAM Authentication issue? I do have lxsession installed and I think I need a little clarification on what exactly needs to go into Xmonad.hs as far as imports and perhaps hooks. If I am wrong about my conclusion, please advise. I currently have decided to go with sddm if anyone decides to reply. Thank you for help in advance and please forgive me for my verbose post. Regards, Michael Needham

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