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darcs permissions error?
by Brent Yorgey 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

I tried pushing a patch to the xmonad-contrib repo today and got the following error: darcs: takeLock /home/srv/code/XMonadContrib/_darcs/lock in /home/srv/code/XMonadContrib: atomic_create /home/srv/code/XMonadContrib/_darcs/lock in /home/srv/code/XMonadContrib: permission denied (Permission denied) Anyone have any ideas about the cause? -Brent

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tiling a window from manage hook?
by Sean Allen 30 Mar '11

30 Mar '11

If I want to shift windows to a different workspace using manage hooks, is there a way to also sink them so they are tiled rather than being the floating windows they default to? Ideally it would be like doShift "somewhere" <+> doTile but there isn't doTile of course. how does one go about accomplishing that?

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Descriptive keys
by Tony Morris 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Hi, I wrote a module for annotating key-bindings with a description and one or more 'tags' then supplying a key-binding for a prompt to search through them. I would appreciate feedback and possible interest for inclusion in xmonad-extras or perhaps other suitable package. https://bitbucket.org/dibblego/descriptive-keys/src/tip/src/XMonad/Config/D… -- Tony Morris http://tmorris.net/

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Mod Key Issues - Sometimes
by Matt Freeman 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

I been using Xmonad for a few months. My config is pretty simple, about the minimum 10 line example. When I first started I was using the default mod key of alt, this worked well 95% of time, although some programs alt key to access the menu would no longer be available. I also occasionally noticed that mod+l and mod+h would occasionally stop work, not frequently enough to curse but still annoying have to logout and back in again. Recently I switched to win key as my mod key. This works 98% of time. But in certain programs e.g. part of Rhythm box. I.e. once you go to Radio start a stream then window key binding doesnt (in most other parts of the app its fine), and still the occasionally not working on h and l. 98% is better than 95% Is this a known frustration and what is the best way to compensate when such problems occur? -- w: http://www.mattfreeman.co.uk/ t: http://www.twitter.com/mattcodes

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Dual screen setup with (dual-screen) workspace swithching
by Kuba 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Hi, I am quite new to xmonad, but I find it quite useful :D (compared to my window-dragging coworkers, who don't see the sense :D) The story is: I have a working dual-screen setup, where each screen is a workspace. This is probably the most default way to have it... My problem is, that I mostly work with apps that produce a lot of windows. This is the first reason why I have dual-screen setup after all... So I arrange nicely all the windows on the two screens (say [1] and [2]), but I also work with multiple instances of the application. That means I have another application (with similarly-looking windows) on screens [2] and [3]. And another on [4][5]. And another.... Now here's the catch: When I want to switch to the other project (2,3) i need to change BOTH workspaces (say: mod-w,mod-3, mod-e,mod-4). Then to go back the procedure repeats. This is annoying... It is even more annoying if I forget on which dual-workspaces my apps were, and I mess instance 1 with instance 2 (say have workspaces [1] and [4]). Then my app responds in silly way (of course) and I don't see why... So the question is: Is it possible to have a setup with 'dual-screen,dual-sub-workspace' workspaces? So to have [1][2] merged in [super1] and [3][4] merged into [super2] ? So when I switch to [super1] i get [1][2], and so on... It could be that [1][2] is merged into a big [1] (but preserving the mod-w,mod-e functionality!! That's a must!), so that (mod-shift-1) would move some other window to that workspace... I don't mind that it would end up in either say [1a] or [1b], that I can manage later ;) Thanks and regards, Kuba

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Re: [xmonad] Misleading documentation for XMonad.Actions.Search
by Wirt Wolff 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Excerpts from Gwern Branwen's message of Mon Mar 21 20:33:54 -0600 2011: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Wirt Wolff <wirtwolff(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Something else to note and fix is that as it stands in the current darcs > > version, wikipedia and wiktionary don't work properly with any of these > > intelligent searches. (Probably because their urls contain the ':' > > character.) > > I don't follow. At least with the infixr, output seems correct: > .... > *XMonad.Actions.Search Control.Monad Data.Char Data.List> use > (wikipedia !> hoogle !> prefixAware google) "hoogle:foo" > "http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?q=foo" > *XMonad.Actions.Search Control.Monad Data.Char Data.List> use multi "wiki:foo" > "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?go=Go&search=foo" > Ugh, indeed. Sorry for the noise. I'm not sure what went wrong earlier. I've too many ghci's open, and just recently cleaned out my ~/.cabal from old versions of xmonad and rebuilt clean with the infixr. So must have had wrong versions of something loaded. On the bright side, the counterexamples I needlessly dragged out of you clearly demonstrate how much cleaner is the properly defined !> in comparison with leaving it as is. thanks, Gwern. -- wmw

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Misleading documentation for XMonad.Actions.Search
by Mats Rauhala 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

The documentation for (!>) in XMonad.Actions.Search is misleading. The documentation says "> multiEngine = intelligent (wikipedia !> mathworld !> (prefixAware google))", but this syntax doesn't provide the expected behaviour. See *XMonad.Actions.Search> use (wikipedia !> hoogle !> prefixAware google) "hoogle:foo" "http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=hoogle%3Afoo" compared to: *XMonad.Actions.Search> use (wikipedia !> (hoogle !> (prefixAware google))) "hoogle:foo" "http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?q=foo" I propose changing the documentation from <snip>"intelligent (wikipedia !> mathworld !> (prefixAware google))"</snip> to <snip>"intelligent (wikipedia !> (mathworld !> (prefixAware google)))"</snip>

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XMonad.Prompt.File (attached)
by John J Foerch 20 Mar '11

20 Mar '11

Hello, I had need in my config for a filename prompt. XMonad-Contrib contains XMonad.Prompt.Directory, so I just copied it and made the appropriate substitutions to make XMonad.Prompt.File. It would be great if this could be added to xmonad-contrib so it will be there for the next person who needs this functionality. -- John Foerch

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More restricted version of XMonad.Actions.UpdatePointer
by Weeble 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

Right now I use updatePointer to move the pointer to the focused window. The main scenario where I want this is when I'm switching between windows with the keyboard and then decide to use the mouse for something - it can then be surprising that the mouse pointer is in a window without keyboard focus and that I need to move it out and back in again to get it back. However, there are various situations where it triggers when I don't want it, especially with applications that try to be clever with lots of small floating windows. I would quite like to restrict it only to trigger when I issue a MOD+J or MOD+K command to xmonad. Is that possible? Perhaps I can just rebind those keys in some way to roll in the pointer moving behaviour, and not bother with updatePointer?

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float above a float?
by Sean Allen 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

On with my eclipse saga. Actually going pretty well thanks to help from here and reading various configs on the xmonad site. I have a number of detached windows from eclipse that i float. Is there a way when transient windows get popped up to have them be the top floating window of all floating windows? Right now, they are often partially obscured by other floating windows. If not, I suppose I will move on to seeing if instead of floating the detached windows if I can lay them out in a specific layout on open. thanks, sean

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