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Scaling windows
by Jim Cheetham 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

I just started using XMonad on my Ubuntu 9.10 laptop a few hours ago, I think it's going to stay for a while! It is a nice window manager to combine with gnome's panels. The answer is probably "don't use Evolution", but my biggest problem right now is that when Evolution switches from the main window to a secondary one, it tries its best to resize the internal panels, and becomes visually unusable. When switching back to main, I have to resize the panels again. Any ideas for how to stop this from happening, or otherwise mitigate things? -jim

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xmonad-0.9.1 leaves zombie processes around
by Matthias Kilian 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Hi, after updating xmonad on my OpenBSD machine from 0.7 to 0.9.1 (built with ghc-6.12.2-rc1), I noticed that xmonad now leaves zombie processes around, i.e. it doesn't properly wait(2) for its terminated child processes. This happens for every single launched (and later terminated) xterm as well as for every launch of dmenu. Does anyone else see this problem? Ciao, Kili

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Issue 390 in xmonad: xmobar crashes after some minutes of work
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 390 by muellerto: xmobar crashes after some minutes of work http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=390 What steps will reproduce the problem? Difficult to explain. In my case xmobar disappears completely from the screen and the process ends surely after some minutes of work. After I started X11 with Xmonad and xmobar I can change the focus between applications, I can switch virtual screens, several times, everything looks great. But after not more than five minutes xmobar dies completely. I can't tell a more concrete reason for this. What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I see only the remaining xmobar output as long as the screen isn't painted again. After I switch to another virtual screen I see only the configured black gap on top of the screen. What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? xmobar 0.9.2, xmonad 0.9, Arch Linux x86_64 Are you using an xmonad.hs? Please attach it and the output of "xmonad --recompile". The relevant lines in my xmonad.hs are: main = do handle <- spawnPipe "xmobar" xmonad defaultConfig { This has been working very well for more than a year or so. I didn't change anything on xmonad.hs nor on .xmobarrc. Please provide any additional information below. The problem came with the last update of ghc (6.12) provided by the Arch Build System. I recompiled Xmonad manually and this runs very well. Now I also recompiled xmobar but that didn't solve the problems. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings

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ManageHook question regarding sending applications to certain workspaces.
by Mike Sampson 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

Hi XMonad users and hackers, since I have been using XMonad I have been using a manage hook to send epdfviewer (my pdf reader of choice) to a workspace "3:doc" using the usual: [ className =? "Epdfview" --> doShift "3:doc"] I would also like this workspace to be moved onto the second screen of my two screen xinerama setup. After looking through the config archive the closest I can find to this is: doShiftAndGo = doF . liftM2 (.) W.greedyView W.shift which brings the workspace the application is moved to, to the current screen. Is there a way to always bring the workspace to screen 2? Regards, Mike

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darcs patch: XMonad.Core: rw recompilation
by gwern0＠gmail.com 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

1 patch for repository http://code.haskell.org/xmonad: Sat Apr 10 12:07:55 EDT 2010 gwern0(a)gmail.com * XMonad.Core: rw recompilation This diverts the intermediate *.o *.hi files to /tmp, so they don't clutter up ~/.xmonad/

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darcs patch: new workspace sorting function in TopicSpace
by Brent Yorgey 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

Attached is a patch which adds a new exported function to TopicSpace, appropriate for providing as the ppSort field of a PP DynamicLog record, which sorts workspaces by history. The current facilities provided by TopicSpace for interfacing with DynamicLog are much too monolithic; this patch adds functionality that I want (and which others might find useful) but it really ought to be completely refactored to provide many smaller components that users can assemble however they like. -Brent

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darcs patch: Clean .hi and .o files when recompiling
by Joachim Breitner 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

Hi, I’d like to see this in the next release, to reduce the delta between xmonad as shipped by debian and as it is on hackage: Wed Sep 9 10:15:57 CEST 2009 Joachim Breitner <mail(a)joachim-breitner.de> * Clean .hi and .o files when recompiling This patch is applied to the Debian packages since a few months. During the last ghc upgrade in Debian, people had to this manually to get their xmonad compilable again. This patch should mitigate this a bit. Greetings, Joachim

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Tray icon to poweroff
by Luis Cabellos 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

hi, I just made a tray icon to poweroff/shutdown/suspend/hibernate the computer. I made it to use in xmonad, with stalonetray. I hope someone think it's useful also, feedback welcome. Thanks, Luis Cabellos

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Re: Re: xmonad Digest, Vol 37, Issue 4
by Alejandro Serrano Mena 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

> > > From: Alexandre <ac007(a)bluewin.ch> > Subject: Re: [xmonad] Re: xmonad Digest, Vol 37, Issue 4 > To: xmonad(a)haskell.org > Message-ID: > <snqy0r4mvpjyxgiabdsmca9jkdtsiaocqvsvnjq3pfhfnufe(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:03:52PM +0200, Jan Vornberger wrote: > > By the way: Since you are apparently using decorations, what is your > > experience with them in general? Are you on a dual-head setup or just a > > single monitor? Because the decoration code really needs some work, I'm > > afraid. Sometimes I have problems with 'left-over' title bars that won't > > disappear and such things. I reckon there aren't many people on this > > list that are using decoration, are there? > > Although the question was not addressed to me... :) > > Not sure if the problem is with 'Layout.Decoration' or specifically with > 'Layout.Tabbed' but : > > In a 'tabbed' workspace, switching from a "normal" application to a > "transparent" urxvt is slow (1-2 seconds). On the other hand, switching > between 2 (undecorated) workspaces containing a transparent urxvt is > almost instantanous. > > I'm not using urxvt with transparency anymore, because i like tabbed > more than transparency :p > > Sorry, I didn't see the message because I answered the other one without changing the subject line :( My experience with decorations is mostly great. I only have one problem: when I click maximize (most of the times because of I miss the close button and click maximize instead) the decoration seems to appear behind the window, and only the "menu" button is shown, so I have to enter the menu to de-maximize it. Even more, when I maximize a window, it does not expand to the entire window. I use it title bars with dragging visualizers and window switchers and I haven't found any special issue with using both, so I'm very happy with it :) Some times I've seen some left-over title bars, mostly when switching a window to another workspace. But it does not happen frequently. For me, it only happens when I try to open Eclipse, and then think I should switch it to another workspace, so I move the initial window to the another workspace, but then the "loading" window disappears and only a title bar is left. Maybe some race condition between showing the title bar and closing the window. Finally, I may add that I've developed a little Gnome panel applet to show which windows are minimized. I think it's a better idea than showing all open windows (as in Gnome panel), or not showing none. Then I use the panel above to use a global menu, so windows have more space to show actual contents. I did a screenshot http://twitpic.com/1c1zu0 As Alexandre, I'm a very happy XMonad user, even I just did the change about 2 weeks ago :)

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Image buttons in title bars
by Alejandro Serrano Mena 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

Hi, I've implemented a way to show not only text buttons in titlebars but also image buttons. I attach a patch with the neccessary code, basically some extensions to XMonad.Util.XUtils and XMonad.Layout.Decoration, and a theme which uses the code: XMonad.Layout.ImageButtonDecoration. Thanks in advance.

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