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How to have separate layout sets per screen in XMonad?
by Tal Walter 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

Hi all! Is it possible to define 2 separate layout sets one per monitor in use? (not one per workspace) The use case is basically to have layouts with a master area on the left side for my right monitor, and the same layouts only 'reflected horizontally' (using Layout.Reflect) on my left monitor (i.e. master area on the right), so that, overall, the master areas are always in the center of the total estate of the 2 monitors. A solution that has separate layout sets per screen should be more than enough for this. I have a vague memory of finding such a module way back when, but I've went through the entirety of xmonad-contrib recently (looked at xmonad-extras as well) and didn't find a solution for this. There are separate layouts per workspace, and having separate workspaces per screen, but I want to switch between the 2 monitors on the fly and have consistent layouts as described above. So this solution won't work. In case I'm not missing any module in contrib, could someone please point me in a good starting direction as to how to implement such a thing? Any help is greatly appreciated!

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Alt+Tab on a per workspace basis.
by "Peter Krauß" 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

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Dual monitor hotplug issue
by Miles Sabin 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

Hi folks, I have laptop which is usually connected to a large external monitor. When it's connected, the external monitor is configured as the X primary using Xrandr. When I disconnect the external monitor the X configuration is automatically updated using autorandr, turning off the external monitor and setting the laptop panel as the primary. The switch of primary causes xmobar to automatically switch from the external monitor to the laptop panel, which is what I want. Unfortunately, a lot of windows are also moved onto the workspace which is visible on the laptop panel. Some of these are from the workspace which was visible on the monitor which has just been removed, but others are from workspaces which weren't visible on either the external or the laptop panel. How would I disable this behaviour? I want the primary to switch to the laptop panel, but I would like windows in workspaces that were on the disconnected monitor to stay part of their now invisible workspaces. This is with xmonad 0.11. Cheers, Miles -- Miles Sabin tel: +44 7813 944 528 skype: milessabin gtalk: miles(a)milessabin.com http://milessabin.com/blog http://twitter.com/milessabin

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Fwd: Add layout hook for ScreenCorners
by Евгений Курневский 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

Hi all. I've added the layout hook for ScreenCorners. It's needed because other windows can cover ours corner windows. (sorry if it is duplicate)

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Canonical repo for xmonad-extras
by Tuncer Ayaz 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

I was trying to find the canonical repository for xmonad-extras, and while searching, I wondered why it's not part of github.com/xmonad?

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Using sakura with xmonad
by asjo＠koldfront.dk 21 Nov '15

21 Nov '15

Hi. I recently changed from using xterm to sakura: * https://code.launchpad.net/sakura (primarily because the fonts in xterm look bad when scaled x1.5, and I have to do that on my stationary monitor...) The sakura windows automatically get a thin transparent border with XMonad, through which my desktop background image shows. I would like for this to not happen - as it is distracting. You can see the unwanted effect here: * http://koldfront.dk/misc/xmonad/sakura-xmonad.png compared to what it looks like with xterm: * http://koldfront.dk/misc/xmonad/uxterm-xmonad.png I have tried searching the sakura code and changing random things related to border, rgba, and transparent, but my wild guesses have not been fruitful. Does anyone have any good ideas? I am using running compton (I like the pretty, transparent notifications), in case that matters. OH! I just tried killing compton, and that removed the problem! I guess I should bark up another, uhm, mailing list? Hm, I found this: https://github.com/chjj/compton/issues/139 which is the same problem with another wm, compton, and sakura, and it seems the wm was fixed - so maybe I am in the right place after all? There are some hints here: https://github.com/chjj/compton/issues/240 about what might be the same issue in xmonad. Best regards, Adam -- "Hackers are lazy, in the same way that Adam Sjøgren mathematicians and modernist architects are lazy: asjo(a)koldfront.dk they hate anything extraneous."

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Multiple threads
by Ernesto Rodriguez 21 Nov '15

21 Nov '15

Dear List, Is it possible to render things in the XServer with multiple threads? For example: dpy <- asks display myWin <- createSimpleWindow dpy (defaultRootWindow dpy) 0 0 10 10 black white _ <- forkOS $ do -- doStuff with myWin using dpy When I attempt doing things like that, I usually get a deadlock. Is there any way to do this (I know, X is old :( but no harm in asking). Thank you and best regards, Ernesto Rodriguez -- Ernesto Rodriguez Masters Student Computer Science Utrecht University www.netowork.me github.com/netogallo

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insertPosition and transient floating windows
by Peter Jones 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

I love that insertPosition can keep new windows from going into the master area, but there's one small annoyance w.r.t. transient floating windows. I'm using `insertPosition Below Newer` with `composeOne`. When a password dialog appears, and the master window previously had the focus, the dialog gets focused and is put in the center of the screen. That part is perfect. The problem comes when I dismiss the dialog. At that point I would expect the master window to regain focus, but one of the slave windows does instead. Of course, removing `insertPosition` fixes my issue. This is what I have in my configuration in an attempt to avoid this issue: composeOne [ pure True -?> insertPosition Below Newer , isFloating -?> doCenterFloat ] `isFloating` comes from XMonad.Hooks.FadeWindows and I have it in there hoping to *not* apply `insertPosition` when the current window is already floating. Any suggestions? -- Peter Jones, Founder, Devalot.com Defending the honor of good code

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xmonad.org sources?
by Tuncer Ayaz 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

Where can I find the xmonad.org website sources? Was it forgotten in the git transition?

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switch workspace on all monitors at once
by Kristopher Keller 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

Hi, I'm using three monitors and each monitor has 10 workspaces. This is the code I'm using to switch workspaces: [code] myWorkspaces = withScreens 3 ["1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9"] ... [((m .|. modm, k), windows $ onCurrentScreen f i) | (i, k) <- zip (workspaces' conf) [xK_1 .. xK_9] , (f, m) <- [(W.greedyView, 0), (W.shift, shiftMask)]] [/code] I wanted to modify it to add a keybind to switch the workspace on all three monitors at once. For example, control + modm + 2 would switch all monitors to workspace 2. But I'm afraid I don't understand whats going on in that code. Could someone give me a hand? Kristopher

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