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Run program on second screen.
by Dontdie YCH 18 Jan '15

18 Jan '15

Hello all, Anyone guide me how to spawn(or 'runOrRaise') program on second screen? My xmonad.hs, http://lpaste.net/118660 Thanks.

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announce: xmonad-entryhelper
by Javran Cheng 17 Jan '15

17 Jan '15

xmonad-entryhelper <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-entryhelper> This package is for those who loves to keep things in sandboxes. After suffering from dependency hell several times, I find it really helps to minimize system level packages and keep other packages either in user level or in sandboxes. I was able to remove xmonad from system packages, and have ~/.xinitrc to call my compiled xmonad config. But soon I realized, different from xmonad itself, the compiled config cannot do some fancy stuff like up-to-date checking, recompilation & send xmonad restart requests. Therefore I wrote this package to wrap the main function to deal with xmonad arguments like --recompile and --restart. This makes the compiled binary behave like xmonad binary itself. Additionally with this package you will be able to customize recompiling action: for example you can use Makefile to manage your xmonad config and set environment variable $XMONAD_HOME to your xmonad path. Then you can make your "xmonad --recompile" call shell command "cd ${XMONAD_HOME} && make all" to do the job. Hope you like this package! -- Javran (Fang) Cheng

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darcs patch: Layout.Spacing: Outer window edges now get as much spa...
by felixc＠felixcrux.com 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

Hello XMonad contributors! I've attached here my first patch to XMonadContrib; specifically to the Layout.Spacing component. This change makes it so that all edges of all windows have the same amount of space around them, regardless of whether they're up against the edge of the screen. This matches my personal preference, but I don't know whether the original behaviour was by design or if this style of spacing was already considered and rejected. I'd welcome any discussion on the pros and cons of doing things this way, as well as finding out whether anyone objects to this change. At the end of the day it's up to you whether this patch should be included. Thank you to geekosaur and fizzie in #xmonad for their help with the tricky question of determining whether a Workspace has just one window on it, for the smartSpacing part. All the best, Felix 1 patch for repository http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib: Thu Dec 18 20:47:34 EST 2014 Felix Crux <felixc(a)felixcrux.com> * Layout.Spacing: Outer window edges now get as much spacing as inner ones Layout.Spacing applies a customizable amount of space around the outside of each window. At window edges where two windows meet, the total distance between them is therefore twice the customized value (one space value from each window). At the edge of the screen, however, the spacing is only applied once. This results in uneven amounts of spacing and differently-sized gaps on the screen. This patch extends the Spacing layout to include a further gap all around the edge of the screen, thus making all spaces around windows equal in size.

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Integrated screen lock in xmonad?
by Erik de Castro Lopo 06 Jan '15

06 Jan '15

Hi all, I'm currently using gnome-screensaver to lock my xmonad sessions, but I was wondering if anyone had put together anything like a an integrated lock screen as a replacement. The reason I want this is that I'd like to extend my lock screen with sound volume and audio pause/play buttons and I *do not want* to try hacking on either gnome-screensaver or xscreensaver. If no one has done it, a pointer in the right direction would be appreciated. Cheers, Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/

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Fix invisible borders
by Igor Babuschkin 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

Hi, I just browsed through the mailing list and noticed that some people were having problems with borders disappearing when viewing RGBA windows. This happened to me with Nautilus, Evince, Chrome and others. I've written a tiny fix for this more than 6 months ago, but never contributed it. (Didn't manage to install darcs. Just tried again for an hour and failed again) Thought I should post this in case someone is still suffering from it. The patch flips the transparency bits in addition to the color bits specified by the user. (They are 0x00 otherwise and result in full transparency) --- XMonad/Main.hsc 2013-01-01 02:31:47.000000000 +0100 +++ ../xmonad-0.11-fixed/XMonad/Main.hsc 2014-06-15 13:25:20.766852974 +0200 @@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ { display = dpy , config = xmc , theRoot = rootw - , normalBorder = nbc - , focusedBorder = fbc + , normalBorder = nbc + 0xFF000000 -- fix invisible borders + , focusedBorder = fbc + 0xFF000000 -- , keyActions = keys xmc xmc , buttonActions = mouseBindings xmc xmc , mouseFocused = False Cheers, Igor

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putEnv from Prompt.Input
by Eric Mrak 04 Jan '15

04 Jan '15

I'm trying to set up a prompt to dynamically change environment variables (say, http_proxy). I'm using Prompt.Input (inputPrompt) to query for values such as "VAR=val" and passing those along to putEnv. The problem is when I start a new terminal using the standard mod+shift+enter the environment does not have VAR=val in it. Is there something I'm missing about how XMonad forks processes and passes along exported values? The only place putEnv seems to work is main, which is not dynamic. updateEnvVar :: String -> X () updateEnvVar s = catchIO $ putEnv s defaultConfig { ... } `additionalKeysP` [ ("M-e", inputPrompt myPromptConfig "set env" ?+ updateEnvVar) ] Thanks for any help

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To what xmonad renames the Menu key?
by jenia.ivlev＠gmail.com 28 Dec '14

28 Dec '14

Hello. I typically swap the Menu and the right Ctrl keys. I used to do with xmodmap: remove Control = Control_R keysym Menu = Control_R keysym Control_R = Menu add Control = Control_R I just switch them around. The menu key becomes ctrl and the right ctrl becomes the menu key. This stopped working all of a sudden. Also, I noticed that the menu key has become the mod key. I'm wondering if xmonad remapped the menu to become the mod key? If yes, how is it called? Maybe "Mod_R", or "Mod_2" or something? Although, I tried these two names and it didnt seem to work. So again, how do I switch places the right Mod key and the right Ctrl? Thanks in advance for your time and help. Jenia.

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How to start xmonad with lxde?
by jenia.ivlev＠gmail.com 28 Dec '14

28 Dec '14

Hello. I want to start xmonad in another tty. I would like it to use lxde as the Desktop Environement. I read that in order to do that I need to leave the following in the xmonad's config file (~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs): main = xmonad $ desktopConfig { terminal = "lxterminal" } When I recompile the file in xmonad: xmonad --recompile I get the following error: xmonad.hs:1:59: parse error (possibly incorrect indentation or mismatched brackets) Can someone please tell me how to achive starting xmonad with lxde? Thanks in advance for your kind help P.S To start xmonad in the first place (no lxde) I use this: startx /usr/bin/xmonad

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xmodmap stopped working normally all of a sudden
by jenia.ivlev＠gmail.com 26 Dec '14

26 Dec '14

Hello. I used to have this xmodmap config: remove Control = Control_R keysym Menu = Control_R keysym Control_R = Super_L add Control = Control_R remove Lock = Caps_Lock remove Control = Control_L keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L add Lock = Caps_Lock add Control = Control_L It used to work perfectly and it still works in LXDE. So, it must be that something changed in xmonad recently. The error I'm getting is that the "Menu key... its a non existant key". When I used `xev` and press the Menu key it tells me "keycode 135, Menu". So I'm wondering maybe xmonad somehow remaned this key to be Mod_R or something? I tried that actually, didnt seem to work. So my question is, how do I swtich the Right-Control and the Menu keys around? Also as I side note, started xmonad treats the Menu key as Mod key, but the applications still treat it as the Menu key. So when you press it - lets say you press "Mod_Right-1" this will do two things: 1. It will open a Menu in the current app. 2. It will switch to the desktop 2. So to reiterate, I need to switch the Mod_Right with Control_Right. And if possible, to completly remove the Menu key. Normally I achived this doing the following: remove Control = Control_R keysym Menu = Control_R keysym Control_R = Super_L add Control = Control_R Doesnt work anymore. Thanks in advance for your kind help and time. Jenia

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How to make the menu key your mod key too?
by jenia.ivlev＠gmail.com 25 Dec '14

25 Dec '14

Hello. I set my mod key to be the "super" key. This setup needs two very precise and small additional features: 1. I'm really used to using the alt-tab for window switching. How can I set alt-tab to work for switching windows like before? Just to reiterate, even though I set mob to be "super key" before, I would like alt-tab to work as usual, like in vanilla xmonad. 2. And two, I would like there to be a mod key on the right side of the keyboard too. So I decided to use the "menu key" for that. How do I map my "menu key" to be mod too? I'm wondering if someone has done this or knows how to do it. Thanks very much in advnace for your kind help and concern. jenia ================================================================================= This is my config file: import XMonad import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog main = xmonad =<< statusBar cmd pp kb conf where cmd = "xmobar" pp = xmobarPP kb (XConfig {XMonad.modMask = modMask}) = (modMask, xK_b) conf = myConfig myConfig = defaultConfig { borderWidth = 2 , terminal = "urxvt" , modMask = mod4Mask }

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