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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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tiny config file gives error, please can someone take a quick look at it?
by jenia.ivlev＠gmail.com 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

Hello. I want to use xmobar and to switch "alt" with "super" key for xmonad key binding. I have therefore setup this config file (someone gave it to me, I don't know Haskell). But it gives me errors and I can't figure out why: 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 } So how do I fix this program? How do I configure xmobar to start with xmonad (and not hide behind opened windows) and swtich "alt" with "super"? Thanks in advance for your time and kind concern. jenia

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Issue 584 in xmonad: Random crashes with vim running in Termite
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 584 by Svanti...(a)gmail.com: Random crashes with vim running in Termite https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=584 What steps will reproduce the problem? Open Termite and console vim in it. Enable jedi-vim plugin and edit some Python source code. When code-completion pops up, select anything and hit Enter to accept. From time to time XMonad will crash. Very hard to tell when it happens, because it sometimes does and sometimes not. Tried hard to investigate more, but with no results. In system console outside X-server jedi-vim runs with no problem. What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? Arch Linux x86_64, vim 7.4, jedi-vim plugin and XMonad 0.11 from official Arch repositories. GHC version: 7.8.3. Are you using an xmonad.hs? Please attach it and the output of "xmonad --recompile". $ xmonad --recompile gives no output. Attachments: xmonad.hs 150 bytes -- You received this message because this project is configured to send all issue notifications to this address. You may adjust your notification preferences at: https://code.google.com/hosting/settings

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patch: Add search string to X.A.GridSelect grid
by Dmitri Iouchtchenko 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

I find it very convenient to be able to use GridSelect to choose an option that isn't in the original list of options. One of the uses of this is to switch to a dynamic workspace that doesn't yet exist.

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darcs patch: BinarySpacePartition downstream changes
by benweitzman＠gmail.com 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

1 patch for repository http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib: Mon Nov 10 15:22:59 EST 2014 benweitzman(a)gmail.com * BinarySpacePartition downstream changes Pulled in changes from my repo for this layout on github (https://github.com/benweitzman/BinarySpacePartition) Includes a new mode for resizing windows in a more intuitive way, also contains a bug fix that was preventing users from resiving a window up. Includes changes from github users egasimus (Adam Avramov) and SolitaryCipher (Nick)

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