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a floating gimp... what does 'floating' really mean?
by Andrea Rossato 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

Hi, i' just pushed some patches to my repository here: http://gorgias.mine.nu/repos/xmonad-contrib/ among the one that adds a simple floating layout, based on the new stuff I've been coding lately. See the gimp in action: http://gorgias.mine.nu/xmonadShots/gimpFloatingAroung.png there's no mouse interface so far, but you can move and resize windows with the keyboard (which actually fulfills my needs...;). To test it, just try my default configuration (you need xmobar I think): import XMonad import XMonad.Config.Arossato (arossatoConfig) main = xmonad =<< arossatoConfig I'd like to add the fact that the real part of the SimpleFloat layout is made up of 15 lines of code. Many of them could be removed by a real coder...;) Hope you'll enjoy. Andrea

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that's it
by Andrea Rossato 26 Jan '08

26 Jan '08

Hi, we have been waiting this new 0.6 release for quite sometime now, and, instead of branching the code to be released so not to block developers from pushing new features and having users try them out, providing useful feedback, ideas, bugs reports, and so on, we have a freezed repository, which is quite a useless thing, as far as I understand. The last patch is 11 days old. I hoped I could use this quiet period of time, the one between the end of the first semester and the start of the second, to code a new decoration framework, something I wanted since we moved to the class approach, in order to replace the old David's Decorations. That would require some testing, some discussion, some ideas, but probably, when this code will be pushed, I'll be back to work, I won't have the code fresh in my mind, so I will have to spend more time to fix it, or to improve it, or to add new features. I already have something in mind (a mouse interface), but I'm not going to write a single line of code as long as a decision on the code I've already produced have been taken. So, this is the code: a small patch to the core (to add the emptyLayout to the LayoutClass class), and the new decoration framework. I hope you understand I'm not complaining. I share the lack of time problem. On the other hand I hope you understand that such a project management is discouraging people from writing new code. Or at least it discourage me. So, that's it. I'll see you *after* 0.6 is out. Cheers, Andrea a minimum working example: import XMonad import XMonad.Layout.Tabbed import XMonad.Layout.DwmStyle import XMonad.Layout.SimpleDecoration myL = tabDeco shrinkText defaultTabbedConfig ||| simpleDeco shrinkText defaultSimpleConfig (layoutHook defaultConfig) ||| dwmStyle shrinkText defaultDwmStyleConfig (layoutHook defaultConfig) main = xmonad defaultConfig { layoutHook = myL }

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xmonad user survey!
by Don Stewart 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

Hey all, xmonad's reaching a fairly stable place featurewise (and stability-wise too). Now is perhaps a good time to ask people what we can do to improve xmonad further. * What things annoy you? * What things do you like? * What things can be done better? * What things are missing? * What things do you miss from ion/wmii/dwm/compiz * What things do you not miss from ion/wmii/dwm/compiz ... :) If you've any suggestions for things we can change to make xmonad better fit your workflow or whatever, please shout out! If you grumble when xmonad doesn't do something you think it should -- let us know! With information like this we can continue to improve our progressive window manager :) -- Don

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darcs patch: Layout.ShowWName: generalize the instance (and 10 more)
by Andrea Rossato 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

Tue Jan 15 05:51:39 CET 2008 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * Layout.ShowWName: generalize the instance Fri Jan 18 20:01:45 CET 2008 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * Add WindowArranger a layout modifier to move and resize windows in any layout Sat Jan 19 14:44:36 CET 2008 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * WindowArranger: some bug fixes and more code cleanup Tue Jan 22 12:11:35 CET 2008 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * Add Layout.ResizeScreen, a layout transformer to have a layout respect a given screen geometry Tue Jan 22 12:13:19 CET 2008 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * LayoutModifier: add pureMess and pureModifier to the LayoutModifier class Thu Jan 24 02:56:05 CET 2008 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * LayoutModifier: add emptyLayoutMod for dealing with empty workspaces Thu Jan 24 14:46:38 CET 2008 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * XUtils: add functions for operating on lists of windows and export fi Thu Jan 24 14:47:25 CET 2008 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * ShowWName: moved fi to XUtils Thu Jan 24 17:51:12 CET 2008 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * ResizeScreen: add an empy description Thu Jan 24 18:00:00 CET 2008 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * WindowArranger is now a pure layout modifier Thu Jan 24 18:16:49 CET 2008 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * Add Decoration, a layout modifier and a class for easily adding decorations to layouts

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darcs patch: Add WindowArranger a layout modifier to ... (and 1 more)
by Andrea Rossato 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

Hi, this is an improved version of windowArranger, which fixes some issues and cleans the code. The idea I'm working now is a layout modifier to draw decorations around windows. Hope to come up with something soon. I think that this stuff should be waiting for the new release to come out. Cheers, Andrea Fri Jan 18 20:01:45 CET 2008 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * Add WindowArranger a layout modifier to move and resize windows in any layout Sat Jan 19 14:44:36 CET 2008 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * WindowArranger: some bug fixes and more code cleanup

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darcs patch: Add Layout.Diagonal the start of a floating layout
by Andrea Rossato 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

Hi, this is the floatinglayout I was talking about in my previous message. This is not complete: it will place the windows on the screen diagonal, and it will assign a new position to the any new window (and not to the old ones). This is just a proof of concept, if you want, to show you the possibility of using a layout modifier (WindowArranger)as a UI for moving/resizing windows. Maybe this could be considered an evidence of the lack of need of a floating layer? I'm not sure. I had some spare time, and I was willing to play with the type system, nothing more...;) andrea Fri Jan 18 20:18:34 CET 2008 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * Add Layout.Diagonal the start of a floating layout

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darcs patch: Add WindowArranger a layout modifier to move and resiz...
by Andrea Rossato 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

Hi, this is a follow up of my yesterday patch about a new floating layout. This is a complete rewrite (so please forget the previous patch), with a more general approach. Basically a layout modifier that will allow you to move and resize windows in any layout (that returns a complete list of windows). As long as you do not modify the window geometry, the window is managed by the underlying layout, but when you start moving/resizing it, its geometry will not be influenced by the underlying layout anymore. The layout modifier can be turned off and on. In a separate message I'm going to send a Diagonal layout, that will place (overlapping) windows on the screen diagonal, while respecting their original size: a floating layout, a would say, that can be used with the windowArraner modifier. While the layout is just a start, I believe this layout modifier (WindowArranger) could be considered for inclusion in xmonad-0.6. Any comment is highly appreciated. Cheers, Andrea Fri Jan 18 20:01:45 CET 2008 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * Add WindowArranger a layout modifier to move and resize windows in any layout

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Issue 19 in xmonad: Investigate a way to allow contrib extensions to use compositing.
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Issue 19: Investigate a way to allow contrib extensions to use compositing. http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=19 Comment #8 by jeremyoned: Another possibility: * window shuffling on layout change (rather than the current instantaneous switch). -- 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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darcs patch: Make xmonad recompile xmonad.hs on restarting if neces...
by Maximilian Marx 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Wed Jan 23 17:19:05 CET 2008 Maximilian Marx <mmarx(a)wh2.tu-dresden.de> * Make xmonad recompile xmonad.hs on restarting if necessary.

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Switching workspaces with arrow keys
by Matt Fowles 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

All~ How can I make ctrl + alt + (left | right) move the active workspace right or left? I tried looking through posted examples of custom config files, but was not able to understand them well enough to be sure they would do what I want. Thanks, Matt

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