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scratchpads broken after upgrade.
by Eric.a 22 Oct '22

22 Oct '22

I am on Arch Linux, so there's that. I had avoided upgrading for a couple of months. Until yesterday morning. I'm on ghc 9.02 and xmonad 17.1. I had to wade through numerous problems and errors, Arch as well as xmonad deprecations. Nothing to do with scratchpads. I am passing my scratchpads to all scratchpad Actions, I have a scratchToggle function to do that, which according to the doc, should continue to work even with the breaking changes to namedScratchpads. I do have multiple ways to invoke them. I have a submap keymap, grid select, and few direct keys in the main keymap. None of them work. None of the named scratchpads work, nor does the old unnamed scratchpad terminal. I've ripped out my code and replaced it with the example with no success. I've tested examples with xterm, uxrvt and termite. I am now mostly back to my original scratchpad code. Which silently does nothing, Named or otherwise. I must be missing something very simple. Any clues would be appreciated, my haskell is a bit rusty but coming back a little at a time. Here's my relevant code chunks. Also available on my github. Itś a rather large config. https://github.com/EricGebhart/xmonad-setup/blob/master/.xmonad/xmonad.hs I suspect my manage hooks, but it just doesn´t make sense to me. Everything is a bit simpler with the new docks and ewmh stuff, I realize I could simplify it some more. But I hate to mess with it too much, when it all looks good and it's been this way for years now. Any help is much appreciated. Thank you, Eric ```haskell ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Scratch Pads ------------------------------------------------------------ -- location and dimension. scratchpadSize = W.RationalRect (1/4) (1/4) (1/3) (3/7) mySPFloat = customFloating scratchpadSize -- with a flexible location. -- Big BSP, Small SSP, Super small, -- so size is width and height. - change the fractions to get your sizes right. flexScratchpadSize dx dy = W.RationalRect (dx) (dy) (1/2) (5/7) flexSScratchpadSize dx dy = W.RationalRect (dx) (dy) (3/5) (5/8) flexSSScratchpadSize dx dy = W.RationalRect (dx) (dy) (1/2) (1/2) -- pass in a fraction to determine your x,y location. size is derived from that -- all based on screen size. flexFloatSSP dx dy = customFloating (flexSScratchpadSize dx dy) flexFloatSSSP dx dy = customFloating (flexSSScratchpadSize dx dy) flexFloatBSP dx dy = customFloating (flexScratchpadSize dx dy) scratchpads = [ NS "conky" spawnConky findConky manageConky , NS "htop" "xterm -e htop" (title =? "htop") defaultFloating -- from the example in the doc , NS "pavuControl" spawnPavu findPavu managePavu , NS "term" (myTerminal2 ++ " -t term") (title =? "term") (flexFloatBSP (1/20) (1/20)) , NS "term1" (myTerminal2 ++ " -t term1") (title =? "term1") (flexFloatBSP (2/20) (2/20)) , NS "term2" (myTerminal2 ++ " -t term2") (title =? "term2") (flexFloatBSP (3/20) (3/20)) , NS "term3" (myTerminal2 ++ " -t term3") (title =? "term3") (flexFloatBSP (4/20) (4/20)) , NS "term4" (myTerminal2 ++ " -t term4") (title =? "term4") (flexFloatBSP (6/20) (4/20)) , NS "ghci" (myTerminal2 ++ " -e ghci") (title =? "ghci") (flexFloatBSP (6/20) (1/10)) --, NS "sync" (myTerminal ++ " -e sy") (title =? "sy") (flexFloatSP (1/10) (2/3)) , NS "top" (myTerminal2 ++ " -e htop") (title =? "htop") (flexFloatSSP (1/4) (1/4)) , NS "calc" (myTerminal2 ++ " -e bcl -t bc") (title =? "bc") (flexFloatSSSP (1/4) (1/4)) , NS "alsaMixer" (myTerminal2 ++ " -e alsamixer -t alsamixer") (title =? "alsamixer") (flexFloatSSSP (1/4) (1/4)) ] where spawnConky = "conky -c ~/.config/conky/Erics.conkyrc" -- launch Conky findConky = title =? "system_conky" -- its window, has a own_window_title of "system_conky" manageConky = (flexFloatSSP (1/4) (1/4)) spawnPavu = "pavucontrol" findPavu = title =? "pavucontrol" managePavu = (flexFloatSSP (1/4) (1/4)) -- Scratchpad invocation / Dismissal -- Warp bringMouse = warpToWindow (9/10) (9/10) scratchToggle a = namedScratchpadAction scratchpads a >> bringMouse manageScratchPad :: ManageHook manageScratchPad = scratchpadManageHook (W.RationalRect l t w h) where h = 0.6 w = 0.5 t = 1 - h l = 1 - w myScratchpadManageHook = manageScratchPad <+> namedScratchpadManageHook scratchpads myManageHelpers = composeAll . concat $ [ [ className =? c --> doFloat | c <- classFloats] , [ title =? t --> doFloat | t <- titleFloats] , [ resource =? r --> doFloat | r <- resourceFloats] , [ title =? c --> doIgnore | c <- titleIgnores] , [(className =? "Firefox" <&&> resource =? "Dialog") --> doFloat] ] where classFloats = ["Galculator", "Steam", "Media_Center_30", "YACReaderLibrary", "MPlayer", "Gimp", "Gajim.py", "Xmessage"] titleFloats = ["Volume Control", "alsamixer", "Onboard"] resourceFloats = ["desktop_window", "Dialog", "gpicview"] titleIgnores = ["stalonetray", "xfce4-notifyd"] myManageHook = myManageHelpers <+> myScratchpadManageHook --- keymaps ... -- Scratchpads , ("M4-e", toSubmap c "namedScratchpadsKeymap" namedScratchpadsKeymap) -- Scratchpad , ("M4-n", scratchpadSpawnActionTerminal "urxvt") -- Urxvt Scratchpad , ("M4-S-n", namedScratchpadAction scratchpads "term1") -- Term1 Scratchpad , ("M4-S-e", namedScratchpadAction scratchpads "htop") -- htop example Scratchpad -- manage hooks / def myConfig = do dbus <- D.connectSession getWellKnownName dbus return $ defaults { logHook = do -- dynamicLogWithPP $ (prettyPrinter dbus) dynamicLogWithPP $ (myPPPolybar dbus) fadeinactive , manageHook = myManageHook , layoutHook = layoutHook defaults , startupHook = do myStartupHook -- >> setWMName "LG3D" } -- docks :: XConfig myConfig -> XConfig myConfig ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Combine it all together -- A structure containing your confiuration settings, overriding -- fields in the default config. Any you don't override, will -- use the defaults defined in xmonad/XMonad/Config.hs -- -- No need to modify this. -- -- defaultConfig defaults = def { -- simple stuff terminal = myTerminal, focusFollowsMouse = myFocusFollowsMouse, borderWidth = myBorderWidth, modMask = myModMask, workspaces = myTopicNames, -- MyWorkspaces normalBorderColor = myNormalBorderColor, focusedBorderColor = myFocusedBorderColor, -- key bindings keys = mainKeymap, mouseBindings = myMouseBindings, -- hooks, layouts layoutHook = myLayout, -- smartBorders $ myLayout, manageHook = myManageHook, startupHook = myStartupHook } -- `additionalKeysP` myadditionalKeys main :: IO () main = xmonad . ewmh . docks =<< myConfig ```

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workspaces conditional on host name
by Ramon Diaz-Uriarte 21 Sep '22

21 Sep '22

Dear All, I use XMonad on different machines. The configuration is identical, except for the default workspaces, so I'd like to have the config file set the default workspaces automagically. Haskell ignorant here, but googling around I think I am almost there. These are, I think, the relevant pieces myWorkspaces = map show[1..7] myWorkspacesPhelsuma = map show[1..3] ++ ["top", "sync", "zot", "whats"] myWorkspacesTriturus = map show[1..2] ++ ["top", "sync"] main :: IO () main = do hostname <- io (getEnv "HOSTNAME") let myWorkspaces = case hostname of "Phelsuma" -> myWorkspacesPhelsuma "Triturus" -> myWorkspacesTriturus _ -> myWorkspaces xmonad $ ewmh $ dynamicProjects myProjects $ withNavigation2DConfig def $ docks $ withEasySB (statusBarProp "xmobar ~/.xmonad/.xmobarrc" (pure myXmobarPP)) defToggleStrutsKey $ myConfig myConfig = def { --- blablabla workspaces = myWorkspaces } However, I keep getting an error: • Couldn't match expected type ‘Maybe String’ with actual type ‘[Char]’ • In the pattern: "Phelsuma" In a case alternative: "Phelsuma" -> myWorkspacesPhelsuma In the expression: case hostname of "Phelsuma" -> myWorkspacesPhelsuma "Triturus" -> myWorkspacesTriturus _ -> myWorkspaces | 882 | "Phelsuma" -> myWorkspacesPhelsuma | ^^^^^^^^^^ (and the same error for the second entry, "Triturus") This I think should be fairly easy to fix, but I can't find how. I tried writing the case section as let myWorkspaces = case hostname of Just "Phelsuma" -> myWorkspacesPhelsuma Just "Triturus" -> myWorkspacesTriturus _ -> myWorkspaces and that does not give me an error, but it seems to ignore the actual hostname and uses the "default" one (the one with workspaces 1 to 7). So I think I am using "Just" incorrectly and possibly also misunderstanding how "let" works in main. Any suggestions? Thanks, -- Ramon Diaz-Uriarte Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-31 Facultad de Medicina Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Arzobispo Morcillo, 4 28029 Madrid Spain Phone: +34-91-497-2412 Email: rdiaz02(a)gmail.com r.diaz(a)uam.es https://ligarto.org/rdiaz

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xmonad and xmonad-contrib 0.17.1 are available
by Tony Zorman 03 Sep '22

03 Sep '22

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ XMONAD AND XMONAD-CONTRIB 0.17.1 ARE AVAILABLE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ New versions of xmonad and xmonad-contrib have been released. Check out our [download page] for instructions on where to get them. About 10 months after the big release of 0.17.0, we—as promised—picked up the pace a bit and are back with a new minor version; don't let that fool you though, this one still packs a punch! Plus, we now sport a brand-new [logo], courtesy of [Hans Heintze]. As this is a minor release, we tried to keep the breaking changes to a minimum (xmonad core does not have a single one!) However, some were unavoidable for `xmonad-contrib', so be sure to at least glance at the [release notes]! For help getting started—or more info—see [our website] and [talk to us]! If you like what we do, you can support us on [Open Collective] or via [GitHub Sponsors]. Thanks! [GitHub Sponsors] <https://github.com/sponsors/xmonad> [Hans Heintze] <https://github.com/literallyunplayable> [Open Collective] <https://opencollective.com/xmonad> [download page] <https://xmonad.org/download.html> [logo] <https://xmonad.org/images/logo.svg> [our website] <https://xmonad.org/> [release notes] See section 2 [talk to us] <https://xmonad.org/community.html> 1 xmonad 0.17.1 ═══════════════ This release includes 32 non-merge commits by 6 contributors! For a full summary of all the changes, see [xmonad's CHANGES.md] file. [xmonad's CHANGES.md] <https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/blob/v0.17.1/CHANGES.md> 1.1 Enhancements ──────────────── • Added custom cursor shapes for resizing and moving windows. 1.2 Bug Fixes ───────────── • Change the main loop to try to avoid [GHC bug 21708] on systems running GHC 9.2 up to version 9.2.3. The issue has been fixed in [GHC 9.2.4] and all later releases. • Fixed border color of windows with alpha channel. Now all windows have the same opaque border color. [GHC bug 21708] <https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/21708> [GHC 9.2.4] <https://discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-9-2-4-released/4851> 2 xmonad-contrib 0.17.1 ═══════════════════════ This release includes 212 non-merge commits by 32 contributors! For a full summary of all the changes, see [xmonad-contrib's CHANGES.md] file. [xmonad-contrib's CHANGES.md] <https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/blob/v0.17.1/CHANGES.md> 2.1 Breaking Changes ──────────────────── • `XMonad.Config.{Arossato,Dmwit,Droundy,Monad,Prime,Saegesser,Sjanssen}': deprecated all of these modules. The user-specific configuration modules may still be found [on the website]. • `XMonad.Util.NamedScratchpad': scratchpads are now only based on the argument given to `namedScratchpadManageHook'; all other scratchpad arguments are, while still present, ignored. Users passing all of their scratchpads to functions like `namedScratchpadAction' (as is shown in the module's documentation) should /not/ notice any difference in behaviour. • `XMonad.Util.DynamicScratchpads': deprecated the module; use the new dynamic scratchpad functionality of `XMonad.Util.NamedScratchpad' instead. • `XMonad.Hooks.UrgencyHook': deprecated `urgencyConfig'; use `def' from the new `Default' instance of `UrgencyConfig' instead. [on the website] <https://xmonad.org/configurations.html> 2.2 New Modules ─────────────── • `XMonad.Hooks.Modal': a module implementing modal keybindings for XMonad. • `XMonad.Layout.SideBorderDecoration': this module allows for having a configurable border position around windows; i.e., it can move the border to either cardinal direction. • `XMonad.Actions.PerLayoutKeys': a new module for customising keybindings on a per-layout basis. • `XMonad.Actions.RepeatAction': a module for adding a keybinding to repeat the last action, similar to Vim's `.' or Emacs's `dot-mode'. 2.3 Bug Fixes and Minor Changes ─────────────────────────────── • `XMonad.Prompt' and `XMonad.Actions.TreeSelect': added xft-based font fallback support. This may be used by appending other fonts to the given string: `xft:iosevka-11,FontAwesome-9'. Note that this requires `xmonad-contrib' to be compiled with `X11-xft' version 0.3.4 or higher. • `XMonad.Util.Run': added an EDSL—particularly geared towards programs like terminals or Emacs—to spawn processes from XMonad in a compositional way. • `XMonad.Util.Hacks': added `trayerPaddingXmobarEventHook' (plus generic variants for other trays/panels) to communicate trayer resize events to xmobar so that padding space may be reserved on xmobar for the tray. Requires `xmobar' version 0.40 or higher. • `XMonad.Prompt.OrgMode': added the ability to specify alphabetic (`#A', `#B', and `#C') [priorities] at the end of the input note. • `XMonad.Actions.Submap': added `visualSubmap' to visualise the available keys and their actions when inside a submap. • `XMonad.Util.NamedScratchpad': added support for dynamic scratchpads in the form of `dynamicNSPAction' and `toggleDynamicNSP'. • `XMonad.Hooks.WindowSwallowing': fixed windows getting lost when used in conjunction with `smartBorders' and a single window. [priorities] <https://orgmode.org/manual/Priorities.html> -- Tony Zorman | https://tony-zorman.com/

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Workspace selector font size
by Jacek Generowicz 25 Aug '22

25 Aug '22

Hi, [ My xmonad config is *extremely* idiosyncratic, and I haven't touched it for literally years. So I'm struggling to track down the documentation which might be relevant to my problem: I don't remember the XMonad ecosystem terminology, and my configuration looks nothing like the standard ones. All this to say that the way I choose to state my question might sound a bit odd. I hope it makes sense. ] My workspase switching key opens a grey bar at the bottom of the screen. Since switching to 0.17, the fonts on this have become enormous and the virtual screen names (of which I have many) don't fit in the bar any more. Can you give me any pointers on where this font (or the appearance of this bar in general) might be configured?

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DynamicLog.defaultPP and Prompt.defaultXPConfig AWOL on Nix
by Jacek Generowicz 25 Aug '22

25 Aug '22

Hello, I've been a happy XMonad user for years, and it is both one of the most useful and most stable pieces of software in my personal configuration. After an upgrade to my NixOS/home-manager configuration, XMonad fails to recompile with the following error message: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- xmonad --recompile XMonad will use ghc to recompile, because neither "/home/jacg/.xmonad/build" nor "/home/jacg/.xmonad/stack.yaml" exists. XMonad recompiling (forced). Errors detected while compiling xmonad config: /home/jacg/.xmonad/xmonad.hs $ /nix/store/g4bjasmlq3v3dxryd02abpkr4mg7y1d5-ghc-9.0.2-with-packages/bin/ghc --make xmonad.hs -i -ilib -fforce-recomp -main-is main -v0 -outputdir /home/jacg/.xmonad/build-x86_64-linux -o /home/jacg/.xmonad/xmonad-x86_64-linux xmonad.hs:84:34: error: Module ‘XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog’ does not export ‘defaultPP’ | 84 | import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog ( defaultPP | ^^^^^^^^^ xmonad.hs:133:37: error: Module ‘XMonad.Prompt’ does not export ‘defaultXPConfig’ | 133 | import XMonad.Prompt (autoComplete, defaultXPConfig) | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Please check the file for errors. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Its exceptional stability has made me not have to configure or think about XMonad for aeons: it's simply an extension of my fingers. Consequently this error is leaving me completely stumped. Can you give me any hints on how to resolve this problem?

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Errors building Xmonad using Stack
by Eyal Erez 21 Jul '22

21 Jul '22

Hi, After having a hard time getting xmonad installed via my destro, I've followed the "Building using Stack" instructions online ( https://xmonad.org/INSTALL.html) The build seemed to have worked okay. However, when I try to start xmonad with my config file, I get many import errors. I've checked out the tagged versions v0.15 of xmonad and v0.16 of xmonad-contrib. Has the libraries changed at some point or is the compiled version having a hard time finding them? Is the problem in how I'm building xmonad or in my configuration? Errors: https://pastebin.com/auFthRnJ xmonad.hs: https://pastebin.com/AeQjyVVB Thank you -- There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't.

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Question about desktop notifications
by Adam Cooper 11 Jul '22

11 Jul '22

I've recently started running xmonad on Arch Linux, with no desktop environment, and can't seem to figure out how the desktop notifications are being generated. - Here's a link to a snapshot, to show what my notifications currently look like: https://imgur.com/a/dLMbj3w - Running `notify-send 'Hello world!' 'This is an example notification.'` yields the error `GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files`. Can anyone shed some light on this mystery? Thank you, Adam Cooper

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Fwd: Re: xmonad packages broken in Debian
by Michael Topp 10 Jul '22

10 Jul '22

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Re: [xmonad] xmonad packages broken in Debian Datum: Mon, 4 Jul 2022 12:33:38 +0200 Von: Michael Topp <info(a)mito-space.com> An: Eyal Erez <oneself(a)gmail.com> Hi, if you're asking what distro maintains xmonad packages (the best), I count on Arch. They update all official 'xmonad' packages frequently, because their haskell packages themselves also are updated quite often (could be once, twice a week). – Alternatively you can make your own local xmonad build, independent from the distro. And sure, you also have to decide which compiler to use. I highly recommend consulting the wikis from both Arch Linux and Xmonad. HTH Am 03.07.22 um 05:07 schrieb Eyal Erez: > Does anyone know why the xmonad packages seem to be broken in Debian? > > https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/haskell.html > > When I try to install libghc-xmonad-dev > and/or libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev, I get an error: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > libghc-xmonad-dev : Depends: libghc-x11-dev-1.9.1-11a5c > Depends: libghc-base-dev-4.13.0.0-2f220 but it is > not installable > Depends: libghc-containers-dev-0.6.2.1-ab1cf but > it is not installable > Depends: libghc-data-default-dev-0.7.1.1-958e3 > Depends: libghc-directory-dev-1.3.6.0-49fdf but > it is not installable > Depends: > libghc-extensible-exceptions-dev-0.1.1.4-10872 but it is not installable > Depends: libghc-filepath-dev-1.4.2.1-103b6 but it > is not installable > Depends: libghc-mtl-dev-2.2.2-7208c but it is not > installable > Depends: libghc-process-dev-1.6.9.0-88a89 but it > is not installable > Depends: libghc-setlocale-dev-1.0.0.9-a89d6 but > it is not installable > Depends: libghc-unix-dev-2.7.2.2-bb33f but it is > not installable > Depends: libghc-utf8-string-dev-1.0.1.1-866d7 but > it is not installable > Recommends: libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev but it is > not going to be installed > > When I tried to enquire in the distros forums (which is a Debian > variant) they indicated that the problem is upstream. Does anyone know > what the issue is? Which distro to folks use with xmonad? Where is it > best supported? > > > > -- > *Eyal Erez <**oneself(a)gmail.com* <mailto:oneself@gmail.com>*>* > > There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't. > > > _______________________________________________ > xmonad mailing list > xmonad(a)haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmonad

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XMonad broke
by linuxham＠wowway.com 06 Jul '22

06 Jul '22

Arch updated Haskell, but not my xmonad and xmonad - contrib. I recompiled xmonad, got a bunch of errors. I then reinstalled my xmonad-git and xmonad-contrib-git, and then recompiled xmonad and only got one error msg, on ToggleStruts, so I removed that, got zero errors, but no Xmobar, sigh... I will dig into it more, but cabal makes that go smoother?? Thanks Ed

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view workspaces in Xmobar
by linuxham 05 Jul '22

05 Jul '22

Hello, I am new to configuring Xmonad, and am trying to get Xmobar to show workspaces. I am using the Xmonad.hs from here: https://xmonad.org/TUTORIAL.html And my Xmobarrc is attached. I am running Endeavor OS, with xmonad-git-0.17, and xmonad-contrib-git-0.17, and xmobar-get-0.36 When I boot into Xmonad, the Xmobar says "Updating", but doesn't show anything! Thanks Ed PS I read all of April, but didn't catch the fix!

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