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New module for xmonad-contrib: SpawnNamedPipe
by Christian Wills 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Hello Xmonad devs, Attached is a simple module that allows you to spawn a pipe and store it in the xmonad state as a String, Handle pair so that it can be accessed from a different hook from where the pipe was initially created. The initial motivation for this was I wanted to be able to spawn dzen from inside the startupHook and write to the pipe from inside the logHook. I didn't like being forced to start the dzen pipe up in a global namespace so that I could access it from the logHook. This example is detailed in the Haddocks but there are many other use cases. Cheers, Chris Wills

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Xmonad + KDE4: a possible bug?
by scolfield 15 Feb '14

15 Feb '14

Hi, I've recently installed the newest KDE4 version on my Gentoo and I configured Xmonad according to http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_KDE. There is an strange behaviour. Actually, the xmonad doens't run when KDE starts and any error is reported. KDE starts normally but the window tilling feature of Xmonad doesn't. My .xinitrc contains a single line with "exec startkde" command. And, my /etc/conf.d/xdm file contains "DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm". Moreover, i created and edited set_window_manager.sh file with "export KDEWM=/usr/bin" in ~/.kde4/env directory. I checked and the xmonad is, in fact, in /usr/bindirectory. I also mention that, I've alread installed following the same tutorial from the link above on my old computer once. And that time, everything went well. No issues. I've been wondering if I'm missing some configuration. Could you please tell me what's happening? Best regards, Scolfield .

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XMonad inside Virtualbox inside XMonad
by Jacek Generowicz 15 Feb '14

15 Feb '14

Hi, Somehow XMonad and Virtualbox beetween them conspire to prevent the key I use as my XMonad modifier to be passed on to the guest OS (even when Virtualbox' key capture prevents the host's XMonad from seeing it). I have checked this by running xev in both host and guest and comparing what they see: all other modifier keys I can think of, get through to the guest except for the XMonad modifier. Obviously this makes it impossible to use XMonad sensibly in the guest. Any ideas about how to get around this problem? Thanks.

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CopyWindow to pyhsical screens
by Kasza Péter 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

Is it possible to copy a window to another physical screen? Using CopyWindow the window seems to appear only on the "active" monitor. -- Best Regards, Peter Kasza http://www.iit.uni-miskolc.hu/~kasza1 mr.schyte(a)gmail.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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Getting _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP set
by Erik de Castro Lopo 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

Hi all, I've got 8 desktops setup in xmonad, but for all of then the value of _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP is 0 whereas I (or rather an application I'm using) needs it to be different. I've tried setting: , handleEventHook = ewmhDesktopsEventHook , startupHook = ewmhDesktopsStartup in my defaultConfig, but that doesn't help. Clues? Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/

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2013-02-09 change to XMonad.Prompt.Shell breaks shell completion
by md143rbh7f 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

The following change from 2013-02-09 breaks shell completion for me: hunk ./XMonad/Prompt/Shell.hs 65 + commandToComplete _ c = c It seems to be passing the entire string into compgen in order to get the file completions, but it should only pass the last word. I propose reverting this change. Comments are appreciated. (CCing c.lopez(a)kmels.net, who originally wrote the patch.)

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adding more to topicSpaces..
by Joe M 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

Hello, Just wanted to check if you have any thoughts on this, please? https://github.com/joe9/xmonad-task/blob/master/XMonad/Actions/Task.hs and, the configuration to use it is at: https://github.com/joe9/xmonad-task/tree/master/XMonad/Config This package provides: 1. custom workspaceid display functionality in xmobar and gridSelect. 2. ability to add workspaces at runtime using the servermode. Thanks Joe

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Bad link on download page
by Thomas Løcke 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

Hey all, On the download page at xmonad.org, the link to FreeBSD is wrong. The correct one is this: https://www.freshports.org/x11-wm/hs-xmonad/ :o) Thomas

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patch to change read to Safe.readNote in XMonad-Layout-IndependentScreens
by Joe M 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

Hello, I am attaching a patch changing read to Safe.readNote to provide a better error message in XMonad-Layout-IndependentScreens. It requires adding the Safe dependency to xmonad-contrib. Thanks Joe

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Workspace Switching Woes
by Sacha Sokoloski 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

Hello, I've got a fairly specific issue which I've seen for example here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13498979/remove-border-from-fullscreen-… but I haven't found any solutions. Essentially, I'm using the compton compositor to, amongst other things, fade in and out of windows. I also use smartBorders and smartSpacing to hide the spacing and the borders on singleton windows. The problem is that If I begin from a singleton window, then when I switch workspaces, these 'smart' modifiers no longer detect the singleton window as a singleton, and so redraw the border and spacing before the window has faded. Thus, at the beginning of the fade, the singleton window jumps a few pixes as the border and spacing are applied. This may sound very particular, but it's actually fairly jarring to see, and I'm not able to use smartBorders and smartSpacing in combination with this. Has anyone perhaps solved this problem or could point in the direction of a solution? Thanks for any help, - Sacha Sokoloski

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