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xinerama and statusbar
by lobzang＠free.fr 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Hi I'm using a custom statusbar with dzen, in a xinerama environment ( defaultGaps = [(15,0,0,0)] in config file) This starts well, however when I open a new window (term) on the second screen, the statusbar is overlapped by the terminal window. Anyone experienced this ? Lobzang ___________________ http://lobzang.free.fr

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darcs patch: add LayoutChoice module.
by David Roundy 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Hi all, This function actually could go into xmonad proper, but I'd rather not write that patch until there's a consensus that it's a good idea. This is just a layout that allows you to select between several layouts. Naturally, it's designed to be the "only" layout, so that it handles all layout switching. Besides the ordinary forward and backward rotation of layouts, it allows you to jump directly to named layouts. More features could be added. An obvious one would be to dynamically add and remove layouts from particular workspaces (e.g. I may never want my iceweasel workspace to be anything but full and tabbed). If this is moved into mainline xmonad, it would mean that we could eliminate the ugly (Layout Window, [Layout Window]) in favor of a simple (Layout Window). Incidentally, what drove me to write this was not a cleanup (which would be a good reason), but wanting to have layout modifiers apply to all layouts with a single state shared. My workspaceDir state was getting messed up every time I changed layouts (which is pretty often now that I use VNC with different size screens). Anyhow, thoughts or recommendations are welcome. David Thu Sep 6 11:49:55 EDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * add LayoutChoice module.

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Re: [Xmonad] Non-English letters in XPrompt?
by Andrea Rossato 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:51:29AM -0400, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: > I've the least idea how it works. I really appreciate your > effort on it. I've just sent some patches to the list (starting another thread). Could you please give it a try and tell me if it works for you? Thanks Andrea

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Kicker and DeManage
by Dave Harrison 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Hey all, I just can't figure out how you're meant to make this work, I have DeManage working, and I can start Kicker (for example), and then use alt-d to demanage it. But I can't find a way to make it get down where it belongs at the bottom of the screen where it's out of the way. Can anyone give me some advice on this ? Cheers Dave

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Switching away from and back to a tabbed workspace
by Dave Harrison 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Hey all, Not sure if I'm the only one seeing this or not, but what I'm seeing when I have a tabbed workspace, is that if I have >1 tab in the workspace and I switch to another workspace that requires my current workspace be hidden (so not resulting in a swap of two visual workspaces), and then switch back to it, the visual presentation of the tabs is some strange munge of the tab I had selected, and the tab that had been viewing before I chose the currently selected one. This behaviour doesn't seem to show up in the other default layouts that I use such as tiled or full. I'm using the following src checkouts, xmonad David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net>**20070820150225] XMonadContrib Spencer Janssen <sjanssen(a)cse.unl.edu>**20070820232834] X11-extras Alec Berryman <alec(a)thened.net>**20070818010619] Cheers Dave

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Re: [Xmonad] Non-English letters in XPrompt?
by Andrea Rossato 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:51:29AM -0400, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: > I'm using `en_US.UTF-8'. And it's a utf8 font. Ok, I'm getting there. Almost ready to send a few patches. I think that the only viable approach is the one suggested by Mats: the use of locale technology. This requires importing with the FFI: 1. setlocale() 2. X(mb/wc)DrawImageString 3. X(mb/wc)TextEscapement then a few functions included in Mats patches: 1. XwcDrawString and XwcTextExtents 2. XCreateFontSet, XFreeFontSet, and the FontSet structure. I need to have some directions from Dons and Spencer here, since this requires some additions to X11-extras. But still there's that setlocaole stuff. If I included it in XPrompt, XPrompt.hs becomes XPrompt.hsc and must be inclued in xmonad.cabal for ghc to process it with hsc2hs. I don't know... I still have some problems in dealing properly with directory/file names when they contain non ascii characters, though. I can display them correctly but they are seen, on the Haskell side, as multiple single byte characters, so "length" returns wrong numbers. Andrea

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How to combine xmonad with Ubuntu?
by Kai Grossjohann 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

Are any Ubuntu users here? I just got a new box with Ubuntu on it, and I wonder how to best combine xmonad with Ubuntu. Ubuntu seems to have a lot of useful functionality built into the graphical environment, such as checking for updates, checking for the network one is in, and perhaps other things. I guess if I go my old route of replacing all of Gnome with my custom ~/.xinitrc script, then I'll lose that stuff. Suggestions? Kai

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keybinding not working after update to xorg-7.3
by alexandre 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

Dear Xmonaders :] Two of my keybindings stoped working when i updated xorg to version 7.3, while other keybindings (also using modMask) still work properly. This might not be a Xmonad problem but someone might be abble to help me solve this ? It looks like the key combo is not grabed anymore (see xev captures below). Any help/pointer would be much appreciated. Regards, Alexandre I'm using a swiss-french keyboard. Here's the output of a "setxkbmap -print" : xkb_keymap { xkb_keycodes { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" }; xkb_types { include "complete" }; xkb_compat { include "complete" }; xkb_symbols { include "pc+ch(fr)" }; xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" }; }; I am using Xmonad (0.3 darcs version) along with RotView, and the buggy keybinding is defined in Config.hs like this : --- import XMonadContrib.RotView ... modMask :: KeyMask modMask = mod4Mask ... , ((modMask, xK_agrave), rotView False) , ((modMask, xK_dollar), rotView True) ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ And here is a keybinding with which i have no problem even after xorg update : --- ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_Return), spawn "urxvt -tr") ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here is a 'xev' capture with previous xorg version, where the keybinding was working (press 'Win' key and hold, press and release 'agrave' or 'dollar', release 'Win' key) : --- KeyPress event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xe00001, root 0x79, subw 0x0, time 3980496244, (116,531), root:(838,551), state 0x0, keycode 115 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False FocusOut event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xe00001, mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor FocusIn event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xe00001, mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor KeymapNotify event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x0, keys: 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 FocusOut event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xe00001, mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor FocusIn event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xe00001, mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor KeymapNotify event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x0, keys: 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KeyRelease event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xe00001, root 0x79, subw 0x0, time 3980499843, (116,531), root:(838,551), state 0x40, keycode 115 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False ------------------------------------------------------------------------ And a second capture with xorg 7.3, where the keybinding does not work anymore (same key sequence) : --- KeyPress event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xc00001, root 0x7a, subw 0x0, time 3061096, (670,422), root:(672,442), state 0x0, keycode 115 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyPress event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xc00001, root 0x7a, subw 0x0, time 3064159, (670,422), root:(672,442), state 0x40, keycode 51 (keysym 0x24, dollar), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (24) "$" XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (24) "$" XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xc00001, root 0x7a, subw 0x0, time 3064247, (670,422), root:(672,442), state 0x40, keycode 51 (keysym 0x24, dollar), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (24) "$" XFilterEvent returns: False KeyPress event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xc00001, root 0x7a, subw 0x0, time 3072308, (670,422), root:(672,442), state 0x40, keycode 48 (keysym 0xe0, agrave), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c3 a0) "à" XmbLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c3 a0) "à" XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xc00001, root 0x7a, subw 0x0, time 3072380, (670,422), root:(672,442), state 0x40, keycode 48 (keysym 0xe0, agrave), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c3 a0) "à" XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xc00001, root 0x7a, subw 0x0, time 3074171, (670,422), root:(672,442), state 0x40, keycode 115 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Non-English letters in XPrompt?
by Xiao-Yong Jin 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

Hi list, I couldn't make the XPrompt work with Chinese characters. I used the same font that works with dzen. But when I want it to auto-complete paths with Chinese characters, it completes correctly, yet incorrectly showing the characters. I simply used > shellPrompt defaultXPConfig { font = "font works fine with dzen" } What else should I do to make the font showing the correct characters? - Xiao-Yong -- c/* __o/* <\ * (__ */\ <

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darcs patch: Define a read-state-only monad for Layouts.
by David Roundy 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

Hi all, Here's a proposed change for the Layout API. I'm not yet sending updates for XMonadContrib, since I'd rather first hear what folks think. The idea is to disallow changes to the XState in Layout hooks, so we won't run into trouble with the state changing while we're in the process of updating said state. Basically, as far as I can tell, this is needed in order for the current Layouts API to be safe. A catch is that some existing Layout code will break. I would say that that code is fragile and really wants a generic hooks API. As far as I know, the modules that I maintain will work with this change. Any Layout that just lays out windows and does IO stuff will still work (e.g. even weird ones like WorkspaceDir won't be broken). But, for example, Andreas' focus-follows-mouse Layout will break, since it relies on modifying the XState (to change focus) within the Layout (which is also why it breaks when combined with other Layouts). I look forward to discussion. In my opinion, we really need a cleaner Layout API. (See also my previous email on moving Layouts into the StackSet, which I still think would be a good idea...) David Wed Sep 5 15:21:15 EDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * Define a read-state-only monad for Layouts.

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