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xmonad localisation
by Mats Jansborg 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

Hello list, I have some small patches as well as some questions regarding localisation of xmonad, I'm sorry if this runs a little long. Attached is a patch to rewrite David Roundy's NamedWindow using getTextProperty and wcTextPropertyToTextList, which makes it aware of the user's locale. I couldn't find these functions in the existing X11 bindings or in X11-extra so I have attached a second patch for X11-extras that adds them as well as the the TextProperty structure. To make these patches do anything useful, xmonad also needs to call setlocale at some point. It is natural to do this first thing in main, and it is trivial to add except I don't think setlocale or the category constants are in the standard libraries, so the ffi and hsc2hs or similar is needed. In fact, applying these patches without calling setlocale will stop some titles that are now fetched correctly from working, namely those that are in ISO-8859-1 but not ASCII, in effect setting the locale to C, so don't do that. Note also that the patch assumes wchar_t = Data.Char, i.e. that withCWString works correctly. This is often true (always in glibc, I think) but not by any means guaranteed. Another choice would be to use XmbTextPropertyToTextList and keep the title as an opaque byte array. This is nice as long as you don't need to interpret it as a string at which point you need something like iconv. In addition to this, everything that displays text needs to be changed to be locale-aware. This applies to xmonad itself when it prints log messages to stderr without encoding them, but maybe this isn't such a pressing issue to address as it is intended for debugging. More important are extensions that draw text, window titles in particular. I think these should be changed to use X(mb/wc)DrawString, xft, pango or some other locale-aware method. I have some patches that modify David Roundy's Decoration and Tabbed modules to use a small xft binding I made, here's a screen shot: http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/~jansborg/screenshot.png I have used these for a couple of days now and they seem to work, but I don't propose to apply them for several reasons: * they break anything using Decoration * they introduce a dependency on xft which clearly shouldn't be a hard requirement for building xmonad * some people don't like anti-aliasing, I tend to agree at small resolutions/font sizes If there's interest I can post them anyway for people to play with. How is the the organisation of xmonad supposed to account for extensions such as these that need to be linked with additional libraries? It seems any such extensions must patch not only XMonadContrib but also core xmonad to account for the build process, or is there some way around this? /Mats Jansborg

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darcs patch: use XPrompt in WorkspaceDir.
by David Roundy 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

Hi all, Here's an amend-recorded version that allows configuration of the prompt (I found I couldn't handle the small font...). David Tue Aug 14 12:11:03 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * use XPrompt in WorkspaceDir.

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darcs patch: new module DynamicWorkspaces to add and ... (and 2 more)
by David Roundy 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

Mon Aug 13 18:15:01 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * new module DynamicWorkspaces to add and remove workspaces. Mon Aug 13 18:45:48 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * make DynamicWorkspace more thorough. Note: there's still a bug due to our failure to inform the old layouts to clean up. Tue Aug 14 11:35:42 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * clean up DynamicWorkspaces to handle layouts properly.

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darcs patch: fix Commands to work with new workspaces.
by David Roundy 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

This makes MetaModules work with the new type for workspaces. Mon Aug 13 17:41:46 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * fix Commands to work with new workspaces.

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darcs patch: change workspaces to [WorkspaceId]
by David Roundy 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

This simplifies several lines of code (although it doesn't eliminate any lines of code). It eliminates the assumption that the workspace IDs are contiguous, starting at zero, although it doesn't change this property. I hope this change goes in, as it improves the code, and may also lead the way towards friendlier interaction with a changing number of workspaces. David Mon Aug 13 17:37:22 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * change workspaces to [WorkspaceId]

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darcs patch: make FlexibleResize use new mouseDrag properly.
by David Roundy 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

Tue Aug 7 13:20:16 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * make FlexibleResize use new mouseDrag properly.

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darcs patch: move event loop out of mouseDrag.
by David Roundy 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

Hi all, Here's my patch to do dragging in the X monad. (It's here a couple of weeks early because my wife brought the laptop into my office today to check email.) It's pretty simple. I don't yet have a decent use for it, but a patch to XMonadContrib which fixes things to compile with this change will follow. David Tue Aug 7 13:16:16 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * move event loop out of mouseDrag.

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darcs patch: only display any given window once.
by David Roundy 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

Hi all, This change is independent of the change to delete. Together they make sticky windows (via the CopyWindow contrib module) work nicely with Xinerama. Without this change, a gap will be visible on one or more screens when a sticky window is present in workspaces present on multiple screens, which is not the end of the world, but is a bit ugly. With this change, each window is displayed on only one screen. Note that this is just an amend-recorded version of my earlier patch, fixed to work with the modified API. David Tue Jul 24 07:13:10 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * only display any given window once. This change goes along with the sticky window work. It makes xmonad display each window once and only once, with preference given to the focussed screen. It has no effect when there are no duplicate windows, except to make things less efficient. We could do better using Data.Set (or Data.Map) to store the set of windows that are visible.

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darcs patch: use XPrompt in WorkspaceDir.
by David Roundy 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

This is still rather crude: we ought to be able to specify a XPrompt configuration, for instance. David Tue Aug 14 11:58:22 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * use XPrompt in WorkspaceDir.

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darcs patch: new module DynamicWorkspaces to add and remove workspa...
by David Roundy 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

Mon Aug 13 18:15:01 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * new module DynamicWorkspaces to add and remove workspaces.

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