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darcs patch: Tabs should stay beneath any floating window
by Andrea Rossato 08 Jul '07

08 Jul '07

Hi, this fixes the issue reported by Geoffrey about tabs drawn over floating windows. ciaoa andrea Sat Jul 7 08:49:41 CEST 2007 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * Tabs should stay beneath any floating window This fixes the issue reported by Geoffrey Alan Washburn: " Sometimes the tabs will be drawn on top of floating windows." Not anymore!

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Java app doesn't want to display itself in xmonad
by Dave Harrison 08 Jul '07

08 Jul '07

Hey all, I've got a java app I want to use called JabRef for tracking research papers (http://jabref.sourceforge.net/) but whenever I try and run it while using xmonad I just get an empty grey window - it doesn't crash, it just seems to sit there. I tried starting it in KDE, and it started up successfully, so I can rule out a java install problem. Has anyone else had problems with Java apps (or maybe even this one) in xmonad ? Cheers Dave

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Xinerama screen numbering seems to have changed
by Bruce Stephens 08 Jul '07

08 Jul '07

It seems that they're numbered from 1 rather than 0, so everything works OK if I do hunk ./Config.hs 175 - | (key, sc) <- zip [xK_w, xK_e, xK_r] [0..] + | (key, sc) <- zip [xK_w, xK_e, xK_r] [1..] and make the appropriate change to dmenuXinerama. Is that a deliberate change? (I'm indifferent to it; I'm just slightly concerned I might have broken something in my local build.)

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xmobar-0.5 "The Monolitic" just released!
by Andrea Rossato 08 Jul '07

08 Jul '07

Hi, Introducing XMobar, "the Monolitic", a minimalistic text based status bar (and system monitor) for the XMonad Window Manager, featuring dynamic color management and external program execution. Grab it here: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmobar-0.5 The required screen shot (XMobar is at the very bottom): http://gorgias.mine.nu/xmobar/xmobar-0.5.jpg To run this: xmobar xmobar.config-sample xmobar.config-sample comes with the distributed package. Please have a look to the README for more details on how configure XMobar. About this release ------------------ I was talking with Spencer in the #xmonad channel and he suggested to run monitors internally, so to get rid, as much as possible, of System.Process.runInteractiveCommand (btw, in ghc HEAD this function leaks memory, as does runInteractiveProcess in 6.6.1 - but this last one keeps on leaking in HEAD too...things are getting better, in terms of symmetry, at leas;-). Spencer also suggested a data type. That was a nice suggestion too, since I was eager to declare at least one class in XMobar. So, eventually I was able to internally run monitors with class and, hopefully, less resource consumption. This also means that monitors are not just examples any more, but real stuff: I tried at least to improve the most stupid one, the weather monitor, that now should at least report some error if something goes wrong. I wrote something about configuring XMobar in the README: that should be a complete reference. I'm far from saying it is readable, but there it is. At least I wrote it. This new way of running monitors requires some more code clean up, getting rid of some stupid duplicates. That will be done with the next release. Please report back if you think this is an improvement over previous releases. Hope you'll enjoy. Comments, suggestions, critiques, top output/comparison with dzen2, or other C/C++ stuff are always welcome. ;-) All the best, Andrea

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darcs patch: Tabbed: updated usage information
by Andrea Rossato 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

Updates usage information for the Tabbed layout (to be applied if the new configuration patch is accepted). ciao andrea Sat Jul 7 08:51:23 CEST 2007 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * Tabbed: updated usage information

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darcs patch: NamedWindows: if fetchName returns Nothi... (and 1 more)
by Andrea Rossato 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

I'm sending the last two patches again (so forget the previous ones) since their descriptions were so full of typos... Thanks, Andrea Fri Jul 6 15:06:44 CEST 2007 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * NamedWindows: if fetchName returns Nothing sets the name to resName ClassHint fetchName may return a Nothing if the window's name contains multi byte characters. In such a case the resName string of the ClassHints of that window will be used instead. Fri Jul 6 15:08:45 CEST 2007 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * Tabbed: added more configuration options It is now possible to configure active and inactive border colors, and active and inactive text colors (i.e. tabs are now very similar to Ion3 tabs: former Ion users may appreciate).

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darcs patch: NamedWindows: if fetchName return Nothing set the nema...
by Andrea Rossato 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

This is a work around for the Unicode problem affecting the Tabbed layout. This is a work around. For a proper solution see here: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ch-examples.en.html#s13.1.8 Ciao Andrea Fri Jul 6 13:46:41 CEST 2007 Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato(a)unibz.it> * NamedWindows: if fetchName return Nothing set the nema to resName ClassHint fetchName may return a Nothing if the window's name contains multi byte characters. In such a case the resName string of the ClassHints of that window will be used to set name.

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xmobar-0.4 - the xmonad status bar - released!
by Andrea Rossato 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

hi! I've just released xmobar-0.4, my XMonad status bar: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmobar-0.4 XMobar is a minimalistic text only status bar. What's new: - many performance improvements on the monitors side; - added a (sort of) library for writing monitors; - every monitor takes a set of command-line options to set: * high and low thresholds, * high, normal and low colors * output template. Try for instance xmb-weather --help Example: [15:47:29]$ xmb-weather -t "<station> <tempF>, <rh>, (<hour>)" EGPF Glasgow Airport <fc=#FF0000>62.6</fc>, <fc=#FF0000>72.0</fc>, (13:20) For me xmobar is a good-enough replacement of the Ion3 status bar. I hope you'll enjoy it. Any suggestion, comments, critics are welcome. Know bugs: center alignment does produce weird (but nice) results. All the best, Andrea

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Reporting XMonadContrib bugs
by Geoffrey Alan Washburn 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

I didn't see anything about this on the mailing list, but should bugs for XMonadContrib be filed on http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/list as well?

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Notes on xmonad
by Simon Peyton-Jones 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Here are some note I jotted down as I was working on the xmonad code. * allocaXEvent/nextEvent/getEvent sequence is too ugly to appear in Main! You can hide the EventPtr structure in the XMonad, and allocate it in runX. * When you resize the xnest window, the new size isn't reported to xmonad. Instead, the xmonad window is truncated. Turns out to be xnest's fault. * Ugly Stack vs StackOrNot. This should be hidden inside StackSet. The only place it's used is in runLayout. Likewise there should be only one exported integrate, not integrate and integrate' * 'modify' is defined in Control.Monad.State and in StackSet -- very confusing. Furthermore, although modify, modify' are exported from StackSet, they are never used (and probably should not be exported, so as to preserve the abstaction). * In StackSet.findIndex, use integrate rather than reimplementing it * In StackSet.new, the Nothing should be emptyStack, with a suitable defn for emptyStack * In Operations, line 171, Stack should be abstract! use 'focus' to extract the focus. Ditto line 372 * StackSet.focus is not the same as Operations.focus. Unhelpful! * I respecfully suggest that this code (Operations.hs) is impenetrable tiled = (W.stack . W.workspace . W.current $ this) >>= W.filter (not . flip M.member (W.floating ws)) * In the call to restackWindows in Operations.hs, why bring the focused window to the front of the list? Needs a comment at least.

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