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Still having issues and can't seem to get 'workspaces' solved. This is borking my xmobar too.
by Michael Needham 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

Hello All and thanks for the past help and patience with me as I am learning both Haskell and use of Xmonad / Xmobar! I don't get errors when I run xmobar from the terminal, however, it no longer starts on login (xession) from lightdm or startx either. When I run it from terminal it just shows "Updating" where the workspaces should be. But is used to startup with the TWM and I am on one monitor (0) and so there is one xproc statement. Attached is today's version of xmobarrc and xmonad.hs so if someone can help me figure out workspaces that is my problem (apparently). I have been using another persons configs to enhance my own which were very vanilla examples from haskell.org (config archives) and a very standard (common) minimal xmobar config from a search on the web. I have all the fonts I am trying to load loaded and I am running on EndeavourOS (Arch based Linux) but all the Arch wiki advice has worked in the past. Just still wearing noob clothes when it comes to xmonad :) Please see attached files: -- Kind Regards, *John Michael Needham*

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New couple of problems with xmonad 0.17
by Michael Needham 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

Hello again: The journey continues. I have Xmonad on EndeavourOS running in almost basic form and I am going to start by pasting my whole xmobarrc and xmonad.hs files here. I am attaching them so I hope this works. I am getting an error when I try to restart that xmonad is not in path (using mod - q) but it now works fine from lightdm and startx commands. It recompiles without errors. The workstations are not showing up in xmobar though the previous issue with xmobar was resolved by proc call in xmonad.hs to include -x 0 in the xproc (see attached xmonad.hs) Hopefully I can get the hs file tweaked so that xmobar has picom transparency and get the workspaces to show up, which is what I am not sure I set that up correctly in my xmond.hs. Hope someone can spot the error for me or suggest a fix. Everyone have a great day (BTW) would like the workspaces clickable as well as hotkey changeable. Thanks in advance. Files attached.

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Configuration Issue version 0.17
by Michael Needham 02 Apr '22

02 Apr '22

Hello all: I am not sure how I borked my xmonad been trying to configure it to run trayer xmobar and dmenu and started working with it today. I added workspaces to the config and now it appears this has borked my xmobar. I am simply trying to get xmobar to show the workspaces. Xmobar starts and then quits I can restart from terminal but the minute I close the terminal it disappears again. I have to assume I am doing something wrong as it worked before the workspaces. please see both config files below xmobarrc: ------------------ Config { overrideRedirect = False , font = "xft:ubunutu" , bgColor = "#5f5f5f" , fgColor = "#f8f8f2" , position = TopW L 90 , commands = [ Run Weather "KMCI" [ "--template", "<weather> <tempC>°C" , "-L", "0" , "-H", "25" , "--low" , "lightblue" , "--normal", "#f8f8f2" , "--high" , "red" ] 36000 , Run Cpu [ "-L", "3" , "-H", "50" , "--high" , "red" , "--normal", "green" ] 10 , Run Alsa "default" "Master" [ "--template", "<volumestatus>" , "--suffix" , "True" , "--" , "--on", "" ] , Run Memory ["--template", "Mem: <usedratio>%"] 10 , Run Swap [] 10 , Run Date "%a %Y-%m-%d <fc=#8be9fd>%H:%M</fc>" "date" 10 , Run XMonadLog ] , sepChar = "%" , alignSep = "}{" , template = "%XMonadLog% }{ %alsa:default:Master% | %cpu% | %memory% * %swap% | %KMCI% | %date% " } _____________ xmonad.hs: ------------------------ Config { overrideRedirect = False , font = "xft:ubunutu" , bgColor = "#5f5f5f" , fgColor = "#f8f8f2" , position = TopW L 90 , commands = [ Run Weather "KMCI" [ "--template", "<weather> <tempC>°C" , "-L", "0" , "-H", "25" , "--low" , "lightblue" , "--normal", "#f8f8f2" , "--high" , "red" ] 36000 , Run Cpu [ "-L", "3" , "-H", "50" , "--high" , "red" , "--normal", "green" ] 10 , Run Alsa "default" "Master" [ "--template", "<volumestatus>" , "--suffix" , "True" , "--" , "--on", "" ] , Run Memory ["--template", "Mem: <usedratio>%"] 10 , Run Swap [] 10 , Run Date "%a %Y-%m-%d <fc=#8be9fd>%H:%M</fc>" "date" 10 , Run XMonadLog ] , sepChar = "%" , alignSep = "}{" , template = "%XMonadLog% }{ %alsa:default:Master% | %cpu% | %memory% * %swap% | %KMCI% | %date% " } --------------------- Hope someone can tell me to revert back or properly add workspaces. I really only want clickable workspaces and launch a terminal on ws 2 and also volume control in trayer with the pipewire controls for proaudio (like gnome volume control or KDE Plasman pa. Thanks in advance and hope someone can see where it went wrong. Thanks in advnace. -- Kind Regards, *Michael Needham*

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Total Noob to Xmonad
by Michael Needham 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

Greetings all; I am brand new to TWMs altogether but have used UNIX and UNIX- like systems for a little over 30 years now. This has been both professionally and personally, I am a System Admin who also develops software. The latter started in 1990 while in college, taking C++ and Java classes and through my part-time internship at my school, writing KSH scripts and data entry work on an IBM AIX server. So I am learning Haskell and Rust now to round out my knowledge of many languages and using EndeavourOS (Arch based) Linux as my daily driver. My machine is a 9+ year old HP Z400 Workstation with 16gb Ram and 500gb SSD. Has some other various USB bits and bobs too all which show up fine running lsusb. I have a very base install of Xmonad 0.17 (compiled from source) and the companion contrib also from source. There is also Xmobar, dmenu and trayer installed. It works, kind of. Using keybindings I can run all apps from dmenu and the regular keys work. My xmonad.hs is just an import of XMonad and defaults set to modMask = mon4Mask and terminal = “alacritty “. I can get into Xmonad through startx ( which in .xinitrc the file is the supplied version from the EOS repository) with the last lines removed and added exec Xmonad). Have to date tried 2 display login managers lightdm and sddm and this system was built initially with XFCE and that has been removed plus dependancies. So Xmonad is the only de currently. All the gtk and qt apps are still installed, and run from dmenu or invoked from CLI. What happens is the dm of choice runs from systemctl just fine. At login you get your dialog box and put in your password, then the machine tries to load the session and just drops you back to the login screen. Upon disabling lightdm or sddm (no matter which, they both behave as described above) you can reboot from an alternate tty (eg cnttl-alt-f2) and reboot. Have tried Xmonad —recompile from alt tty and this hangs the x-session running on tty 0 so I reboot from alt tty and rinse and repeat. So currently the dm is disabled and I through much reading and watching a few tutorials as well as going through the Xmonad documentation, believe it is a PAM Authentication issue? I do have lxsession installed and I think I need a little clarification on what exactly needs to go into Xmonad.hs as far as imports and perhaps hooks. If I am wrong about my conclusion, please advise. I currently have decided to go with sddm if anyone decides to reply. Thank you for help in advance and please forgive me for my verbose post. Regards, Michael Needham

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Complex hotkeys definition
by mito 17 Jan '22

17 Jan '22

Dear all, yet I failed properly occasionally extending "myHotkeys" commands with additional arguments, e.g. like also spawning something when switching workspaces. Say, the default is something like: myHotkeys = [ ... , ("M-2", windows $ W.view "2") ... ] for hitting <Super_L+2> for changing to workspace "2". But what if I wanted to additionally execute some extra command or app – such as launching "konsole" (just for testing; I am going to do something else)? Simply editing and adding stuff link , ("M-2", windows $ W.view "2" $ spawn "konsole") or , ("M-2", windows $ W.view "2" . spawn "konsole") or , ("M-2", windows $ W.view "2" || spawn "konsole") or , ("M-2", windows $ W.view "2" <+> spawn "konsole") doesn't work, due to compilation errors. I am no programmer and haven't yet found the right operators or order; or am I missing brackets? And I don't get the error logs in detail really. Thanks in advance!

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managehook: How to shift apps to a screen in dual-head?
by mito 17 Jan '22

17 Jan '22

Hi all! I got a proper dual-head xrandr configuration with one monitor in landscape view and one in portrait view. So in xmonad I have 2x10 workspaces, which is fine. Sure I can manually navigate and switch the focus or push clients to a specific monitor/screen by mod+{w,e} etc., no problem. – But how to initially shift programs to workspaces on a specific monitor (in myManageHook)? Cheers

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Vote for the new XMonad logo!
by Solid 09 Jan '22

09 Jan '22

Hi, this is a quick reminder that people have one week left to vote for a new XMonad logo! Since there were some concerns regarding having to have a GitHub account in order to participate, we'd like to offer an alternative way of voting—simply reply to this thread. Below are the summarised rules; for more information, as well as the logos themselves, see the GitHub Discussions page[1]: For voting, we will use an instant-runoff[2] type system. In short: - Users rank _a minimum of five (5) submissions_ (by name) according to their preferences in decreasing order (you can vote for your own submission). - If a logo wins a majority of first-preference votes (> 50%) it is chosen. - If not, we eliminate the logo with the least amount of first preference votes, exposing the second preference of those who voted for it. - Rinse and repeat until we have a majority. - If at the end of all that we still don't have a majority, we will act as a tiebreaker and internally vote for a winner from the remaining logos. We will retain veto power in case of inappropriate logos. Team members whose submitted entries are amongst the remaining choices will not partake in the potential tiebreaking vote. Cheers, Tony [1]: https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/discussions/359 [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

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withWorkspace (Actions.DynamicWorkspaces): use fuzzyMatch?
by Ramon Diaz-Uriarte 27 Dec '21

27 Dec '21

Dear All, Summary: ======== I think withWorkspace, from Actions.DynamicWorkspaces, does not honor fuzzyMatch (Prompt.FuzzyMatch). In contrast, selectWorkspace and renameWorkspace (also from DynamicWorkspaces) do work with fuzzyMatch. workspacePrompt (Prompt.Workspace) and switchProjectPrompt (Actions.DynamicProjects) also work with fuzzyMatch. Details ======== With this in my xmonad.hs mySPcentered = def { searchPredicate = fuzzyMatch , sorter = fuzzySort } the following , ("M-m", withWorkspace mySPcentered (windows . W.shift)) does not use fuzzy matching but , ("M-m", workspacePrompt mySPcentered (windows . W.shift)) does use fuzzy matching. Note that , ("M-a", selectWorkspace mySPcentered) , ("M-s", renameWorkspace mySPcentered) both use fuzzy matching (and both selectWorkspace and renameWorkspace are from DynamicWorkspaces). And note that , ("M-w", switchProjectPrompt myProjectConfig) with switchProjectPrompt from Actions.DynamicProjects, also works with fuzzyMatch. Workaround? =========== Complete Haskell ignorant here, but from looking at the source of withWorkspace (Actions.DynamicWorkspaces) and workspacePrompt (Prompt.Workspace), I wonder if withWorkspace should be written as withWorkspace c job = do ws <- gets (workspaces . windowset) sort <- getSortByIndex let ts = map W.tag $ sort ws job' t | t `elem` ts = job t | otherwise = addHiddenWorkspace t >> job t mkXPrompt (Wor "") c (mkComplFunFromList' c ts) job' I have changed the last line from mkXPrompt (Wor "") c (mkCompl ts) job' to mkXPrompt (Wor "") c (mkComplFunFromList' c ts) job' Using this in my xmonad.hs seems to work fine with windows' shift, copy and shiftThenView (last one from Ivan Malison's https://github.com/ivanmalison/dotfiles/blob/0a84ad772e21155cfc00458b66ccb7…) Best, -- 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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Different xmonad configs?
by nyam 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

Hi all! Is there an option to compile and (re)start etc. individual 'xmonad.hs', such as one has different DE/WMs and wants to use e. g. together with their own adapted xmonad? – Like: $ xmonad --file=/path/to/xmonad-de1.hs --recompile $ exec xmonad --file=/path/to/xmonad-de1.hs or $ xmonad --file=/path/to/xmonad-de2.hs --recompile $ xmonad --restart --file=/path/to/xmonad-de2.hs or $ xmonad --recompile --file=/path/to/xmonad-pure.hs $ exec xmonad --file=/path/to/xmonad-pure.hs Would be a cool feature, though so far the manpage or any web resources don't mention it. Cheers!

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xmonad 0.17.0, xmonad-contrib 0.17.0 released!
by Solid 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ XMONAD AND XMONAD-CONTRIB 0.17.0 ARE AVAILABLE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ New versions of xmonad and xmonad-contrib have been released. Check out our [download page] for instructions on where to get them. It's been a little over 3 years since xmonad 0.15, and a little over 2 years since xmonad-contrib 0.16. A lot has happened. This post is an overview of the most important changes. To celebrate this milestone, we would like to announce a contest for a new xmonad logo (see section 3). Last but not least, in section 4 we're looking to raise funds to keep the XMonad project and community alive and relevant in the next decade. With the [final X.Org Server 21.1 release] being announced today, there are some obvious challenges ahead of us. [download page]: <https://xmonad.org/download.html> [final X.Org Server 21.1 release]: <https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2021-October/060799.html> 1 xmonad 0.17.0 ═══════════════ This release includes 156 non-merge commits by 22 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/v0.17.0/CHANGES.md> 1.1 Major Breaking Changes ────────────────────────── • `util/GenerateManpage.hs' is no longer distributed in the tarball. 1.2 Selected Features and Improvements ────────────────────────────────────── • Migrated `X.L.LayoutCombinators.(|||)' into `XMonad.Layout', providing the ability to directly jump to a layout with the `JumpToLayout' message. • Improved handling of XDG directories. 1. If all three of xmonad's environment variables (`XMONAD_DATA_DIR', `XMONAD_CONFIG_DIR', and `XMONAD_CACHE_DIR') are set, use them. 2. If there is a build script called `build' (see [here] for usage examples) or configuration `xmonad.hs' in `~/.xmonad', set all three directories to `~/.xmonad'. 3. Otherwise, use the `xmonad' directory in `XDG_DATA_HOME', `XDG_CONFIG_HOME', and `XDG_CACHE_HOME' (or their respective fallbacks). These directories are created if necessary. In the cases of 1. and 3., the build script or executable is expected to be in the config dir. Additionally, the xmonad config binary and intermediate object files were moved to the cache directory (only relevant if using XDG or `XMONAD_CACHE_DIR'). • Recompilation now detects `stack.yaml' (can be a symlink) alongside `xmonad.hs' and switches to using `stack ghc'. Additionally, deprecation warnings during recompilation are no longer suppressed. These can still be suppressed manually using an `OPTIONS_GHC' pragma with `-Wno-deprecations'. [here]: <https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-testing/tree/master/build-scripts> 2 xmonad-contrib 0.17.0 ═══════════════════════ This release includes 582 non-merge commits by 57 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/v0.17.0/CHANGES.md> 2.1 Major Breaking Changes ────────────────────────── • All modules that export bitmap fonts as their default • If xmonad is compiled with XFT support (the default), use an XFT font instead. The previous default expected an X11 misc font (PCF), which is not supported in pango 1.44 anymore and thus some distributions have stopped shipping these. • All modules still exporting a `defaultFoo' constructor • All of these were now removed. You can use the re-exported `def' from `Data.Default' instead. • `XMonad.Hooks.StatusBar', `XMonad.Hooks.StatusBar.PP' (previously `XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog') and `XMonad.Util.Run' • `spawnPipe' no longer uses binary mode handles and defaults to the current locale encoding instead, `xmonadPropLog' and `xmonadPropLog'' now encode their input string in UTF-8, and `dynamicLogString' no longer encodes its output in UTF-8. When these functions are used together, everything should continue to work as it always has, but in isolation behaviour might change. To get the old `spawnPipe' behaviour, `spawnPipeWithNoEncoding' can now be used, and `spawnPipeWithUtf8Encoding' was added as well to force UTF-8 regardless of locale. • `XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog' will be deprecated soon in favor of `XMonad.Hooks.StatusBar' which offers a nicer and easier to use interface for status bars. Laptop users who (dis)connect external monitors dynamically should definitely try this new interface: `XMonad.Hooks.DynamicBars' has been deprecated already. • `XMonad.Hooks.EwmhDesktops' • It is no longer recommended to use standalone hooks directly: Instead of `ewmhDesktopsStartup', `ewmhDesktopsLogHook(Custom)' and `ewmhDesktopsEventHook(Custom)', users should now use the `ewmh' combinator. The `Custom' variants have been replaced by a [more composable interface] which now also allows simply marking windows that request focus as urgent instead of immediately focusing them. Instead of `fullscreenEventHook', use `ewmhFullscreen', which now advertises fullscreen support to applications, fixing fullscreen in [mpv] and many others. • `XMonad.Hooks.Script' • `execScriptHook' now has an `X' constraint (was: `MonadIO'), due to changes in how the xmonad core handles XDG directories. • `XMonad.Actions.WorkspaceNames' • The type of `getWorkspaceNames' was changed to fit into the new `ppRename' field of `PP'. [more composable interface]: <https://xmonad.github.io/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib-0.17.0/XMonad-Hooks-Ewm…> [mpv]: <https://mpv.io/> 2.2 Selected Features and Improvements ────────────────────────────────────── • `XMonad.Actions.EasyMotion' A new module that allows selection of visible screens using a key chord—inspired by [vim-easymotion]. See the animation in the vim-easymotion repo to get some idea of the functionality of this EasyMotion module. • `XMonad.Prompt.OrgMode' A prompt for interacting with [org-mode]. It can be used to quickly save TODOs, NOTEs, and the like with the additional capability to schedule/deadline a task, or use the primary selection as the contents of the note. • `XMonad.Hooks.StatusBar' A new module, providing a nicer, composable interface for status bars that replaces `XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog' and `XMonad.Hooks.DynamicBars'. Supports property-based as well as pipe-based status bars, multiple status bars (Xinerama), and takes care of restarting the bars as needed. • `XMonad.Hooks.Rescreen' A new module, providing custom hooks for screen (xrandr) configuration changes. These are used internally by `XMonad.Hooks.StatusBar' to restart status bars/systrays after xrandr, and can also be used to invoke xrandr or autorandr when an output is (dis)connected. • `XMonad.Util.Hacks' A collection of hacks and fixes that should be easily accessible to users, like a fix for the fullscreen behaviour of chromium based applications when using windowed fullscreen, or a fix to make certain Java applications play more nicely with xmonad. • `XMonad.Hooks.WindowSwallowing' A new module to implement window swallowing; optionally via sublayouting. Hide parent windows like terminals when opening other programs (like image viewers) from within them, restoring them once the child application closes. • `XMonad.Util.ClickableWorkspaces' A new module providing `clickablePP', which when applied to the `PP' pretty-printer used by `XMonad.Hooks.StatusBar.PP', will make the workspace tags clickable in XMobar (for switching focus). Note that `XMonad.Layout.IndependentScreens' and `XMonad.Actions.WorkspaceNames' now also use the same composable `ppRename' interface as `XMonad.Util.ClickableWorkspaces' so it's much easier to use them with one another. • `XMonad.Util.Loggers' • Added `logTitles' to log all window titles (focused and unfocused ones) on the focused workspace, as well as `logTitlesOnScreen' as a screen-specific variant thereof. • `XMonad.Actions.TopicSpace' • Added `TopicItem', as well as the helper functions `topicNames', `tiActions', `tiDirs', `noAction', and `inHome' for a drastically simpler specification of topics. • `XMonad.Hooks.ServerMode' • To make it easier to use, the `xmonadctl' client is now included in `scripts/'. [vim-easymotion]: <https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion> [org-mode]: <https://orgmode.org/> 3 Logo Contest ══════════════ We'd also like to announce a contest to create a new xmonad logo to replace the current one. If you want to participate, please submit at most /three/ logos (in SVG format) to [this GitHub Discussion] by the 31st of January. Please do not vote for a logo yet—voting will start after the above deadline. Your logo will need to be licensed under a suitable freely distributable license; for example, the CC BY-SA 4.0. The prize for the winner is `$100'! For voting, we will use an [instant-runoff] type system. In short: • Users rank a minimum of three submissions according to their preferences in decreasing order. • If a logo wins a majority of first-preference votes (> 50%) it is chosen. • If not, we eliminate the logo with the least amount of first preference votes, exposing the second preference of those who voted for it. • Rinse and repeat until we have a majority. • If at the end of all that we still don't have a majority, we will act as a tiebreaker and internally vote for a winner from the remaining logos. We will retain veto power in case of inappropriate logos. Team members whose submitted entries are amongst the remaining choices will not partake in the potential tiebreaking vote. [this GitHub Discussion]: https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/discussions/343 [instant-runoff]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting> 4 Looking for Funding ═════════════════════ TL;DR: We would love your support to keep xmonad alive! You can support us via [GitHub Sponsors] and the [Open Collective] is our fiscal host such that our funds are fully transparent. [GitHub Sponsors]: <https://github.com/sponsors/xmonad> [Open Collective]: <https://opencollective.com/xmonad> XMonad has been around since 2007 and has a great track record in stability. There's an active, vibrant community of users and developers who help each other and contribute fixes and extensions. Keeping this community organized, reviewing and merging contributions and responding to bug reports is almost a full-time job, however, not to mention doing actual development. We've been struggling to find volunteers to do all this work, especially the less exciting bits like documentation. Despite that struggle, we managed to repay a portion of our technological and organizational debt over the last year, and to pick up the [pace of development]. We're worried about the sustainability of that pace, however. As with the previous generations of maintainers, our studies and sabbaticals won't last forever. Your help is needed to keep the project alive and well! We'd like to raise enough funds to enable at least one core developer to work on XMonad full-time (or several part-time). To learn more about our plans for the future, see our [GitHub Sponsors] profile. Thanks to [one unexpected appearance on the Hacker News front page], we already gathered a couple dozen sponsors who donate in total over $300 a month. We're incredibly grateful for this support! Our fiscal host is the [Open Source Collective], so our budget is fully transparent on [our Collective's page]. If you also want to aid our efforts going forward, please consider becoming a supporter as well. We accept both monthly and one-time donations through [GitHub Sponsors] and [Open Collective]. Thank you! [pace of development]: https://xmonad.org/images/xmonad-0-17/commits.svg [GitHub Sponsors]: <https://github.com/sponsors/xmonad> [one unexpected appearance on the Hacker News front page]: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28793941> [Open Source Collective]: <https://www.oscollective.org/> [our Collective's page]: <https://opencollective.com/xmonad> [Open Collective]: <https://opencollective.com/xmonad>

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