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Bug tracker set up
by dons＠cse.unsw.edu.au 29 Apr '07

29 Apr '07

We've set up a bug tracker for keeping on top of xmonad open issues. Please use it to report bugs! http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/list The (not so secret) goal is to have xmonad the best specified, most stable window manager in its class, and properly tracking open issues should help this. We've also got a man page now: http://xmonad.org/manpage.html Thanks to fantasma (who also set up xmonad.org in the first place). -- Don

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Ideas on configuring workspaces?
by Dale Jordan 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

Firstly, thanks for the tips on getting XM working on FreeBSD. I got it working after upgrading to FreeBSD 6.2 (required to build GHC 6.6) and getting Cabal from darcs. Finally a window manager a non-X-guru can (mostly) understand. I have been looking at having XM configure my workspaces, rather than doing it manually after prelaunching apps in .xinitrc or launching them from the keyboard. However, I don't have a clue how to correlate the app's windowID, when they decide to map themselves, with any data structures I might build in Config.hs. Does anyone have any clues about what info is available through X that might help? Dale Jordan

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"Empty" KeyMask: 0 vs AnyModifier vs ...?
by Andy Gimblett 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

Hi all, I'm trying to set up keybindings in Config.hs which require no modifier at all. eg, to launch a terminal when I hit F2. The following works: , ((0, xK_F2 ), spawn "urxvt") but doesn't feel "right". Is there a better candidate for the KeyMask field? I thought anyModifier might be right (something Anselm once said seemed to support that: http://www.suckless.org/pipermail/dwm/2006-October/001078.html ) but no, it doesn't. Any thoughts? Thanks, -Andy -- Andy Gimblett Computer Science Department University of Wales Swansea http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csandy/

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How do I know if Xinerama's working?
by Bruce Stephens 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

I've just built X11-extras and xmonad, largely without incident, and Xinerama seems not to be working: when I create an xterm, it spans both screens. Is that to be expected? I was expecting each screen to contain its own workspace. There's no problem with my X.org setup in general: I have a libXinerama.so.1, and (for example) ion3 links against it and seems to use it. (xmonad doesn't link against it, according to ldd, but I'm not sure whether I should expect it to or not.)

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Using dzen for a popup statusbar in xmonad
by dons＠cse.unsw.edu.au 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

I've been experimenting with simple approaches to having an external statusbar for xmonad. One possible option is to use dzen, a console-based X statusbar client: http://gotmor.googlepages.com/dzen Using dzen, we can , for example, have a popup clock/system status shell script, like so: #!/bin/sh au=`date +"%H.%M %a %b %d"` uk=`TZ=GMT date +"UK %H.%M"` us=`TZ=America/New_York date +"NY %H.%M"` ca=`TZ=America/Los_Angeles date +"SF %H.%M"` hw=`/sbin/sysctl hw.setperf | sed "s/.*=//" | perl -anle 'print (0.6 + ($F[0]) / 100)'` ut=`uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'` bt=`/usr/sbin/apm | sed -n 's/.*: $[^ ]*$.*$/\1/;2p;4p' | xargs printf "apm %s%%, AC %s\n"` (printf "%s : %s : %s : %s : %s Ghz : %s :%s\n" "$au" "$uk" "$us" "$ca" "$hw" "$bt" "$ut"; sleep 10) | dzen2 So this just gathers some info from my system, then pipes a string into dzen2, and times it out after 10 seconds. We can then bind to this 'status' script from Config.hs: , ((modMask, xK_s ), spawn "/home/dons/bin/status") That is, mod-s pops up a 10 second status bar with the time, and some system info. Probably we can do some more fun things with dzen. Happy hacking, Don

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thanks and a feature request
by brad clawsie 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

thanks to everyone on this list and in #haskell who assisted me with freebsd build issues. the combination of an updated Cabal library, and X11-extras-0.1 fixed my issues. i am now using xmonad at home, work, and on my laptop (all running freebsd6.2). as a feature request, it would be nice to pre-assign workspaces to application names in Config.hs. i don't see the need to be too dogmatic about copying dwm, but this is one feature i like. thanks again brad

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#xmonad irc channel created
by dons＠cse.unsw.edu.au 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Feel free to drop by #xmonad on irc.freenode.net. All the devs of xmonad are there, and a fair bit of development discussion happens there. -- Don

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compiling problem
by Michael Vanier 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Hi everyone, First off, thanks to everyone who's working on xmonad. I'm an ion user and I'd love to have equivalent functionality implemented in a (*ahem*) better language. I've been going through the procedure to install xmonad-0.1, and I successfully installed all the dependencies. But the xmonad build fails thusly: Preprocessing executables for xmonad-0.1... Building xmonad-0.1... XMonad.hs:27:7: Could not find module `System.Posix.Process': Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. I'm running ghc-6.6 compiled from source on Debian Linux. Any hints? Mike

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darcs patch: change to using Properties to transmit state info (+4 ...
by Stefan O'Rear 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Tue Apr 24 20:44:34 PDT 2007 Stefan O'Rear <stefanor(a)cox.net> * change to using Properties to transmit state info (+4 loc)

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New release of X11-extras
by dons＠cse.unsw.edu.au 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

This is just to announce a maintainence release of the X11-extras package, including ./configure. This avoids the autoreconf dependency, and should make it a bit easier to get X11-extras built. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11-extras-0.1 Regarding the issues a couple of people on *BSD systems have had building the X11 package: this seems to be due to an interaction between an older version of Cabal, and some recent changes to X11's configure script. If you've had trouble linking the Haskell X11 package on a BSD (or Apple) system, try updating to the darcs version of Cabal first (haskell.org/cabal) -- Don

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