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darcs patch: Config.hs: rm commented out keybinding (... (and 1 more)
by gwern0＠gmail.com 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

2 patches for repository community.haskell.org:/srv/code/xmonad: Thu Jan 12 19:01:15 EST 2012 gwern0(a)gmail.com * Config.hs: rm commented out keybinding (dead for years) Thu Jan 12 20:04:10 EST 2012 gwern0(a)gmail.com * Config.hs: implement mod-shift-/ newbie keybinding guide per http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=182

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Desktop integration, problem with screen focus
by Hans Chen 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

Hi, I use xmonad with KDE integration[1]. After some changes it works surprisingly well, but there's one minor annoyance: the screen focus only changes when clicking on windows (or when the mouse cursor enters windows if focusFollowsMouse is set to True), not when clicking on desktops. The cause seems to be plasma-desktop, KDE's desktop, since everything works as expected if I quit plasma-desktop. The question is, is it possible to fix this somehow? >From what I understand xmonad creates virtual root windows on each screen to detect if focus should change. My guess is that plasma-desktop covers these root windows. In that case, a possible solution could be to put windows matching _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE = _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DESKTOP below the root windows. But how? I'm still new to Haskell and xmonad, so a thorough explanation would be much appreciated. If you want to try to reproduce this, you can use this pretty standard configuration: http://mogger.ath.cx/xmonad.hs (I have just added kde4Config), and then run plasma-desktop. It doesn't matter if xmonad or plasma-desktop starts first. Thanks, Hans --- [1] http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Config-Kde.html

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Issue 513 in xmonad: 'Failed to load session "xmonad"' error after selecting "GNOME with Xmonad" option in lightdm on Quantel beta
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 513 by t...(a)takeontom.com: 'Failed to load session "xmonad"' error after selecting "GNOME with Xmonad" option in lightdm on Quantel beta http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=513 Note: this is similar to bug #512 and might/probably be the same underlying issue, but is arrived at in a different way and results in a different error Note: Have also added this bug to launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xmonad/+bug/1047794 On a fairly virgin install of the Quantel beta: $ sudo apt-get install xmonad reboot select "GNOME with Xmonad" from lightdm attempt to login the screen redraws, sometimes to a blank screen, sometimes to the lightdm screen. the error 'Failed to load session "xmonad"' is displayed on a popup. pressing OK on the popup takes me back to lightdm. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: xmonad 0.10-4build2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.14-generic 3.5.3 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Sep 8 11:42:56 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120905.2) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=linux PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: xmonad UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) Attachments: .xsession-errors 4.6 KB .xsession-errors.old 78 bytes lightdm.log 3.7 KB x-0.log 2.1 KB x-0-greeter.log 6.0 KB x-0-greeter.log.old 6.2 KB

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Patch to fix Issue 177: xmonad does not follow ICCCM and ignores WM_TAKE_FOCUS protocol
by Carlos López Camey 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

This fix was uploaded by Adam Vogt in the comment 33 of the issue discussion (http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=177#c33) but hasn't been applied yet. As other comments suggest, I could apply it without troubles to the current xmonad head. cheers

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Issue 519 in xmonad: Java ignores keyboard
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 519 by oka....(a)gmail.com: Java ignores keyboard http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=519 What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Run IntelliJ IDEA or NetBeans 2. Try to type in any text field What is the expected output? At least something should appear in text field. What do you see instead? Nothing, not even cursor. What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? ArchLinux, xmonad 0.10.1 It seems that some java app totally ignore keyboard input. I've already tryed everything from XMonad FAQ related to java issues. Strange thing: keyboard input in these apps works flawlessly with i3wm.

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Fwd: A community-driven effort to make XMonad better and better
by Lally Singh 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Another gmail account defaults to reply-all. Ugh. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lally Singh <lally.singh(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [xmonad] A community-driven effort to make XMonad better and better To: Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner(a)gmail.com> I think darcs is a hinderer to xmonad development. The lack of activity, but the plentitude of interest in xmonad indicate that much. Alfredo: please count me in. My github username is lally. On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner(a)gmail.com>wrote: > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Brian McKenna <brian(a)brianmckenna.org> > wrote: > > As the author of osxmonad, I'm really happy with this initiative. I'm > > not so much of a GitHub person as a Bitbucket person but that's beside > > the point. > > > > A central place for all of XMonad, osxmonad, Contrib, extras and the > > website to live would be awesome. From what I can tell, GitHub is > > being used as a code hosting tool - not a brainwashing clinic. > > xmonad used darcs and therefore http://hub.darcs.net would > be a better fit. Joachim's patch tracker works and darcs works. > > I think we only need more reviewers and contributors and a > more active committer to the canonical darcs repository. > > I don't mind and do use hg or git but let's not use the slow > release problem as a reason to change the vcs system. > > > On 7 November 2012 10:52, Alfredo Di Napoli <alfredo.dinapoli(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Thanks Tim for winding-back the whole thread history. I'm not a Github > >> evangelist and I don't like the fold this thread is taking. > >> I have not prejudices and I'm not get payed from Github for opening > repos. I > >> just thought if is during this time frame the most used social coding > app to > >> get things done, and considered that the existing fork of the Copenaghen > >> guys, as well as osxmonad are STILL on Github, for me is the most > reasonable > >> choice. Stop! > >> > >> As regards the website writing thing, again, I don't want to pass the > idea > >> I'm the leader of something. I've just kickstarted the whole thing like > a > >> community thing! Please get involved! > >> You don't like the idea of a new website? Fine! I'll stick with > anything the > >> community wants :) > >> I just thought that if we have a new website we also have an > alternative, as > >> who knows we like the new website more the the old? :) > >> > >> To sum up, I think that Tim has exactly made my point, so the rest it's > up > >> to you. If you like the idea, please chime in. > >> Otherwise maybe we'll continue with our "fork" to see where it brings > us, > >> and the xmonad official repo will continue to be in darcs, exactly as > is it > >> now. > >> > >> Have a nice day! > >> A. > >> > >> On 7 November 2012 18:35, <timothyhobbs(a)seznam.cz> wrote: > >>> > >>> Read back in this thread. There was no sugestion that someone doesn't > >>> exist. Alfredo asked if the project was maintained after discovering > that > >>> there were not many recent commits to the darcs repo and patches for > bugs > >>> which had yet to be merged. Another user chimed in that they too > would like > >>> those patches merged into master and that the lack of a maintainer was > what > >>> was holding things back. That second user said that they were > maintaining > >>> their fixed repo on github. Alfredo kindly volunteered to maintain the > >>> project, and suggested bringing the project onto github. No > assumption was > >>> ever made by anyone. Except perhaps Alfredo's assumption that the > website > >>> needed a re-write as well :P > >>> > >>> Tim > >>> > >>> > >>> ---------- Původní zpráva ---------- > >>> Od: Brandon Allbery <allbery.b(a)gmail.com> > >>> Datum: 7. 11. 2012 > >>> Předmět: Re: [xmonad] A community-driven effort to make XMonad better > and > >>> better > >>> > >>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Joachim Breitner > >>> <mail(a)joachim-breitner.de> wrote: > >>> > >>> But what I read out of Brandon's mails is: It is not a different > >>> infrastructure that xmonad needs most, it is active and enduring > >>> maintenance and development. I've often seen people get excited about > >>> > >>> > >>> It's part that (and how much activity do you think a Haskell-based > project > >>> gets? if I applied the Githubbers; Witnesses model to *that* I get a > >>> rewrite into PHP!) and part that I detest Github evangelists. > >>> > >>> It really is The One True Church behavior. We don't exist, have no > >>> organization, etc. because we had the presumption to not use The Holy > >>> Github? This is the message of Github evangelists, repeatedly, on > multiple > >>> projects. > >>> > >>> NO. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine > >>> associates > >>> allbery.b(a)gmail.com > >>> ballbery(a)sinenomine.net > >>> unix/linux, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure > >>> http://sinenomine.net > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> xmonad mailing list > >>> xmonad(a)haskell.org > >>> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/xmonad > >>> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> xmonad mailing list > >> xmonad(a)haskell.org > >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/xmonad > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > xmonad mailing list > > xmonad(a)haskell.org > > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/xmonad > > _______________________________________________ > xmonad mailing list > xmonad(a)haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/xmonad >

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xinerama and workspaces
by timothyhobbs＠seznam.cz 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

Hello, I have tried both greedy and non greedy workspace switching. Neither is to my taste. Has anyone found a way to bind workspaces to monitors? I would like to have workspaces 1-4 on monitor 1 and 5-8 on monitor 2. So that if I press mod-1 I would switch focus to monitor 1 and monitor 1 would switch to workspace 1. And then if I pressed mod-6 focus would switch to monitor 2 (leaving monitor 1 at workspace 1) and then monitor 2 would switch to workspace 6. Thank you for your time, Timothy

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Re: [xmonad] [Haskell-cafe] Is XMonad still developed or with a current maintainer?
by Alfredo Di Napoli 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

Sorry, I've posted the reply on Haskell cafè :D You have catch all my points, good to see what there is someone who agrees > with me :) > I don't care who is the maintainer either, because a community-driven repo > on github would be a great deal more effective. > After all, the maintainer is the person that updates and push the package > on Hackage, keep it updated and so on and so forth. > Is the social coding era, I think these are all tasks that could be > performed by the XMonad community :) > As soon as I get info from Adam I'll keep you posted :) On 6 November 2012 12:46, Alfredo Di Napoli <alfredo.dinapoli(a)gmail.com>wrote: > You have catch all my points, good to see what there is someone who agrees > with me :) > I don't care who is the maintainer either, because a community-driven repo > on github would be a great deal more effective. > After all, the maintainer is the person that updates and push the package > on Hackage, keep it updated and so on and so forth. > Is the social coding era, I think these are all tasks that could be > performed by the XMonad community :) > > As soon as I get info from Adam I'll keep you posted :) > A. > > > On 6 November 2012 12:40, Johan Brinch <brinchj(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Alfredo Di Napoli >> <alfredo.dinapoli(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > Ah! The choice of an "official" maintainer is secondary, imo. It could >> be >> > any of you, me, or whatever. I think that what is really important is to >> > have a centralized point of convergence :) >> >> Very good to see some interest in the code base ;-) >> Maybe you should also check the IRC channel? #xmonad at freenode. >> There's a lot of people in there. >> >> I agree, that it would be good to merge the repositories, and I'd >> prefer GitHub for hosting. I don't care who's the maintainer, except >> it should be someone who's available and has the time and interest (a >> fellow user). >> >> Whether it's our repository or somewhere else, I don't really care, as >> long as we can commit to it without too much hassle. Maybe we could >> finally get those bugs in core fixed ;-) >> >> Anyway, let me know when you hear something. >> >> -- >> Johan Brinch >> > >

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Is XMonad still developed or with a current maintainer?
by Alfredo Di Napoli 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

Crossposted from Haskell cafè: Hi guys, looking at the Darcs repo it seems that something is happening, but XMonad wasn't updated in a year on Hackage and everything seems to be still. Is XMonad still actively developed? If yes, who is the current maintainer? It would be good to have him listed in the Hackage package description, to be able to contact him. Cheers, A.

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Still seeing Java gray screens after applying patch from Issue 177
by Sean Neilan 04 Nov '12

04 Nov '12

Dear Creators/Users of the most amazing window manager in all of cyberspace, I was running the xmonad & xmonad contrib from the ubuntu repos but java Charles web debugging proxy gave me gray screens. http://www.charlesproxy.com/ In order to run Java apps, I downloaded and patched XMonad 10.1 http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=177#makechanges I put the new compiled xmonad in my ~/.cabal/bin folder and linked /usr/bin/xmonad to ~/.cabal/bin/xmonad Without restarting X11, I did xmonad --recompile and still see grey screens when starting Java apps. I have Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit with sun java 1.7.0_09. I'm using Gnome3 with XMonad inside. my xmonad.hs is here http://pastebin.com/tgEBpEui my ghc-pkg list is here http://pastebin.com/wg6L8vdA I tried adding import XMonad.Hooks.ICCCMFocus to my xmonad.hs but that caused errors. I have the right xmonad version: ➜ .xmonad xmonad --version xmonad 0.10.1 I have cat named chloe: https://www.facebook.com/catnamedchloe ghc-pkg check doesn't seem to be erroring: http://pastebin.com/mRhjnYcf Is there something else I should try? Thank you for your time. -Sean http://seanneilan.com/

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