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Issue 514 in xmonad: Bluetile is not launched correctly when using the "GNOME + Bluetile" lightdm option in Ubuntu 12.10 beta
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 514 by t...(a)takeontom.com: Bluetile is not launched correctly when using the "GNOME + Bluetile" lightdm option in Ubuntu 12.10 beta http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=514 Note: have also created a launchpad bug for this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluetile/+bug/1047894 On a fresh 12.10 beta install: $ sudo apt-get install bluetile reboot select "GNOME + Bluetile" in lightdm login The system goes into an odd state. It only displays the default ubuntu background image. No icons or menus. Some Gnome keyboard shortcuts work, e.g. Ctrl+Alt+t to launch a terminal. When the terminal is launched, it has no window chrome. Just the window contents and menu bar. From the launched terminal: $ bluetile Bluetile now launches fully and offers full functionality. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: bluetile 0.6-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.14-generic 3.5.3 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Sep 8 16:38:35 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120905.2) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: bluetile UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Issue 512 in xmonad: default xmonad install crashes when first logging in via lightdm in quantel
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 09 Sep '12

09 Sep '12

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 512 by t...(a)takeontom.com: default xmonad install crashes when first logging in via lightdm in quantel http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=512 Also added this bug to launchpad (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xmonad/+bug/1047785) On a fairly virgin install of the Quantel beta: $ sudo apt-get install xmonad then reboot select xmonad in lightdm attempt to log in lightdm simply hangs and becomes completely unresponsive. have provided some logs. not sure what other information I can provide to help with this issue? will also try to replicate on a completely virgin install. 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 11:19:40 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: 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 .xsession-errors 4.6 KB .xsession-errors.old 78 bytes

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Issue 346 in xmonad: xmonad will not render dialog windows.
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 09 Sep '12

09 Sep '12

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 346 by Monkey.Andrew: xmonad will not render dialog windows. http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=346 What steps will reproduce the problem? Opening (so far) any gtk application's open dialog (file > open), and the dialog will not render, as if it were an invisible window. The proof of its existence lies in how it steals focus from its parent window and how the cursor changes when on top of it. When I move the dialog window, it appears and I can interact with it normally from there on out. This has happened with chromium, firefox, openoffice, and gvbam. What is the expected output? What do you see instead? See above. What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? 0.9 on archlinux Are you using an xmonad.hs? Please attach it and the output of "xmonad --recompile". main=do xmonad $ defaultConfig { terminal ="urxvt -bg black -fg white +sb -tr -sh 50" , modMask =mod4Mask , borderWidth=3 Please provide any additional information below. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings

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Merging patches
by Carsten Mattner 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

Hi, are all Xmonad maintainers busy or what's holding up applying the XMonad.Prompt and the ghc-7.6 compatibility patches? Anything we can do to help get these upstream?

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Hide xmobar under windows
by Eric Velten de Melo 02 Sep '12

02 Sep '12

Ok, I am pretty sure this should not be too complicated to do, but I've been trying many ways to hide the xmobar under the windows and so far haven't achieved anything. Interesting thing is that many people report having this behavior as something undesirable, but that's precisely what I want. I don't want xmobar showing up on my workspace all the time, and wanted somehow to toggle it on and off. I have played with both toggleStruts in xmonad.hs and lowerOnStart = True | False in .xmobarrc, but got nothing. Maybe this is something very simple, but I'm not being able to do it. So far my xmonad.hs and .xmobarrc look like this: --------- xmonad.hs -------------------------------------------------------------- import XMonad import qualified Data.Map as M import Data.Either.Utils import qualified Network.MPD as MPD import System.IO import XMonad.Actions.GridSelect import XMonad.ManageHook import XMonad.Hooks.ManageHelpers import XMonad.Layout.NoBorders import XMonad.Hooks.EwmhDesktops import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks import XMonad.Actions.SpawnOn import XMonad.Layout.PerWorkspace import XMonad.Util.Run(spawnPipe) import qualified XMonad.Util.EZConfig as EZ myTerminal = "sakura" _myKeys = [ ("M-t", goToSelected defaultGSConfig) ,("M-p", spawnHere "exe=`yeganesh -x` && eval \"exec $exe\"") ,("M-s", sendMessage ToggleStruts) ,("<XF86Tools>", spawn "mpd") ,("<XF86AudioPlay>", spawn "mpc --no-status toggle") ,("<XF86AudioStop>", io $ return . fromRight =<< MPD.withMPD MPD.stop) ,("<XF86AudioNext>", io $ return . fromRight =<< MPD.withMPD MPD.next) ,("<XF86AudioPrev>", io $ return . fromRight =<< MPD.withMPD MPD.previous) ] myLayouts = avoidStrutsOn [] $ smartBorders $ layoutHook defaultConfig myManageHook :: ManageHook myManageHook = composeAll [ isFullscreen --> doFullFloat ] myConfig = EZ.additionalKeysP defaultConfig _myKeys main = do xmproc <- spawnPipe "xmobar" xmonad $ ewmh myConfig { terminal = myTerminal, manageHook = myManageHook, layoutHook = myLayouts, logHook = dynamicLogWithPP xmobarPP { ppOutput = hPutStrLn xmproc , ppTitle = xmobarColor "green" "" . shorten 50 } } ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- .xmobarrc ------------------------------------------------------------------- Config { font = "-*-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" , bgColor = "black" , fgColor = "grey" , position = Top , lowerOnStart = False , commands = [ Run Weather "EGPF" ["-t"," <tempC>C","-L","64","-H","77","--normal","green","--high","red","--low","lightblue"] 36000 , Run Cpu ["-L","3","-H","50","--normal","green","--high","red"] 10 , Run Memory ["-t","Mem: <usedratio>%"] 10 , Run Swap [] 10 , Run Date "%a %b %_d %l:%M" "date" 10 , Run StdinReader ] , sepChar = "%" , alignSep = "}{" , template = "%StdinReader% }{ %cpu% | %memory% * %swap% <fc=#ee9a00>%date%</fc> | %EGPF%" } ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any help appreciated, Eric

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XInput support in XMonad?
by Ilya Portnov 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Hello xmonad world. My current desktop setup includes remote control unit, which sends keyboard events (for example, it sends Ctrl-P on Pause button). I want to handle such keypresses differently than keypresses from usual keyboard. For example, currently, if I press Ctrl-P on keyboard or Pause on the remote control, when Firefox window is active, both actions open Print dialog. But I want to run, for example, "mpc pause" on Pause button. AFAIK, one way to differ key/button press events from different devices is to use XInput X11 extension. That extension might allow us to do many other funny things; for example, we could get pressure value from wacom tablets, and so on. Technically, XInput support for XMonad will require FFI bindings to XInput client library (-lXi) and changes in events processing in xmonad core. Maybe, there should be new field in XMonad config, in addition to `keys' and `mouseBindings', to specify XInput events handlers. Currently i'm working on xinput FFI bindings. Questions are: * Could such changes in xmonad core events processing be accepted for xmonad-core? Note that they will introduce new system library dependency (-lXi in addition to existing -lX11). * What features of XInput might be useful for XMonad? For example, I don't know what to do with pressure value in window manager, but maybe someone knows? Any other thoughts are welcome too. With best regards, Ilya Portnov.

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Fwd: xmonad{,-contrib} on github
by Michael Sloan 28 Aug '12

28 Aug '12

Whoops meant to send this to the whole list. I'll attempt to add carsten's response as a reply to this. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Sloan <mgsloan(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 1:31 AM Subject: Re: [xmonad] xmonad{,-contrib} on github To: Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner(a)gmail.com> I agree that the pull request system is non-ideal, but if you see people misusing it, just let them know. Anything can be abused. Between topic branches and rebasing, it's fairly effective. While it's unfortunate that whitespace problems aren't pointed out, whitespace differences are (and are represented much more intuitively than most diff formats), so it's pretty clear when you've introduced a whitespace problem. Here's a concrete example of the benefits of some degree of centralization: Today, I tried to rebuild all of my favorite Haskell projects using GHC 7.6. Whenever I ran into errors while cabal-installing, I'd immediately google "github haskell $PKG", hope that one was there, and take a look at the recent commits, pull requests, and what forks exist. For example: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/1003 https://github.com/haskell-pkg-janitors/X11/pull/9 https://github.com/haskell/HTTP/pull/27 Now that I'm looking to do the same with XMonad, I get more errors (XMonad/Core.hs:34:25: Module `Prelude' does not export `catch'), but I have no way to tell if anyone else has already fixed these things. Minor stuff, sure, but I imagine someone's already done it, and it'd be convenient to just clone their repository. Of course, nothing is fundamentally different from the darcs situation - someone could have sent out an email that would achieve the same. But the point is, they don't, because the barrier to entry is too high. Github lowers this barrier, encouraging more speculative commits, providing a way of finding out what people are working on. If anything, github promotes a healthier decentralized community, because the forks are centrally tracked, more discoverable. This can increase the potential for collaboration and reduction of duplicated work -Michael On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Jochen Keil <jochen.keil(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hello, >> >> lately I got a bit into github after being reluctant for a long time. >> My experiences were very positive after seeing how easy and fast it is >> to submit and merge patches (pull requests). >> >> Even if those patches are not accepted it is quite simple to follow >> the development and rebase your own patches. I have to admit that I'm >> a bit biased though. I mainly use git for most of my work, so the >> git/github workflow is very appealing to me. >> >> Another big point is, that I think switching to github could revive >> development for xmonad which is currently rather stale. Since git is >> very popular these days I'd figure that there are many potential >> contributors to xmonad on a github base. >> >> So I just ask around if anybody is also interested in this and would >> like to support my case. However, counter arguments are welcome too. :) > > There's no point in doing that and I don't think xmonad development > has stalled at all. Although I have to use github as a contributor to > and maintainer of projects, I never like using the pull request > mechanism and am in the camp of people having asked for a way > to disable that feature like you can disable the wiki. Actually I > usually just download the patch(es) and git-am them locally. > Github is opaque and why should I let a closed source web app > muck around with my repository? > > Centralizing everything in and around github negates what a dvcs > really set out to enable and solve. We need to use darcs/git as it's > intended and teach projects to have at least a second official > mirror kept in sync on a totally different server. > > Both git and darcs work well and best via email because it's > another centralized (code review) mechanism you avoid. > With the right list server config - requiring reply-to-all - you will > reach the recipients even if the list itself on CC is temporarily > down and therefore being able to discuss a patch with the > list server (or github pull request server) not reachable. > > Also github doesn't show you whitespace problems in patches > and you cannot edit the patches either as you can do locally. > Quite often the ease of use of github pull request results in > sloppy patches or not using topic branches and therefore > creating one pull request for each modification of a patch. > > I could go on... > > I'll stop here but will say that I see no problem with darcs. > It's a good tool and doesn't have to hide behind git or hg. > They're all adopting features from each other and getting > more similar. darcs need real world prominent users. > > Instead of pull requests you can use things like patchwork > to gather and process patches from mails. > > _______________________________________________ > xmonad mailing list > xmonad(a)haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/xmonad

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Can I switch layouts based on number of windows in a workspace?
by Jeffrey David Johnson 28 Aug '12

28 Aug '12

I'd like to have a different layout depending on how many windows are visible. Something like: one? --> Full under four? --> Tall otherwise --> Grid I couldn't find an existing function, and didn't make much headway writing my own either. (I tried to use sendMessage $ JumpToLayout "Full" etc. in a managehook) Is there an obvious way to do this? Thanks Jeff

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State of my xmonad config
by Carsten Mattner 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

With Carlos prompt launcher patch applied there's just two issues which prevent me from being ecstatic about xmonad as a replacement for dwm. First of all, it's great to not use dwm but the Prompt module. It works well even quicker although I believe there's no cache in use as in dmenu_run. Second it's superb to have capable replacement for dmenu_run. Here's the outstanding issues I need to look at and find solutions for. Some of them have already gotten suggestions on the list but I didn't yet manage to tackle them. 1) MPlayer window moving to right and down slightly when returning from fullscreen. This seemed to move in bigger steps if the window is larger. 2) Emulate dwm's Mod-0 view for seeing all windows in the 0 tag to get an overview just before I exit xmonad for making sure there's no open window I forgot about which might need interaction. Thanks everybody for xmonad and assistance.

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darcs patch: Fix errors due to removal of catch in GHC7.6
by mgsloan＠gmail.com 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

1 patch for repository http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib: Sun Aug 26 17:12:14 PDT 2012 mgsloan(a)gmail.com * Fix errors due to removal of catch in GHC7.6 note is that this won't be necessary (but will generate warnings) once this GHC bug is fixed: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7167

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