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[patch] narrower BorderResize rectangles placed within border edges
by Jens Petersen 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Hi, This patch improves BorderResize's rectangles placement and geometry. I found the current 10px border-size rather too wide to be convenient (eg I often found myself activating resize when trying to copy output from a floating terminal). Also the rectangles are now placed symmetrically within the border and window edges, no longer extend outside on some sides. The width is reduced to 2px which seems to work well enough and still more lenient than the single pixel of many window manager border decorations. Thanks, Jens

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gap between window and statusbar (xmobar)
by 1126 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Hello Guys! I'm relatively new to xmonad (and Haskell), so this might be a stupid question. But well, I'll shot it anyhow ;) In my config (see below), I have to xmobar's running, one on top with only %StdinReader% and the second on bottom with MPD and Date. The xmobar on top has as Border on Bottom and the xmobar on .. you guess it. Well: while the borders of my windows and the xmobarborder sort of merge (1px + 1px = 2px), there is a gap between the borders of my windows and the xmobar on top. Why is that so and what can I do about it? Here is my xmonad.hs: http://hpaste.org/65398 (Oh, I see it's complaining about redundant $'s and that I should use 'head' ... what does the latter mean?) Greetings from sunny Cologne, 1126

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xmonad recompile error
by Qi Qi 17 Mar '12

17 Mar '12

Hello, When I recompile xmonad.hs by running xmonad --recompile, it gets this error: Error detected while loading xmonad configuration file: /home/qi/.xmonad/xmonad.hs /usr/bin/ld: --hash-size=31: unknown option /usr/bin/ld: use the --help option for usage information collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Does anyone have an idea about it? xmonad's version is 0.10 and ghc version is 7.4.1. The xmonad and its library were installed through aptitude. Thanks. Qi Qi

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darcs patch: add-dynamic-bars-module
by Ben Boeckel 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

1 patch for repository http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib: Previous version submitted here: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2012-March/012465.html Description copied here for completion's sake: The Xrandr calls requires X11 1.6.0 which also causes issues in other places in the code. I can submit these separately, but since this is not really an official submission, I'll leave them out so they don't distract from the meat of the patch. There is code from adamvo's xmonad.hs (getScreens and multiPP) as well. There are still bugs, but this is to help get some testing and other eyes looking at it. Specifically, not all of the bars work all the time. Currently to solve the issue, I just restart XMonad until they're all there. I'm not sure how to best ensure that things work. For launching the status bars, here are my implementations: myStatusBar :: DynamicStatusBar myStatusBar (S id) = do safeSpawn "xmobar" ["-x", idStr, "-C", "[ Run NamedXPropertyLog \"" ++ prop ++ "\" \"" ++ abbr ++ "\" ]"] spawnPipe $ "xmonadpropwrite " ++ prop where abbr = "_XMONAD_LOG" prop = "_XMONAD_LOG_" ++ idStr idStr = show id myStatusBarCleanup :: DynamicStatusBarCleanup myStatusBarCleanup = safeSpawn "killall" ["xmobar"] For this setup, a few other updates are required: My Xrandr additions to the X11 package: https://github.com/mathstuf/X11/tree/dev/xrandr-support The -C option for xmobar, available here (the next branch there uses X11's Xrandr support instead of the built-in stuff as well): https://github.com/mathstuf/xmobar/tree/dev/add-incremental-config-option My xmobarrc is: Config { font = "xft:Inconsolata:pixelsize=9" , border = NoBorder , borderColor = "black" , bgColor = "black" , fgColor = "grey" , position = TopW L 80 , lowerOnStart = True , commands = [ Run Weather "KALB" ["-t","A: <tempC>°C","-L","15","-H","30","--normal","green","--high","red","--low","lightblue"] 36000 , Run MultiCpu ["-S","true","-t","<autototal>","-L","3","-H","40","--low","green","--normal","yellow","--high","red"] 25 , Run Memory ["-S","true","-t","<usedratio>","-L","20","-H","40","--low","green","--normal","yellow","--high","red"] 25 , Run Battery ["-S","true","-t","<left>","-L","30","-H","75","--high","green","--normal","yellow","--low", "red"] 100 , Run Date "%a %b %_d" "date" 36000 , Run Date "%H:%M" "time" 100 , Run Mail [ ("k","~/.local/share/mail/kitware/INBOX") , ("g","~/.local/share/mail/gmail/INBOX") , ("b","~/.local/share/mail/brewhouse/INBOX") ] "Mail" ] , sepChar = "%" , alignSep = "}{" , template = "%_XMONAD_LOG% }{ %multicpu% | %memory% | %battery% | %Mail% | %KALB% | <fc=#ee9a00>%date%</fc> <fc=skyblue>%time%</fc>" } Thu Mar 15 20:22:04 EDT 2012 Ben Boeckel <mathstuf(a)gmail.com> * add-dynamic-bars-module This adds the X.H.DynamicBars module. It allows per-screen status bars to be easily managed and dynamically handles the number of screens changing.

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udiskie+consolekit and still unauthorized access
by Robert Sawko 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Dear All, I am a fresh user of xmonad. A month ago I installed Arch and decided to give xmonad a try. So far the experience was great and I really don't feel like "coming back" at least when it comes to personal computer. I believe I can already do most of the things I need to do, but now I am trying to make the system a bit more convenient. One of the things on my todo list is automounting file system It has to be said that I got a little bit stuck with that. I would like to use udiskie. I read on Arch websites about permissions and necessity of installing consolekit. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udiskie I've done that and currently my last line of .xinitrc is exec ck-launch-session bash -c "udiskie& dwm" Unfortunately when I run this my log files show only failed to mount device /org/freedesktop/Udisks/devices/sdb1: org.freedesktop.Udisks.Error.PermissionDenied: Not Authorized What am I doing wrong? I have a feeling that I am missing something important. Have you been able to run xmonad together with udiskie. Any hints or assistance will be greatly appreciated. By the way, are there any better alternatives? Robert PS I have also checked that the storage option works for me, although CDs are not automounted still.

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Bug in program depends on number of tiled windows
by John Jumper 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

I am trying to isolate and/or work around a bug in the R statistics software (r-project.org) and the bug seems to depend on how many windows are managed by a tiling layout, regardless of how many windows are in a float layout. I am using R 2.14.2 and Xmonad 0.9.2. Steps to reproduce: $ R > dev.new() ; plot(1, main='plot 1') > dev.new() ; plot(1, main='plot 2') > dev.new() ; plot(1, main='plot 3') > # plot 2 is now blank > # floating any of the plot windows and then resizing the tiled layout causes > # all plot windows to draw correctly > dev.new() ; plot(4, main='plot 4') # now plot 3 is blank Opening terminals does not cause problems, so I do not think the problem can be related to the size of the tiled window, only to the number of tiled plot windows. Any time there are more than two tiled plot windows, at most two will draw. The number of floating plot windows does not matter, which puzzles me. I cannot find any difference using xprop between a floating and tiled window. I would like to file an appropriate bug report with R or create a workaround in my Xmonad configuration that still allows me to tile the windows. Is there an important property that distinguishes tiled and floating windows from the perspective of X, rather than Xmonad? Thank you.

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darcs patch: add-dynamic-bars-module
by Ben Boeckel 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

1 patch for repository http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib: The Xrandr calls requires X11 1.6.0 which also causes issues in other places in the code. I can submit these separately, but since this is not really an official submission, I'll leave them out so they don't distract from the meat of the patch. There is code from adamvo's xmonad.hs (getScreens and multiPP) as well. There are still bugs, but this is to help get some testing and other eyes looking at it. Specifically, not all of the bars work all the time. Currently to solve the issue, I just restart XMonad until they're all there. I'm not sure how to best ensure that things work. For launching the status bars, here are my implementations: myStatusBar :: DynamicStatusBar myStatusBar (S id) = do safeSpawn "xmobar" ["-x", idStr, "-C", "[ Run NamedXPropertyLog \"" ++ prop ++ "\" \"" ++ abbr ++ "\" ]"] spawnPipe $ "xmonadpropwrite " ++ prop where abbr = "_XMONAD_LOG" prop = "_XMONAD_LOG_" ++ idStr idStr = show id myStatusBarCleanup :: DynamicStatusBarCleanup myStatusBarCleanup = safeSpawn "killall" ["xmobar"] For this setup, a few other updates are required: My Xrandr additions to the X11 package: https://github.com/mathstuf/X11/tree/dev/xrandr-support The -C option for xmobar, available here (the next branch there uses X11's Xrandr support instead of the built-in stuff as well): https://github.com/mathstuf/xmobar/tree/dev/add-incremental-config-option My xmobarrc is: Config { font = "xft:Inconsolata:pixelsize=9" , border = NoBorder , borderColor = "black" , bgColor = "black" , fgColor = "grey" , position = TopW L 80 , lowerOnStart = True , commands = [ Run Weather "KALB" ["-t","A: <tempC>°C","-L","15","-H","30","--normal","green","--high","red","--low","lightblue"] 36000 , Run MultiCpu ["-S","true","-t","<autototal>","-L","3","-H","40","--low","green","--normal","yellow","--high","red"] 25 , Run Memory ["-S","true","-t","<usedratio>","-L","20","-H","40","--low","green","--normal","yellow","--high","red"] 25 , Run Battery ["-S","true","-t","<left>","-L","30","-H","75","--high","green","--normal","yellow","--low", "red"] 100 , Run Date "%a %b %_d" "date" 36000 , Run Date "%H:%M" "time" 100 , Run Mail [ ("k","~/.local/share/mail/kitware/INBOX") , ("g","~/.local/share/mail/gmail/INBOX") , ("b","~/.local/share/mail/brewhouse/INBOX") ] "Mail" ] , sepChar = "%" , alignSep = "}{" , template = "%_XMONAD_LOG% }{ %multicpu% | %memory% | %battery% | %Mail% | %KALB% | <fc=#ee9a00>%date%</fc> <fc=skyblue>%time%</fc>" } Wed Mar 14 19:48:26 EDT 2012 Ben Boeckel <mathstuf(a)gmail.com> * add-dynamic-bars-module This adds the X.H.DynamicBars module. It allows per-screen status bars to be easily managed and dynamically handles the number of screens changing. It also adds a flag for enabling Xrandr support which bumps the minimum X11 version to 1.6.0.

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Another data point on delays in focus update.
by Allen S. Rout 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

A month or so ago, I posted about some slow focus updates I was seeing in xmonad. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.xmonad/12074 I noticed another correlation when this is happening, and thought I'd jot it down in this forum, in the hopes that it eventually contributes to a solution. During the period when the focus is slowly traversing a lot of intervening windows, I've found that I peg a CPU running the X server; My Xorg process goes to 99%CPU and stays there for the entirety of the delay. I've been watching the X cpu behavior because I've also noticed that some Firefox browser behavior will similarly peg the Xorg process for seconds at a time, and I was trying to suss that out. I'm kind of free-associating here, but I'm wondering if xmonad's use of X resources is leaving Xorg with a long list of [wumpus] that the X server can't collect or collapse or something, I have no idea what the wumpus might be, but... - Allen S. Rout - Climbing back under his rock

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[patch] simplify xmonad depends in xmonad-contrib
by Jens Petersen 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

Simple one line patch to xmonad-contrib.cabal to simplify the xmonad dependency. Thanks, Jens

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[patch] FindEmptyWorkspace: new sendToEmptyWorkspace
by Jens Petersen 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

Hi, This patch adds a new command "sendToEmptyWorkspace" to XMonad.Actions.FindEmptyWorkspace. It is similar to tagToEmptyWorkspace except it doesn't change the current workspace. Jens

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