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Power Management
by Eyal Erez 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Hi, I'm using xmonad 0.10 with Ubuntu 11.10. I've switched to using SLiM and starting xmonad from my .xsession file. The problem is that I can't get power management to work. Meaning, that when I close my laptop lid, I would like the laptop to suspend, but not if it is plugged in. I would also like to have a command (or key) to suspend and hibernate my laptop. In previous versions I would use the gnome-power-manager. However, that has seemed to disappear from the latest version of Ubuntu. Is there some way to get this back or some other power manager I need to use? Thank you, -- *Eyal Erez <**oneself(a)gmail.com* <oneself(a)gmail.com>*>* There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't.

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NamedScratchpad use case patch
by Nicolas Dudebout 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Hi, This is a patch to make easier use of NamedScratchpad with the DynamicLog pretty printing capabilities. It took me a little while to figure out why the examples given in IndependentScreens were not working when using NamedScratchpad. I knew I had to use namedScratchpadFilterOutWorkspace but it was not obvious how to d'o so. Hopefully this patch helps. Regards, Nicolas

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darcs patch: This patch exposes the root window Event... (and 1 more)
by Jochen Keil 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Hello, attached you'll find two patches which the EventMasks for the root and client windows in XConfig. The intention is to enable people to write hooks (or in general modules) which make use of e.g. keyPress/keyRelease Events. I've written some hooks/modules myself which rely on some non-default Events and it works well so far. Since the patches themselves do not change the default behaviour of xmonad nor cause any harm, I'd like to request that they get applied. :) Many thanks in advance and best wishes, Jochen 2 patches for repository http://code.haskell.org/xmonad: Mon Jan 23 11:07:25 CET 2012 Jochen Keil <jrk(a)sternenrei.ch> * This patch exposes the root window EventMask to XConfig This is helpful for writing Hooks which should act on certain Events as for example keyPress or keyRelease. Mon Jan 23 11:10:26 CET 2012 Jochen Keil <jrk(a)sternenrei.ch> * This patch exposes the client window EventMask to XConfig This is helpful for writing Hooks which should act on certain Events as for example keyPress or keyRelease.

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Logout, Shutdown, Restart.
by Eyal Erez 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Hi, I'm using xmonad 0.10 with Ubuntu 11.10. I've switched to using SLiM and starting xmonad from my .xsession file. Before switching to using .xsession to start xmonad, I used it in conjunction with Gnome, and starting it from .gnomerc. This was slow, and did not enable me to use the latest version of xmonad. However, it had the side benefit of being able to logout gracefully and being able to shutdown/restart directly from within the session without needing to put in a sudo or root password. What I mean by "graceful logout" is that applications that are currently running do not think that the machine died unexpectedly. The most prominent example of that is Firefox and Chrome. If they are running while I hit M-S-q (which runs: "io (exitWith ExitSuccess)"), next time I log in they show me the "I crashed last time, do you want to restore?" message. Currently to shut down my machine, I need to log out, and then shutdown/restart using the login manager, which is annoying. Both this and logout used to work from gnome-do's session management commands. Which I'm guessing is intertwined with Gnome, that I am no longer using. What is the best way to logout, shutdown, and restart from with xmonad? Thanks, -- *Eyal Erez <**oneself(a)gmail.com* <oneself(a)gmail.com>*>* There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't.

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Problem with anti-aliased fonts in Java/Swing applications
by Christophe Garion 22 Jan '12

22 Jan '12

Hello, I have a problem with xmonad under Debian with no particular config (no Config.Gnome etc.): in every Swing application, fonts are not anti-aliased, which is ugly. If I add the -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on option when I start a jvm, fonts are anti-aliased. There is no global property file in Oracle jdk to configure this (notice that the problem is the same for openjdk). I can use the _JAVA_OPTIONS environment variable to set this option, but it adds comments in the console every time I launch a java application, which I do not want. There is no problem with GTK applications. If I start a gnome-session from xmonad, fonts in swing applications are correctly anti-aliased. Is there a way to correct this problem? Sorry if an answer has already been provided, but I did not find any searching the web and Xmonad website. Thanks in advance, Christophe -- Christophe Garion ISAE/DMIA - SUPAERO/IN garion(a)isae.fr 10 avenue Edouard Belin Tél : (33)5 61 33 80 57 BP 54032 Fax : (33)5 61 33 83 45 31055 Toulouse Cedex 4

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testing xmonad-0.10 for Fedora 16
by Jens Petersen 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Hi, I just wanted to give Fedora users a headsup that xmonad-0.10 is available in the F16 updates-testing repository. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-0158/xmonad-0.10 It has been working well for me now for a while and as you know there are a lot of cool new features and improvements in 0.10, so if you want to help test it before the packages go stable that would be helpful. If I don't hear of any problems I plan to push the packages to stable updates early next week. Thank you very much for 0.10! Jens

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Going Gnomeless (and Unityless on Oneiric)
by Jacek Generowicz 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Greetings, I'm returning to Linux after almost a decade away, and finally being able to fully XMonadise my environment is a great (though time-consuming) joy: The efficency of a finely tuned and customized, all-encompassing XMonad setup is quite awesome. I apologize if I get some of the current Linux terms long, in what follows. I'm on Ubuntu Oneiric and have been running XMonad under Unity (which seems to be partially built on Gnome?) I see a way forward for getting rid of all Gnome or Unity features and replacing them with some combination of XMonad, xmobar, dzen, conky etc., except for two: - Gnome seems to do a fairly decent job of automatically detecting and managing wireless networks. How would I go about this without Gnome's assistance? Is there something that can be plugged into XMonad which will show me available networks, and allow me to choose, connect and disconnect (preferably without having to touch the mouse, but also without having to type magic incantations involving wpa_supplicant, iwconfig etc.) ? - What's the quickest way of accessing system settings. I've been trying to run without the unity panel and launcher, but I've had to respawn them just to get access to system setting. Thank you.

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Issue 492 in xmonad: GTK windows do not repaint when switching from an Aqua application to X
by codesite-noreply＠google.com 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 492 by cubra...(a)gmail.com: GTK windows do not repaint when switching from an Aqua application to X http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=492 What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. press Cmd-Shift-A to get out of X root window and then Alt-Tab to switch to an Aqua application 2. press Alt-Tab to switch back to X 3. gnome-terminal and other GTK applications (installed through MacPorts) do not repaint their windows unless I switch to another workspace and back. Other X apps like xterm repaint fine. What is the expected output? What do you see instead? All running windows should repaint What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? xmonad 0.9.1 on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

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Re: [xmonad] renameWorkspace and autoComplete
by Jacek Generowicz 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

At Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:19:26 +0100, Matthias Hörmann wrote: > You don't have to use the same XPConfig for all of them. Ahem, yes, that's rather obvious, now that you mention it. Thank you. > You could use one with autocomplete for selecting and one without > for creating new workspaces, couldn't you? Yes, tried it, it works. But it does eat up one extra modifier on my workspace switching key (and I was planning to use it for something else), so I would still be interested in suggestions on how to get the autocomplete delay to allow specifying new names.

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renameWorkspace and autoComplete
by Jacek Generowicz 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Hello, I am using DynamicWorkspaces and have switched on autoComplete. Consequently, when I start working on some new 'thing' I can quickly create a new workspace for it, and switching between arbitrary named workspaces is very quick: Mod-<my-dynamic-workspace-key> <first-letter-of-workspace-name> is all it takes, because autocomplete selects the namespace as soon as only one matching completion remains (and my namespaces have unique initials, to start with). Switching to a namespace which does not exist, creates that namespace. And here is where autocomplete gets in the way: if I want to create a namespace with an initial that already exists, autoComplete will select the existing namespace without giving me the opportunity to give a new name. The autoComplete config member is a Maybe Int: 'Nothing' means do not autocomplete; 'Just us' means wait for 'us' microseconds before autocompleting. I thought that increasing this delay slightly would give me the opportunity to type the name of a new namespace that I want to create. Not so: it just waits, but then picks the originally chosen one anyway. Any hints on how to get autoComplete and selectWorkspace to allow creation of new namespaces with names with initials which are shared by other already-existing namespaces? Thanks.

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