Re: [xmonad] automatically generating template xmonad.hs if it doesn't exist

On 2008.01.04 18:39:22 -0500, David Roundy scribbled 0.7K characters:

On Jan 4, 2008 5:18 PM, wrote:

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# Does it *have* to be mod1Mask? It makes more sense to steal Alt than Ctrl, I'll grant, but stealing the useless Windows is even better since even fewer apps use that; I notice that there are at least 4 or 5 configs on the wiki which change mod1Mask to mod4Mask.

As pointed out, it really does. Most users will be disappointed when they find that they are unable to exit a new window manager without either killing it externally or killing X windows itself.

I would, however, suggest considering a reduction in the number of default key bindings. But then again, key bindings do seem to be the one feature of any application that very few users can agree on.

David

Which ones would you suggest? I can think of some possibilities: , ((modMask, xK_p ), spawn "exe=`dmenu_path | dmenu` && eval \"exec $exe\"") -- %! Launch dmenu , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_p ), spawn "gmrun") -- %! Launch gmrun Why should we include bindings by default for these two launchers - off the top of my head, I know of ShellPrompt in XMC, and I'm sure I could find more if I looked (don't the status bars like Dzen or Xmobar incorporate similar functionality?). The selection strikes me as arbitrary and outdated, as well as kind of odd: should the default bindings have such dependencies? , ((modMask, xK_n ), refresh) -- %! Resize viewed windows to the correct size This would be more sensible to bind to something like 'next' (which I guess would be focusDown?); you might say it's a duplicate, but there already are 2 bindings to focusDown. And how often does one need to manually refresh? We recommend using a good terminal emulator like urxvt, so that's that, and I can't think of any others that'd benefit. Does anyone actually use this often? Then it might be better to add refresh to a hook. -- toggle the status bar gap , ((modMask , xK_b ), modifyGap (λi n → let x = (XMonad.defaultGaps conf ++ repeat (0,0,0,0)) !! i in if n == x then (0,\ 0,0,0) else x)) -- %! Toggle the status bar gap I'm not too sure about this one. If you're using an uncustomized totally standard XMonad, are you also going to be using a status bar? More to the point, would you be using a statusbar *and* also be wanting to toggle on/off the status bar? (Which is what this does if I understand it.) -- gwern GSM Submarine E. 510 ddnp building y friends RDI JCET