Hi, I'm putting together some small x applications I find useful to run with xmonad. The idea *was* to make some nice small Haskell examples of X applications, but I don't think I'm really so willing to rewrite them in a nice style... I prefer invest some time in learning _new_ cool Haskell stuff...;-) Still I find them useful and I'm going to share them. Since one requires the darcs version of X11-Extras if I'll release them I'll do after xmonad-0.3. You can grab them here: darcs get http://gorgias.mine.nu/repos/xmonad-utils/ What's inside: 1. hslock: a CHaskell rewrite of slock/alock whatever. To lock the screen.[1] 2. hxsel: a CHaskell rewrite of sselp[2]. It returns the string currently in the X selection. I use it for opening urls, looking up words in the dictionary: I select a word with the mouse and then I bind a xmonad key to execute a small bash script like: #!/bin/sh URL=`hxsel` /usr/lib/firefox/mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox "openurl(${URL},new-tab)" 3. hmanage: to toggle override_redirect. Makes a window unmanaged. The window id you need can be retrieved with xwininfo. [1] http://www.suckless.org/download/slock-0.6.tar.gz [2] http://www.suckless.org/download/sselp-0.1.tar.gz Now that I have reimplemented dmenu, slock and sselp only lsw and swarp are left...;-) andrea ps: I will be off line till Sunday, starting from tonight (~22.00 UTC).