On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:57:56PM +0000, Arnaud Bailly wrote:

main = xmonad gnomeConfig { manageHook = manageDocks <+> manageHook defaultConfig ,layoutHook = avoidStruts $ layoutHook defaultConfig gnomeConfig already includes manageDocks/avoidStruts. No need for the above two lines.

I still do not have workspace switching, but power management is OK. That sounds fishy -- other xmonad key bindings work?

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Arnaud Bailly wrote:

I have azerty keyboard where numbers are accessed with shift key on.

That sounds like the issue, you'll probably have to futz around with xev, xkeycaps, and the xkb tools to get things straightened out

But I tried activating numpad and it does not work either.

The numpad keys and normal numbers are different keypresses, then are mangled by your keyboard mapping, and then are mapped onto different keysyms (which is what xmonad uses as an xlib program). An easy way out would be to try defining the bindings again manually, only this time using "xK_KP_1" instead of "xK_1" so that the keypad is used. -- Fred

Devin Mullins writes:

As an example of this:

import XMonad import qualified XMonad.StackSet as W import XMonad.Config.Gnome import XMonad.Util.EZConfig (additionalKeys)

main = xmonad $ gnomeConfig { -- NOTE the extra $ sign modMask = mod4Mask } `additionalKeys` -- copied-ish from XMonad/Config.hs [((m .|. mod4Mask, k), windows $ f i) | (i, k) <- zip (workspaces gnomeConfig) [xK_KP_1 .. xK_KP_9] , (f, m) <- [(W.greedyView, 0), (W.shift, shiftMask)]]

Let me translate: - m .|. is modifier of keys - k is keysym (?) - windows is a function that activate some window - f is activation mode (?) - i is window number extracted from gnome The given setting does not work. On my keyboard, 1 is over '&', so maybe I could try xK_K_AMP (or something similar) ?

Given that you're holding shift, I'm surprise it doesn't zap the window to the other workspace. I guess xev might help. Oh, you crazy kids and your keyboard layouts.

Hmmm. I am getting a bit old for a kid, given I have kids myself. And actually, all french, belgian, swiss, french canadian and quite a bunch of african countries keyboards have such a layout, which makes for approximatively a couple hundred million people ;-) Best regards and thanks again for helping, Arnaud

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[((m .|. mod4Mask, k), windows $ f i) | (i, k) <- zip (workspaces gnomeConfig) [xK_KP_1 .. xK_KP_9] , (f, m) <- [(W.greedyView, 0), (W.shift, shiftMask)]]

Corrections:

- m .|. is modifier of keys m is a modifier bitmask -- 0 means nothing pressed, shiftMask means shift pressed. m .|. n is the combination of two modmasks -- in this case m .|. mod4Mask means "mod4 and m held down". Here, mod4 corresponds to W.greedyView, mod4-shift corresponds to W.shift.

- k is keysym (?) Yes. See: ~$ ghci GHCi, version 6.8.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package base ... linking ... done. Prelude> import XMonad Prelude XMonad> :i xK_KP_1 xK_KP_1 :: KeySym -- Defined in Graphics.X11.Types If you search the internets, you'll find documentation for the Types module, including a list of all the KeySyms. (Assuming it's up to date.)

- windows is a function that activate some window - f is activation mode (?) windows is a bit of a magical function. It converts a pure StackSet mutator into an X action. In other words, f is all the business logic that says "move this window here" and so on, and windows is the dirty greasy implementation that actually interacts with X.

In this case, f is either W.greedyView or W.shift. See StackSet documentation or source code for info.

- i is window number extracted from gnome i is the window number extracted from xlib. See `xprop`, for example.

The given setting does not work. On my keyboard, 1 is over '&', so maybe I could try xK_K_AMP (or something similar) ? What Brandon said.

Arnaud Bailly writes:

I have azerty keyboard where numbers are accessed with shift key on. But I tried activating numpad and it does not work either.

See examples for french keyboards in http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive for example mine http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive/TeXitoi%27s_xmonad.hs -- Guillaume Pinot http://www.irccyn.ec-nantes.fr/~pinot/ ``Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.'' -- Donald E. Knuth, the TeXbook () ASCII ribbon campaign -- Against HTML e-mail /\ http://www.asciiribbon.org -- Against proprietary attachments

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:02:59AM +0200, TeXitoi wrote:

See examples for french keyboards in http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive for example mine http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive/TeXitoi%27s_xmonad.hs

I went ahead and converted the azerty-related portion of that into xmonad-contrib as XMonad.Config.Azerty. Is that useful to any body?

On 2008 Sep 22, at 18:19, Arnaud Bailly wrote:

Devin Mullins writes:

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On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:57:56PM +0000, Arnaud Bailly wrote:

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I still do not have workspace switching, but power management is OK. That sounds fishy -- other xmonad key bindings work?

Yes. At least mod + shift + enter, mod + p, mod + tab. mod+q does not work but this seems to be a path problem.

I have azerty keyboard where numbers are accessed with shift key on. But I tried activating numpad and it does not work either.

Still more context (sorry, our mail server bit the dust over the weekend). The problem with the keypad is almost certainly that you need to strip out the modifier that represents the numlock key (which is "nonstandard" from the point of view of X11, which was developed on and for workstations that didn't use a numlock key --- that came in only with PCs). -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH