* On Saturday, June 26 2010, Nathan Huesken wrote:

Hi,

I asked the question a while ago, it never worked for me but I stopped worring because I started using pidgin instead of skype ...

The question is how to get the IM layout to accept the skype buddy list. I finally tried this:

withIM (1%7) skype (LG.Grid False) where skype = Title "<username> - Skype™ (Beta)"

where I actually copied the string "<username> - Skype™ (Beta)" from the xprop output.

But it does not work :(. What could this be? Maybe the "TM" symbol is recognized incorrectly?

Can I somehow change this, so it is recognized when the title only contains my <username>?

Hello Nathan, You can't match on a prefix because IM uses "XMonad.Util.WindowProperties" (instead of a function, because you need to be able to read/show functions to serialize xmonad state across restarts). You'd have to add another constructor to Property, and a corresponding case for propertyToQuery. Alternatively, the IM layout could be changed to respond to a message sent using the ManageHook (though things may be tricky for targeting the right IM layout modifier if you have multiple in a single layout). But perhaps you try xmonad from darcs which has this fix for encoding: http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=302. If the patch mentioned in #2 for the X11 binding is applied, things will be broken again, however. -- Adam