I am using the XMonad.Actions.Minimize and XMonad.Layout.Minimize modules to minimize my windows, but I don’t want to interact with them while cycling (Mod + Tab). I was told to use XMonad.Layout.BoringWindows, but I haven’t gotten it to work.

Could someone guide me?

Thank you in advance.

Hello! In my current xmonad setup, windows don't have borders, with the exception of a few stubborn programs, firefox in particular (After a lot of fiddling in firefox css I've figured out that this is in fact not firefox's fault), and many others. From what I can tell, this border is there for resizing the window, which works when the window is floating. I don't care about resizing stuff, I just want the border to be gone.

However I'm at a complete loss at what to do about it. I have removed borders in every possible way I have heard of. Anyone else have this annoying grey border? Any ideas?

Here are some lines from my config, and a screenshot of the border. Thanks in advance for any hints!

import XMonad.Layout.NoBorders

[...]

myBorderWidth = 0

[...]

myManageHook = composeAll
    [ className =? "firefox"        --> hasBorder False
    , isFullscreen                  --> doFullFloat --hide xmobar
    , resource  =? "desktop_window" --> doIgnore
    , resource  =? "kdesktop"       --> doIgnore ]

[...]

myLayout = smartBorders $ avoidStruts tiled ||| avoidStruts (Mirror tiled) ||| avoidStruts Full ||| Full
  where
     -- default tiling algorithm partitions the screen into two panes
     tiled   = spacingRaw True (Border 0 5 5 5) True (Border 5 5 5 5) True $ Tall nmaster delta ratio
     -- The default number of windows in the master pane
     nmaster = 1
     -- Default proportion of screen occupied by master pane
     ratio   = 1/2
     -- Percent of screen to increment by when resizing panes
     delta   = 3/100

https://preview.redd.it/vth6cu9rqxee1.png?width=318&format=png&auto=webp&s=62dc47513ae64be10d8c3d2b0ce2a35d44ee2852

EDIT: Since some comments fairly pointed out that the borderwidth must be passed to the main function, I'm sharing my main function as well. I even set the border color to green to make sure it was set to zero - it is. I'm starting to think this is a firefox problem again - though then I would expect everyone to have this issue.

main = do
--    initCapturing
    xmproc <- spawnPipe "xfce4-panel -d"
    xmonad . ewmh $ docks defaults


-- A structure containing your configuration settings, overriding
-- fields in the default config. Any you don't override, will
-- use the defaults defined in xmonad/XMonad/Config.hs
--
-- No need to modify this.
--
defaults = def {
      -- simple stuff
        terminal           = myTerminal,
        focusFollowsMouse  = myFocusFollowsMouse,
        clickJustFocuses   = myClickJustFocuses,
        borderWidth        = myBorderWidth,
        modMask            = myModMask,
        workspaces         = myWorkspaces,
        normalBorderColor  = myNormalBorderColor,
        focusedBorderColor = myFocusedBorderColor,

      -- key bindings
        keys               = myKeys,
        mouseBindings      = myMouseBindings,

      -- hooks, layouts
        layoutHook         = myLayout,
        manageHook         = myManageHook,
        handleEventHook    = myEventHook,
        logHook            = myLogHook,
        startupHook        = myStartupHook
    }

Has anyone achieved that?

I've never used XMonad but I'm thinking about doing the jump from Niri (Wayland isn't the big thing to me so I will make the change to Xorg). XMonad is the WM I've liked the most so far (talking from rices I've seen) because of it being, from my point of view, the most customizable one. The thing is, I've got so used to scrolling WM/compositores that now it's an important feature for me.

I know that XMonad isn't scrollable (at least by default), but can it be done by properly editing the configuration file?

I'm using RustDesk in XMonad and I'm encountering an issue where RustDesk is capturing a specific key binding that I've set up in XMonad.

In my XMonad configuration, I have the following key binding:

, ((modm .|. mod1Mask .|. controlMask, xK\_e), raise (title =? "Church of Emacs"))

However, RustDesk seems to be intercepting this key combination (Control-Alt-Super-E) before XMonad can handle it.

Any ideas what I can try?;)

Hi,

I am having trouble getting DynamicIcons to work with xmobar. Without dynamic icons the bar works fine. But when it's active, the current workspsace highlighting does not update as soon as dynamic icons can find a match for an open window in its list it matches against. Same goes for ppVisible and ppHidden.

The bar is still updating, because when I open another window that matches in the list of dynamic icons, two icons are shown for that workspaces in xmobar as it should be.

Maybe someone can help me figure this out. My guess is that DynamicIcons somehow confuses xmobar and it can not fully interpret whats going on.

Heres my xmonad.hs https://pastebin.com/BcSJa5GL For troubleshooting and figuring out whats going on I tuned it down so that only aracritty matches for dynamic icons for now.

and xmobarrc https://pastebin.com/KHXVVKKY

Which is the best way to add idle inhibition while watching youtube on xmonad? my screen dims on 10 minutes even with media playing.

I have a dual monitor setup, and in the left monitor I'd like to have the master pane on the right, while in the right monitor have the master pane on the left. So that the master panes are next to each other (because the monitors are next to each other), and the non-master windows are all on the outside - far left and far right.

I thought Mirror might do it, but that's more of a rotate. I want more of a FlipX. If that existed, my layout would be:

tile ||| FlipX tile ||| Mirror tile ||| Mirror (FlipX tile) ||| Full

Does something like this exist already?

This seems like it should be possible and relatively straightforward, but I'm pretty new to Haskell and I'm not very familiar with the X11 library.

Or if there is a simpler way to achieve shadows only on floats I am all ears.

I'm trying to remap my workspace keybindings to do some feh background magic, but I've hit a wall in trying to figure out how to swap workspaces by name or number.

They all seem to require a directionid (cyclews, workspaceactions, etc).

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks!!

Hi

II have installed XMonad window manager using cabal in user mode. I am able to load XMonad using command "startx ./.cabal/bin/xmonad". But on trying

"muraj1@void-live ~]$ .cabal/bin/xmonad --recompile" I get the following :-

[muraj1@void-live ~]$ .cabal/bin/xmonad --recompile

XMonad will not use build script, because "/home/muraj1/.xmonad/build" is not executable.

Suggested resolution to use it: chmod u+x "/home/muraj1/.xmonad/build"

XMonad will use ghc to recompile, because none of "/home/muraj1/.xmonad/build", "/home/muraj1/.xmonad/stack.yaml", "/home/muraj1/.xmonad/flake.nix", "/home/muraj1/.xmonad/default.nix" exist.

XMonad recompiling (forced).

Errors detected while compiling xmonad config: /home/muraj1/.xmonad/xmonad.hs

$ ghc --make xmonad.hs -i -ilib -fforce-recomp -main-is main -v0 -outputdir /home/muraj1/.xmonad/build-x86_64-linux -o /home/muraj1/.xmonad/xmonad-x86_64-linux

xmonad.hs:9:1: error:

Could not load module ‘XMonad’

It is a member of the hidden package ‘xmonad-0.18.0’.

You can run ‘:set -package xmonad’ to expose it.

(Note: this unloads all the modules in the current scope.)

Use -v (or `:set -v` in ghci) to see a list of the files searched for.

|

9 | import XMonad

| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

xmonad.hs:12:1: error:

Could not load module ‘XMonad.StackSet’

It is a member of the hidden package ‘xmonad-0.18.0’.

You can run ‘:set -package xmonad’ to expose it.

(Note: this unloads all the modules in the current scope.)

Use -v (or `:set -v` in ghci) to see a list of the files searched for.

|

12 | import qualified XMonad.StackSet as W

| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Please check the file for errors.

xmonad: xmessage: executeFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

I tried the ghci command line and able to load XMonad, which works though.

muraj1@void-live Desktop]$ ghci

Loaded package environment from /home/muraj1/.ghc/x86_64-linux-9.0.2/environments/default

GHCi, version 9.0.2: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help

ghci> import XMonad

<no location info>: error:

Could not load module ‘XMonad’

It is a member of the hidden package ‘xmonad-0.18.0’.

You can run ‘:set -package xmonad’ to expose it.

(Note: this unloads all the modules in the current scope.)

ghci> :set -package xmonad

package flags have changed, resetting and loading new packages...

ghci> import XMonad

ghci>

May I have some help on how to recompile xmonad.hs?

here's my config:

import XMonad

import XMonad.Hooks.ManageHelpers (doFullFloat,isFullscreen)

import XMonad.Hooks.EwmhDesktops

import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog

import XMonad.Hooks.StatusBar

import XMonad.Hooks.StatusBar.PP

import XMonad.Hooks.InsertPosition

import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks

import XMonad.Layout.Fullscreen

import XMonad.Util.Loggers

import XMonad.Util.Run

import XMonad.Util.SpawnOnce (spawnOnce)

import XMonad.Util.EZConfig

import XMonad.Prompt

import XMonad.Prompt.Shell

import XMonad.Prompt.FuzzyMatch (fuzzyMatch)

import XMonad.Actions.ToggleFullFloat (toggleFullFloat)

import XMonad.Layout.Gaps

import XMonad.Layout.Spacing

import XMonad.Layout.LayoutModifier

import XMonad.Layout.CenterMainFluid

import XMonad.Layout.DwmStyle

import XMonad.Layout.ThreeColumns (ThreeCol(ThreeColMid))

import XMonad.Layout.Reflect (reflectHoriz)

import XMonad.Layout.MultiToggle

import XMonad.Layout.MultiToggle.Instances

import XMonad.Layout.ToggleLayouts hiding (Toggle)

import qualified XMonad.Layout.MultiToggle as MT (Toggle(..))

import qualified XMonad.StackSet as W

import Control.Monad

import Data.Maybe

import Data.List

import XMonad.Layout.NoBorders (noBorders)

main :: IO ()

main = do

xmonad

. ewmhFullscreen

. ewmh

. withEasySB (statusBarProp "xmobar" (pure myXmobarPP)) defToggleStrutsKey

$ myconfig

setFullscreenSupported :: X ()

setFullscreenSupported = addSupported ["_NET_WM_STATE", "_NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN"]

addSupported :: [String] -> X ()

addSupported props = withDisplay $ \dpy -> do

r <- asks theRoot

a <- getAtom "_NET_SUPPORTED"

newSupportedList <- mapM (fmap fromIntegral . getAtom) props

io $ do

supportedList <- join . maybeToList <$> getWindowProperty32 dpy a r

changeProperty32 dpy r a aTOM propModeReplace (nub $ newSupportedList ++ supportedList)

myManageHook :: ManageHook

myManageHook = manageDocks <+> composeAll

[ insertPosition Below Newer

, isFullscreen --> doFullFloat

, className =? "firefox" --> viewShift "www"

, className =? "Google-chrome" --> viewShift "www"

, className =? "kitty" --> viewShift "dev"

, className =? "discord" --> viewShift "chat"

, className =? "mpv" --> viewShift "vid"

, className =? "vlc" --> viewShift "vid"

, className =? "Pcmanfm" --> viewShift "sys"

, className =? "Virt-manager" --> viewShift "qemu"

, className =? "libreoffice-startcenter" --> viewShift "doc"

, className =? "Spotify" --> viewShift "mus"

, className =? "Ryujinx" --> viewShift "game"

]

where viewShift = doF . liftM2 (.) W.greedyView W.shift

myconfig = def

{ modMask = mod4Mask

, manageHook = myManageHook

, workspaces = myWorkspaces

, layoutHook = myLayout

, startupHook = myStartupHook

}

\additionalKeysP``

[ ("M-<Return>", spawn "kitty")

, ("M-a", spawn "alacritty")

, ("M-r", spawn "xmonad --restart")

, ("M-w", kill)

, ("<XF86MonBrightnessUp>", spawn "light -A 5")

, ("<XF86MonBrightnessDown>", spawn "light -U 5")

, ("<XF86AudioMute>", spawn "pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ toggle")

, ("<XF86AudioRaiseVolume>", spawn "pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +5%")

, ("<XF86AudioLowerVolume>", spawn "pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ -5%")

, ("<XF86AudioPlay>", spawn "playerctl play-pause")

, ("M1-p", spawn "flameshot full -p ~/Pictures/Screenshots")

, ("M-<Space>", shellPrompt myPromptConfig )

, ("M-p", spawn "~/scripts/powermenu.sh")

]

myStartupHook :: X ()

myStartupHook = do

setFullscreenSupported

spawnOnce "picom"

spawnOnce "/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &"

spawnOnce "feh --bg-fill ~/Pictures/wallpapers/dsw.png"

spawnOnce "mpd"

spawnOnce "light -S 5"

spawnOnce "nm-applet"

spawnOnce "xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr"

myPromptConfig = def

{

position = Top

, bgColor = "#000000"

, promptBorderWidth = 1

, searchPredicate = isPrefixOf

, defaultText = ""

, alwaysHighlight = True

, height = 27

, font = "xft:DejaVu Sans-10"

}

myXmobarPP :: PP

myXmobarPP = def

{ ppSep = white " : "

, ppTitle = \(ws : l : _ : _ ) -> []

, ppLayout = white

, ppCurrent = white . wrap "[" "]"

, ppOrder = \[ws, l, _, wins] -> [ws]

, ppHiddenNoWindows = lowWhite . wrap " " ""

, ppExtras = [logTitles formatFocused formatUnfocused]

}

where

formatFocused = wrap (white "[") (white "]") . magenta . ppWindow

formatUnfocused = wrap (lowWhite "[") (lowWhite "]") . blue . ppWindow

-- | Windows should have *some* title, which should not not exceed a

-- sane length.

ppWindow :: String -> String

ppWindow = xmobarRaw . (\w -> if null w then "untitled" else w) . shorten 30

blue, lowWhite, magenta, red, white, yellow :: String -> String

magenta = xmobarColor "#cba6f7" ""

pink = xmobarColor "#f5c2e7" ""

green = xmobarColor "#a6e3a1" ""

orange = xmobarColor "#f9e2af" ""

blue = xmobarColor "#89b4fa" ""

white = xmobarColor "#f8f8f2" ""

yellow = xmobarColor "#f1fa8c" ""

red = xmobarColor "#f38ba8" ""

lowWhite = xmobarColor "#bbbbbb" ""

myWorkspaces = ["www", "dev", "sys", "doc", "qemu", "chat", "mus", "vid", "game"]

myLayout = Tall 1 (3/100) (1/2)

Also ty to the good people of this group for helping me when I was learning-on-the-fly. :)

My browser toggles in and out of the scratchpad with mod-', gimp with mod-g, mod-= to maximize/unmaximize, mod+right snap move right, left, up, down, etc. mod+print for screenshot, various little things.

I have 9 terminals spawning by default with composited truecolor alacritty windows spawning fish and direnv under nixos. My beautiful monster. I modeled it after what I had going for my i3 config which I lost. It's in many ways improved upon, but in some ways I'm still catching up to what I had. I can't wait to see what this eventually becomes. I'm in love with XMonad at this point- I'll take all the black eyes it can dish out to make this relationship work! :)

Nixos is also very abusive. It's an abusive 3way with me as the punching bag... But the love is real. When it's good... It's just so damn good. :)

The wallpaper is a hacked together abstract concoction I made testing out various gimp brushes.

https://preview.redd.it/6qzxzr28f52e1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=6a93725ec71b0ed7a4cb9ff9dcf0d794d29c762b

Here's my config: https://pastebin.com/ds9Qdbc3

Hi! I just started trying to get the hang of xmonad today; What I'm trying to do is get my browser chromium-browser to appear and disappear.

I had my i3 setup to have 9 terminals that opened automatically on 3 workspaces, and open a browser in the background.

I'd then use for_window to make it float, and bindsym to send it to the scratchpad.

Like a reverse popup terminal, basically. 🤭

It was pretty easy to do, but I'm struggling here.

I was already pretty familiar with Haskell if that helps. 😅

Also, I'm looking to remap every single default key binding as I do with every window manager and I'm having trouble finding the right docs.

Any help would be much appreciated- Ty!! 💕

Edit: After lots of blood, sweat and tears, here's my current xmonad config. I've made something beautiful.

TODO: Make the spawning alacritty windows conditional so they don't spawn on xmonad --restart.

I've added some basic usability keybindings as well m= maximize, m-right m-left snap move, etc. m-f float window, gimp and google chrome as popup browsers. It's f***ing beautiful. This is distractingly elegent. :)

Code: https://pastebin.com/ds9Qdbc3

Screenshot: https://ibb.co/hR6pVsp

I'm an xmonad user and everytime my system starts, it starts by gnome-keyring prompting me for a password.

Now, the dialog opens and looks normal, and it usually prompts before xmonad has started up. But the moment xmonad does start up, it makes the window look like this.

The dialog starts up normally, the buttons etc. are not overlapping with the input area. But there's something about the way the window is redrawn after xmonad starts up that makes the buttons overlap with the input area.

PS:

• I cannot take a screenshot normally while this prompt is open: it doesn't let any of xmonad's keybindings work (screenshot etc.).
• I don't use any DE, just lightdm + xmonad.
• xmonad version 0.17.2
• I am using window borders.

Sequence of events:

1. Lightdm, I input my username and password.
2. gnome-keyring prompt appears before xmonad starts up. This prompt looks normal: the buttons don't overlap with the text input. This is expected.
3. xmonad fires up, and the buttons overlap with the text input field (screenshot). The buttons overlapping with the text input is not specific to the gnome-keyring prompt. This seems to be an issue with xmonad, and is unexpected.

Some time ago I implemented a feature into my XMonad configuration that I really like, so I thought I'd tell you about it.

If you have multiple monitors and like to keep it dark around you, you probably dislike the bright light the other monitors give when they are not even in use (empty workspaces, that is).

Here's how I fixed that (note that this uses `redshift`, and restore/maintain the current level using a cache file): link to paste.

I'm running into a strange issue with Xmonad at work. We use Checkpoint VPN, which involves installing a "Mobile Access Portal Agent" and "SNX" – basically two shell scripts that set up a Firefox extension and the VPN client. You then log in via SSO, and the agent kicks off the SNX VPN.

It's not my favorite setup, but it's what we have currently at work. The problem is, in Xmonad, Firefox seems to "forget" that it already has this extension installed. Every time I log in, I have to re-run the installation script. I've also noticed some other odd behavior, like Slack forgetting my login.

Strangely, this doesn't happen in Plasma. And even if I switch back and forth between Xmonad and Plasma, the same Firefox profile remembers the extension in Plasma but not in Xmonad.

Has anyone else encountered anything like this? Any ideas on what might be causing this or how to troubleshoot it?

Thanks in advance for any help!

I was wondering what the 'correct' way of building XMonad using cabal was. The way I did it was,

1. mkdir xmonad (in .config)
2. cd xmonad
3. cabal init -> named executable my-xmonad
4. added xmonad, xmonad-contrib to my-xmonad.cabal's build-depends
5. cabal configure
6. cabal build
7. cabal install

This got me a my-xmonad executable, and running my-xmonad --recompile (using the cabal build script from xmonad-contrib), gave me an xmonad-ARCH file which I put in my .xinitrc So far, so good. But, when I run my-xmonad --restart(using a keybind), nothing happens. Everytime I change something, I need to logout and login again for changes to show up, which is annoying.

Hi

I have for some time been trying to find the cause of a freeze, which can only be resolved with a reset.

I am running Xmonad and Xmobar on a pure Arch install. I also have other desktop Tiling Window Manager environments that do not have this problem.

In fact, I have even tried other peripherals to eliminate the problem, such as the keyboard and trackballs but I think I have now narrowed it down.

When I have a browser open on a page and an my PC is polling for an update, which I konw becuae I have an indicator in Xmobar the PC freezes, as does the mouse pointer. After a reboot I run the update and the freeze happens when there is a Haskell update.

I’ve looked at the Arch crash logs, but nothing to even say that there has been a crash by the OS or Kernel. No errors come up during the freeze either.

Now this could be a coincendence but can anyone give an suggestions at this stage which I would appreciate in advance.

I'm trying to make the following:
I have shortcuts to change the volume, if I press one, it will go from x% to either (x+5)% or (x-5)%, and this change is reflected on the status bar.

The problem:
I want this change to be immediate (sending a signal), but it's not; sometimes It feels immediate, others I can notice an obvious delay (as if it's in a loop that refreshes according to a certain interval of time).

• I tried to use a pipe (Run PipeReader "/tmp/vol_pipe") along with my volume changing command on XMobar configuration, but it didn't work.
• I tried using the Alsa plugin, but it's the same thing
• I tried looking for the dbus part in XMobar's documentation, but it's bad documented (and looking at the source code that the documentation points to, it doesn't look like it has what I want).

Is it impossible to do it in XMobar?

Hello,

I noticed that after running xmonad --restart so that modifications to my configuration are taken into account, xmobar becomes visible when YouTube videos are in fullscreen (in firefox). I could only revert to the normal behaviour by killing and relogging in.

Is this expected or am I doing something wrong ?

Here's the entire configuration file.

Here's a snippet of the relevant configuration:

xmobarOf :: ScreenId -> IO StatusBarConfig
xmobarOf 0 = pure $ statusBarProp "xmobar -x 0 ~/.config/xmobar/xmobarrc" (pure myPrettyPrinter)
xmobarOf 1 = pure $ statusBarProp "xmobar -x 1 ~/.config/xmobar/xmobarrc" (pure myPrettyPrinter)
xmobarOf _ = mempty

main = xmonad
      . ewmhFullscreen . ewmh
      . dynamicEasySBs xmobarOf
      $ xmonadConfig

Thanks :)

Hello,

TL;DR: Is there a way that I could, in a shell script, invoke xmonad in such a way that it hides a specific scratch pad ?

I recently started scripting a shell script that can fuzzy search a password entry and select it (with the password-store project).

I managed to set up xmonad to have a NamedScratchPad of this script so that I can toggle this script, search away and get my password. The issue is that I mustn't close this NamedScratchPad (otherwise the clipboard will be cleared). I have no issue to keep the scratch pad running, however it would be nice for it to toggle itself away when the password has been copied.

Thank you :)

I've been looking at switching to xmonad from i3, and have created a small repo with xmonadrc and xmobar as subfolders.

On my system (archlinux) I can cabal install xmonad and it builds just fine.

In my flake, I kept getting dependency issues, until this point and I can't get past it:

~/projects/xmonad/xmonadrc > cabal build                                   (--)(trunk)
Warning: Parsing the index cache failed (Data.Binary.Get.runGet at position
16: Non-matching structured hashes: d81bdd513f41b5d7ee4cd28455adadbe;
expected: f46da61e7afa58a5e8fd1d2b6fb79899). Trying to regenerate the index
cache...
Resolving dependencies...
Build profile: -w ghc-9.8.2 -O1
In order, the following will be built (use -v for more details):
 - X11-xft-0.3.4 (lib) (requires build)
 - xmonad-contrib-0.18.0 (lib) (requires build)
 - xmonadrc-0.1.0.0 (lib) (first run)
 - xmonadrc-0.1.0.0 (exe:xmonadrc) (first run)
Starting     X11-xft-0.3.4 (lib)
Building     X11-xft-0.3.4 (lib)

Failed to build X11-xft-0.3.4.
Build log (
/home/gideon/.cabal/logs/ghc-9.8.2/X11-xft-0.3.4-1b25c7f77ecc162263f4b25f121bc46e362d5568bfa986b8ff92d7810efe5cb7.log
):
Configuring library for X11-xft-0.3.4..
Preprocessing library for X11-xft-0.3.4..
running dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xft_hsc_make failed (exit code 127)
rsp file was: "dist/build/Graphics/X11/hsc2hscall3771929-3.rsp"
output file:"dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xft.hs"
command was: dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xft_hsc_make  >dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xft.hs
error: dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xft_hsc_make: error while loading shared libraries: libfontconfig.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Error: cabal: Failed to build X11-xft-0.3.4 (which is required by exe:xmonadrc
from xmonadrc-0.1.0.0). See the build log above for details.

My flake does contain a load of libraries as native build inputs (using flake-parts and haskell-flake):

    perSystem = { pkgs, config, ... }: {
      haskellProjects.default = {
        basePackages = pkgs.haskell.packages.ghc982;
        devShell.mkShellArgs = {
          shellHook = config.pre-commit.installationScript;
          nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [
            alejandra 
            nil 
            gcc
            xorg.libX11
            xorg.libXext
            xorg.libXinerama
            xorg.libXrandr
            xorg.libXrender
            xorg.libXScrnSaver
            fontconfig
          ];
        };

(These were added to eliminate other dependency issues.)

Has anyone successfully used xmonad this way (outside of NixOS, but just nix flake + xmonad)? If so, would appreciate pointers.

I have stack installed with Ghcup.

I've been following the official building tutorial (https://xmonad.org/INSTALL.html), stack install command fails at xmonad-contrib/XMonad/Util/PureX.hs.

Full logs: https://dpaste.com/DM332ZHAW

Shorter logs:

xmonad-contrib> configure (lib)
xmonad-contrib> Configuring xmonad-contrib-0.17.1...
xmonad-contrib> build (lib) with ghc-9.6.6
xmonad-contrib> Preprocessing library for xmonad-contrib-0.17.1..
xmonad-contrib> Building library for xmonad-contrib-0.17.1..
xmonad-contrib> [ 72 of 308] Compiling XMonad.Hooks.WorkspaceByPos
xmonad-contrib> 
xmonad-contrib> /home/reo/dotfiles/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/XMonad/Hooks/WorkspaceByPos.hs:29:30: error:
xmonad-contrib>     Module ‘Control.Monad.Except’ does not export ‘lift’
xmonad-contrib>    |
xmonad-contrib> 29 | import Control.Monad.Except (lift, runExceptT, throwError)
xmonad-contrib>    |                              ^^^^
xmonad-contrib> [119 of 308] Compiling XMonad.Util.PureX
xmonad-contrib> 
xmonad-contrib> /home/reo/dotfiles/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/XMonad/Util/PureX.hs:153:10: error: [GHC-88464]
xmonad-contrib>     Variable not in scope: void :: X Any -> X ()
xmonad-contrib>     Suggested fix:
xmonad-contrib>       Perhaps you want to add ‘void’ to the import list in the import of
xmonad-contrib>       ‘XMonad.Prelude’ (XMonad/Util/PureX.hs:56:1-54).
xmonad-contrib>     |
xmonad-contrib> 153 | defile = void . windowBracket' getAny
xmonad-contrib>     |          ^^^^
xmonad-contrib> 
xmonad-contrib> /home/reo/dotfiles/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/XMonad/Util/PureX.hs:197:15: error: [GHC-88464]
xmonad-contrib>     Variable not in scope: join :: f0 (m a) -> m a
xmonad-contrib>     Suggested fix:
xmonad-contrib>       Perhaps you want to add ‘join’ to the import list in the import of
xmonad-contrib>       ‘XMonad.Prelude’ (XMonad/Util/PureX.hs:56:1-54).
xmonad-contrib>     |
xmonad-contrib> 197 | withFocii f = join $ (whenJust' <$> peek) <*> (f <$> curTag)
xmonad-contrib>     |               ^^^^

Error: [S-7282]
       Stack failed to execute the build plan.
       
       While executing the build plan, Stack encountered the error:
       
       [S-7011]
       While building package xmonad-contrib-0.17.1 (scroll up to its section to see the error) using:
       /home/reo/.stack/setup-exe-cache/x86_64-linux/Cabal-simple_6HauvNHV_3.10.3.0_ghc-9.6.6 --verbose=1 --builddir=.stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux/ghc-9.6.6 build lib:xmonad-contrib --ghc-options " -fdiagnostics-color=always"
       Process exited with code: ExitFailure 1 

Thanks for your help.

Sometimes I find that if I launch firefox in a terminal in a DynamicProjects workspace called foo, then it will somehow launch in a workspace called bar. How can this be?

It's not always, so it's a bit hard to troubleshoot. I just wonder if there's like a thing I haven't gotten me head around?;)

I have not extensively troubleshot this, like bisecting my config, etc, cause it might be something trivial.

Hi,

I just wanted to know if anyone else has had problems when using some of the functions (e.g. `NoBorders` or `SmartBorders`) from the `XMonad.Layout.NoBorders` library in Chromium-based browser such as Brave. When I scroll/type/watch videos in Fullscreen mode or in the Full layout, the window starts flickering and doing weird stuff. I quickly tried it on Firefox and everything seems to work fine.

In case anybody else has experienced this issue, did you manage to solve it?

This doesn't seem to support fuzzy matching.

   -- , ((modm .|. mod1Mask .|. controlMask, xK_f), raise (title =? "*foobar*"))

Do we have function which supports some kind of wildcards?

Trying to set up Xmonad with Xmobar, and as soon as I add the Alsa volume module Xmobar will no longer start. This is what I'm trying to add:

Run Alsa "default" "Master"
                             [ "--template", "<volumestatus>"
                             , "--suffix"  , "True"
                             , "--"
                             , "--on", ""
                             ]

Literally copy pasted from the Xmonad documentation. When I add this Xmobar says there is an error on line 83, which is just a closing curly brace, so it makes no sense at all.

This is the entire config:

Config {

   -- appearance
     font = "Ubuntu Bold 12"
   , additionalFonts = [ "JetBrains Mono Nerd Font" ]
   , bgColor =      "#121212"
   , fgColor =      "#212121"
   , position =     TopH 28

   -- layout
   , sepChar =  "%"   -- delineator between plugin names and straight text
   , alignSep = "}{"  -- separator between left-right alignment
   , template = " %XMonadLog% } %date% { %alsa:default:Master% | %kbd% | %multicpu% | %coretemp% | %memory% "

   -- general behavior
   , lowerOnStart =     True    -- send to bottom of window stack on start
   , hideOnStart =      False   -- start with window unmapped (hidden)
   , allDesktops =      True    -- show on all desktops
   , overrideRedirect = True    -- set the Override Redirect flag (Xlib)
   , pickBroadest =     False   -- choose widest display (multi-monitor)
   , persistent =       True    -- enable/disable hiding (True = disabled)

   -- plugins
   --   Numbers can be automatically colored according to their value. xmobar
   --   decides color based on a three-tier/two-cutoff system, controlled by
   --   command options:
   --     --Low sets the low cutoff
   --     --High sets the high cutoff
   --
   --     --low sets the color below --Low cutoff
   --     --normal sets the color between --Low and --High cutoffs
   --     --High sets the color above --High cutoff
   --
   --   The --template option controls how the plugin is displayed. Text
   --   color can be set by enclosing in <fc></fc> tags. For more details
   --   see http://projects.haskell.org/xmobar/#system-monitor-plugins.
   , commands =
        -- cpu activity monitor
        [ Run MultiCpu       [ "--template" , "Cpu: <total0>%|<total1>%"
                             , "--Low"      , "50"         -- units: %
                             , "--High"     , "85"         -- units: %
                             , "--low"      , "darkgreen"
                             , "--normal"   , "darkorange"
                             , "--high"     , "darkred"
                             ] 10

        -- cpu core temperature monitor
        , Run CoreTemp       [ "--template" , "Temp: <core0>°C|<core1>°C"
                             , "--Low"      , "70"        -- units: °C
                             , "--High"     , "80"        -- units: °C
                             , "--low"      , "darkgreen"
                             , "--normal"   , "darkorange"
                             , "--high"     , "darkred"
                             ] 50

        -- memory usage monitor
        , Run Memory         [ "--template" ,"<box type=Bottom color=red width=2>Mem: <usedratio>%</box>"
                             , "--Low"      , "20"        -- units: %
                             , "--High"     , "90"        -- units: %
                             , "--low"      , "darkgreen"
                             , "--normal"   , "darkorange"
                             , "--high"     , "darkred"
                             ] 10

        -- time and date indicator
        --   (%F = y-m-d date, %a = day of week, %T = h:m:s time)
        , Run Date           "<box type=Bottom color=#37bcbe width=3><fc=#ffffff>  %H:%M %a %b %d, %Y</fc></box>" "date" 10

, Run Alsa "default" "Master"
                             [ "--template", "<volumestatus>"
                             , "--suffix"  , "True"
                             , "--"
                             , "--on", ""
                             ]

        -- keyboard layout indicator
        , Run Kbd            [ ("us" , "<fc=#37bcbe>   US</fc>")
                             , ("rs(latinyz)", "<fc=#37bcbe>   RS (Latin)</fc>")
                             , ("rs", "<fc=#37bcbe>   RS</fc>")
                             ]
, Run XMonadLog
]
   }

Again - works perfectly fine when I remove the Run Alsa part.

I'm on Fedora 40. Installed all possible alsa plugins I could find in dnf - alsa-utils, alsa-tools, pipewire-alsa, alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.... amixer binary is there. I have no idea how to fix this and can't find anyone with a similar issue. The error is completely useless.

Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

UPDATE: Couldn't fix this no matter what, just wrote my own script for the volume.