(06-22-2013, 07:08 PM)Deque Wrote: I totally agree with you. It is crap. Nevertheless I will play around with it for a while just to know what there is to know, to see security flaws and possible problems. There are plenty people using it, also in my family, and they often need help to fix stuff. You probably know these situations. I can help them better if I know how it works.

But other than that, It is so aweful to use, the ways for the mouse are so awefully long, the whole user interface is so unintuitive and inconsistent I could just

(06-22-2013, 05:06 PM)noize Wrote: How did you get to make your Xmonad... like that? :headbash:

I just installed it, took my old config file from my arch system and changed it a bit (i.e. removed everything that is for xmobarr)

This is my current ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs

Code:

import XMonad
import XMonad.Config.Gnome
import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog
import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks
import XMonad.Hooks.FadeInactive
import XMonad.Hooks.SetWMName
import XMonad.Util.Run(spawnPipe)
import XMonad.Util.EZConfig(additionalKeys)
import System.IO

myNormalBorderColor = "#cccccc"
myFocusedBorderColor = "#0000ff"

myManageHook = composeAll
        [ (className =? "Firefox" <&&> resource =? "Dialog") --> doFloat
        , manageDocks
        ]

myLayout = Mirror tiled ||| tiled ||| Full
  where
    -- default tiling algorithm partitions the screen into two panes
    tiled   = Tall nmaster delta ratio

    -- The default number of windows in the master pane
    nmaster = 1

    -- Default proportion of screen occupied by master pane
    ratio   = 3/4

    -- Ratio of screen to increment by when resizing panes
    delta   = 3/100

main = do
        xmonad $ gnomeConfig
                { manageHook = myManageHook <+> manageHook gnomeConfig
                , layoutHook = avoidStruts myLayout
                , workspaces = ["web", "irc", "mail", "coding"] ++ map show [5..9]
                , modMask = mod4Mask
                , normalBorderColor = myNormalBorderColor
                , focusedBorderColor = myFocusedBorderColor
                }`additionalKeys`
                [ ((controlMask, xK_Print), spawn "sleep 0.2; scrot -s")
                , ((0, xK_Print), spawn "scrot")
                ]

(06-22-2013, 10:54 PM)noize Wrote:

(06-22-2013, 07:08 PM)Deque Wrote: I totally agree with you. It is crap. Nevertheless I will play around with it for a while just to know what there is to know, to see security flaws and possible problems. There are plenty people using it, also in my family, and they often need help to fix stuff. You probably know these situations. I can help them better if I know how it works.

But other than that, It is so aweful to use, the ways for the mouse are so awefully long, the whole user interface is so unintuitive and inconsistent I could just

(06-22-2013, 05:06 PM)noize Wrote: How did you get to make your Xmonad... like that? :headbash:

I just installed it, took my old config file from my arch system and changed it a bit (i.e. removed everything that is for xmobarr)

This is my current ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs

Code:

import XMonad
import XMonad.Config.Gnome
import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog
import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks
import XMonad.Hooks.FadeInactive
import XMonad.Hooks.SetWMName
import XMonad.Util.Run(spawnPipe)
import XMonad.Util.EZConfig(additionalKeys)
import System.IO

myNormalBorderColor = "#cccccc"
myFocusedBorderColor = "#0000ff"

myManageHook = composeAll
        [ (className =? "Firefox" <&&> resource =? "Dialog") --> doFloat
        , manageDocks
        ]

myLayout = Mirror tiled ||| tiled ||| Full
  where
    -- default tiling algorithm partitions the screen into two panes
    tiled   = Tall nmaster delta ratio

    -- The default number of windows in the master pane
    nmaster = 1

    -- Default proportion of screen occupied by master pane
    ratio   = 3/4

    -- Ratio of screen to increment by when resizing panes
    delta   = 3/100

main = do
        xmonad $ gnomeConfig
                { manageHook = myManageHook <+> manageHook gnomeConfig
                , layoutHook = avoidStruts myLayout
                , workspaces = ["web", "irc", "mail", "coding"] ++ map show [5..9]
                , modMask = mod4Mask
                , normalBorderColor = myNormalBorderColor
                , focusedBorderColor = myFocusedBorderColor
                }`additionalKeys`
                [ ((controlMask, xK_Print), spawn "sleep 0.2; scrot -s")
                , ((0, xK_Print), spawn "scrot")
                ]

Crash! I don't know Haskell. :crying:

(06-23-2013, 03:01 AM)Deque Wrote:

(06-22-2013, 10:54 PM)noize Wrote:

(06-22-2013, 07:08 PM)Deque Wrote: I totally agree with you. It is crap. Nevertheless I will play around with it for a while just to know what there is to know, to see security flaws and possible problems. There are plenty people using it, also in my family, and they often need help to fix stuff. You probably know these situations. I can help them better if I know how it works.

But other than that, It is so aweful to use, the ways for the mouse are so awefully long, the whole user interface is so unintuitive and inconsistent I could just

(06-22-2013, 05:06 PM)noize Wrote: How did you get to make your Xmonad... like that? :headbash:

I just installed it, took my old config file from my arch system and changed it a bit (i.e. removed everything that is for xmobarr)

This is my current ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs

Code:

import XMonad
import XMonad.Config.Gnome
import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog
import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks
import XMonad.Hooks.FadeInactive
import XMonad.Hooks.SetWMName
import XMonad.Util.Run(spawnPipe)
import XMonad.Util.EZConfig(additionalKeys)
import System.IO

myNormalBorderColor = "#cccccc"
myFocusedBorderColor = "#0000ff"

myManageHook = composeAll
        [ (className =? "Firefox" <&&> resource =? "Dialog") --> doFloat
        , manageDocks
        ]

myLayout = Mirror tiled ||| tiled ||| Full
  where
    -- default tiling algorithm partitions the screen into two panes
    tiled   = Tall nmaster delta ratio

    -- The default number of windows in the master pane
    nmaster = 1

    -- Default proportion of screen occupied by master pane
    ratio   = 3/4

    -- Ratio of screen to increment by when resizing panes
    delta   = 3/100

main = do
        xmonad $ gnomeConfig
                { manageHook = myManageHook <+> manageHook gnomeConfig
                , layoutHook = avoidStruts myLayout
                , workspaces = ["web", "irc", "mail", "coding"] ++ map show [5..9]
                , modMask = mod4Mask
                , normalBorderColor = myNormalBorderColor
                , focusedBorderColor = myFocusedBorderColor
                }`additionalKeys`
                [ ((controlMask, xK_Print), spawn "sleep 0.2; scrot -s")
                , ((0, xK_Print), spawn "scrot")
                ]

Crash! I don't know Haskell. :crying:

I am sorry, I forgot to mention that I installed a few other things too besides xmonad.
That was:
libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev
gnome-panel
indicator-applet-complete
indicator-multiload
dmenu

It's probably the Gnome.Config that crashed.

You should test the xmonad.hs if it compiles with: ghc --make xmonad.hs
You can avoid crashes this way and you get an error message.

I hope it works for you now.

Quote:You can avoid crashes this and you get an error message.

(06-23-2013, 08:50 AM)noize Wrote: I'm trying it right away and will let you know, though, what did you mean with:

Quote:You can avoid crashes this and you get an error message.

? Maybe I'll avoid crashes when else I'd get an error message?

(06-23-2013, 09:27 AM)Deque Wrote:

(06-23-2013, 08:50 AM)noize Wrote: I'm trying it right away and will let you know, though, what did you mean with:

Quote:You can avoid crashes this and you get an error message.

? Maybe I'll avoid crashes when else I'd get an error message?

I am just saying that you should compile the script by hand before trying to log out and in again to see what happens. If the config doesn't compile, you will have problems then.

I thought your xmonad crashed.

Edit: If Haskell is the problem, you might as well try another tiling window manager, i.e. wmii or awesome

(06-23-2013, 11:51 AM)noize Wrote: Cool, I tested it and it actually crashed this time. :lol:

Well, at first it refused to give the Terminal prompt with ALT+SHIFT+ENTER, I tried tons of other keycombos but nothing. Then a blink cursor appeared, followed by errors about failed POWER_DATA sending, or something like that.

I already had:
- libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev
- indicator-applet-complete

I installed:
- gnome-panel
- indicator-multiload
- dmenu

Then I ran:

Code:

ghc --make /home/noize/.xmonad/xmonad.hs

After that I did:

Code:

pkill -u noize

I got to the logon screen and entered the password.

For what's with awesome, I have installed it too, but prefer Xmonad.

I heard about wmii but I never tried it so far. I'll give it a shot, maybe. Though, taking a readymade configuration file like yours and editing it to my preferences shouldn't be any hard even if not knowing Haskell.

Edit: probably I'll stick with some static WM instead, but I'll surely use Xmonad too as it's a nice dynamic WM, I just need to set it up.

(06-23-2013, 04:17 PM)Deque Wrote: If you used my config file: My xmonad.hs changes the mod key from ALT to the windows key. Maybe it was that.

Quote:Just a thing, in mine I seem to not have the top and bottom bars I can see in the picture, is it maybe dmenu?

(06-24-2013, 12:55 PM)noize Wrote: Thanks. Well, I'll try that soon and let you know, but for "my first problem" you mean the problem about the onWorkspace thing? I think so as it's the only part you changed, but maybe I should consider instead the second code you published?

Apart from that, would you mind clearing for me what "map show" (I noticed you edited that too) and the delta variable are?