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08:11:25 <Solid> liskin: sounds great :)
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08:20:51 mc47 committed the sin of calling `windows` insde `logHook`, and wondering why my system broke
08:21:59 <Solid> :]
08:28:02 <xmonadtrack> New branch created: pull/421 (1 commit) https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/pull/421
08:28:02 <xmonadtrack> xmonad Tony Zorman https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/pull/421 * v0.17.1-8-g3d8238b: Expose buildLaunch, sendRestart, and sendReplace (47 minutes ago, 3 files, 59+ 54-) https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/commit/3d8238b35d0f
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11:29:27 geekosaur wonders if that's worth documenting as part of `logHook`
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11:56:02 <mc47> maybe we should, I shot myself in the foot a couple of times trying to add this new functionality
11:56:09 <mc47> sticky windows
12:07:12 <geekosaur> hm, why logHook? afaik it should be in manageHook and handleEventHook
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12:21:09 <mc47> I want to detect when visible workspaces change
12:22:19 <geekosaur> hm. so you want to move the window dynamically instead of just using copyToAll?
12:22:25 <mc47> yes
12:22:44 <mc47> I mean I remember trying copyToAll and not liking it
12:22:53 <mc47> totally forgot about it when I wanted to add this lol
12:22:56 <mc47> might take another look
12:27:15 <liskin> we could also extend XConf and use Control.Monad.Reader.local to prevent recursion in windows :-)
12:34:13 <[Leary]> I have some changes I've been sitting on / testing for months now which also provide a fix for logHook. In particular, any changes it makes are handled in the same refresh.
12:35:37 <[Leary]> The changes are reasonably small, not outwardly breaking, and essentially semantics preserving ... but they touch deep stuff. Like, redefining X.
12:37:01 <[Leary]> So I'm not really sure if they'd go in. That said, I still plan to write up a motivating PR some time soon.
12:39:22 <geekosaur> I don't thhink a lot of stuff depends on the exact structure of X; that's what the mtl classes are for
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12:49:19 <andi_> where there some breaking changes from 0.16. to 0.17?
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12:51:45 <geekosaur> we made some default* names go away as they;ve been deprecated for several versions. there were a few others; check the changelog
12:51:54 <geekosaur> no major breaking changes to the core
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12:55:23 <geekosaur> https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/blob/master/CHANGES.md#breaking-changes-2
13:03:37 <andi_> see this is my xmonad.hs https://paste.xinu.at/kywzt/ but i cannot recompile, because of line 73 (myXPConfig = defaultXPConfig, variable not found in scope) and line 102 with the same problem but i don't see why this is a problem?
13:10:03 <geekosaur> that's one of the removed names I mentioned. use `def` instead
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13:15:26 <andi_> but as they're depreciated i probably should get rid of them, wouldn't that be a better idea?
13:17:07 <geekosaur> no? the only things deprecated are the old names, `def` is the new way to do it
13:27:13 <andi_> alright, thank you very much geekosaur
13:31:33 <Solid> andi_: you can also read through the breaking changes for contrib 0.17.0 here: https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/blob/master/CHANGES.md#breaking-changes-2
14:05:16 <geekosaur> I pointed to that already 🙂
14:05:39 <Solid> oh
14:05:41 <Solid> sorry about that
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14:17:47 <mc47> geekosaur I remember why I CopyWindow didn't do it for me: it breaks with multiple monitors
14:21:32 <geekosaur> breaks how? (aside from the fact that X11 won't let a window be more than one place at a time)
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14:31:36 <xmonadtrack> xmonad-contrib Luca Leon Happel {Tony Zorman} * v0.17.1-11-gae652b40: X.L.BorderResize: Add borderResizeNear (26 hours ago, 2 files, 43+ 29-) https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/commit/ae652b40f498
14:31:37 <xmonadtrack> xmonad-contrib Tony Zorman {GitHub} * v0.17.1-12-gb0fc5549: Merge pull request #754 from Quoteme/master (79 seconds ago, 0 files, 0+ 0-) https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/commit/b0fc55499d16
14:41:07 <mc47> geekosaur it would move the window between screens, whereas I want it to stick on one screen
14:41:20 <mc47> breaks as in breaks for my usecase
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21:24:32 <henninb> Hi, I am trying to fix a formatting issue with my bar dzen in xmonad. I posted the question on reddit which describes the problem 'https://www.reddit.com/r/xmonad/comments/x9so8z/dzen2_bar_spacing_issue/' please provide any suggestions on how I can troubleshoot this issue.
21:32:22 <geekosaur> gentoo just upgraded their xmonad, but I don't think any of the changes in 0.17.1 could have caused that. or 0.17.0 for that matter
21:33:24 <henninb> geekosaur, I don't think so either on the gentoo comment. I suppose I could try and downgrade.
21:34:03 <geekosaur> I don't know of a dzen2 upgrade but the workspace information would be coming from xmonad, dzaen2 doesn't reformat it
21:34:20 <geekosaur> it just displays what it's given
21:34:33 <henninb> agreed, it is a very strange issue.
21:35:14 <henninb> i think the data coming out of xmonad is stored in a pipe, do I have that right?
21:35:32 <geekosaur> try the downgrade I guess, if that fixes it then we'll have to see if something unexpectedly changed with the dzen formatting. (I think only the xmobar stuff had actually been tested, but I have trouble imagining something that would break only dzen like that)
21:35:46 <geekosaur> depends on how you have it configured
21:36:14 <geekosaur> we've been moving to using properties because it's kinda bad when someone misconfigures their bar and xmonad hands writing to the pipe
21:36:19 <geekosaur> *hangs
21:36:49 <geekosaur> but neither pipes nor X11 properties alter what they contain
21:37:10 <henninb> agreed
21:37:41 <henninb> I may end up switching to xmobar if I can't figure this out :)
21:38:05 <henninb> for what it is worth, this is my config. https://github.com/henninb/dotfiles/blob/main/.config/xmonad/xmonad.hs
21:38:59 <geekosaur> I was about to ask for that 🙂
21:39:52 <henninb> :)
21:40:27 <henninb> do you have a good example of using properties vs using pipes? I can also do some digging on my own.
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21:49:43 <geekosaur> hm. this is dzen2, I think it can only be fed via a pipe
21:50:09 <geekosaur> xmobar has a property reader that can be used in place of StdinReader but dzen2 only does stdin
21:51:35 <henninb> Thank you geekosaur, that makes sense. I just reading some points on that topic.
21:53:23 <geekosaur> sorry for delay, I had popped outward from your xmonad.hs to look at the local dzen module and see if anything stood out in there
21:54:39 <henninb> I just appreciate you taking a look and providing your thoughts. Thank you.
21:55:47 <henninb> is there a way to "intercept" the content of the pipe before it is displayed?
21:56:56 <geekosaur> not as such. you could arrange to write it to a file as well as the pipe though
21:57:26 <henninb> that is a great idea. then I could see what is going on.
21:58:15 <geekosaur> https://github.com/henninb/dotfiles/blob/main/.config/xmonad/lib/Local/DzenLogHook.hs#L41
21:59:05 <geekosaur> ppOutput = \s -> hPutStrLn h s >> hPutStrLn stderr s
21:59:15 <geekosaur> may have to import stderr from System.IO
21:59:33 <henninb> awesome, i will give it a try.
21:59:54 <geekosaur> and the output should go to ~/.xsession-errors unless you';re using startx, in which case you either need to redirect its output to a file or switch to the original console
22:00:17 <henninb> I am using sddm
22:01:12 <geekosaur> you may have to check iots configuration to see where the session output goes
22:02:29 <henninb> ok
22:04:09 <geekosaur> hah, knew I remembered something about that. ~/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log
22:05:18 <geekosaur[m]> Test
22:05:39 <geekosaur> only working in one direction 😞
22:06:10 <henninb> found it.
22:07:28 <henninb> I am going to paste the content in my reddit post. give me a few seconds.
22:09:34 <henninb> posted.
22:20:10 <geekosaur> that looks correct
22:20:35 <geekosaur> most of the "noise" is setting the font or specifying the click behavior for clickableWorkspaces
22:20:58 <henninb> exactly
22:21:14 <geekosaur> so either the font metrics are wildly off or dzen is inserting spaces. since dzen has no code or, or reason to, edit its input, I'd check the font
22:21:37 <geekosaur> or whether it changed in such a way that dzen can't handle it any more
22:21:41 <henninb> good idea, I will try a different font.
22:22:25 <henninb> this seems like a dzen2 issue vs an xmonad issue.
22:23:27 <geekosaur> or dzaen is allocating screen space for its escapes for some reason which would be a dzen bug
22:25:13 <henninb> thank you for taking a look geekosaur.
22:27:41 <geekosaur> no problem, that's what we're here in #xmonad for
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