[xmonad] How to use XMonad.Util.NamedWindows from xmonad-contrib?

[Dmitrij Czarkoff]

Well, while it works reliably, it fails to update caption if cyrillic
symbols are in title. Is it a misconfiguration, a known bug or a bug
to file?

2008/5/5 Don Stewart <dons at galois.com>:
> czarkoff:
>
> > I don't know haskell, so I don't understand the extensions'
>  > describtion. I just need to add window titles to my windows.
>  > I'm using xmonad 0.7.
>
>  Welcome!
>
>  You just need to pick up the configuration syntax, a little, and there's
>  lots of examples in the docs, so its not too hard to pick up.
>
>  So, to add titles to all windows, you'd use one of the layouts
>  that provides window titles, such as:
>
>     "DwmStyle"
>     http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Layout-DwmStyle.html
>
>  To actually use this, you edit your  ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs file to
>
>   import XMonad.Layout.DwmStyle
>
>  which brings the DwmStyle layout into scope. And then edit your
>  layoutHook by adding the DwmStyle decoration to your layout:
>
>   main = xmonad defaultConfig { layoutHook = myLayout }
>
>   myLayout = dwmStyle shrinkText defaultTheme (layoutHook defaultConfig)
>
>  A  complete, simple xmonad.hs that adds dwm-style window titles to
>  each window would then be:
>
>     import XMonad
>     import XMonad.Layout.DwmStyle
>
>     main = xmonad defaultConfig {
>                     layoutHook =
>                         dwmStyle shrinkText defaultTheme
>                             (layoutHook defaultConfig)
>                   }
>
>
>  Put that in your xmonad.hs file and load it with mod-q.
>  I've added this full example to the documentation.
>
>  Cheers,
>     Don
>



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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff