[xmonad] Call for xmonad.hs

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Fri Oct 31 20:59:02 EDT 2008


gwern0:
> Followup: OK, so as everyone can see, I've gone through the config
> archive and checked everything in GHCi.
> 
> I've moved everything that didn't compile into
> <http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive#Old_configurations>.
> This isn't a subpage, but a subsection. (Of course, with things split
> out like that, it certainly would be easy to make it a subpage if
> desired.)
> 
> In total, there were 20 configurations that worked. Including 1 I was
> sent privately, that makes 21 to work with. There were many which
> didn't work; some for odd reasons. Sereven's failed because some sort
> of prompt theme was defined but not used; 2 failed because a constant
> inadvertently had come to clash with a function (I fixed those); and a
> good 4 or 5 broke because of the defaultGaps move and related changes.

Good work!
  
> Later I'll take a look at them and see what commonalities I see.
> Offhand, 'cat *|sort|uniq -c|sort' turns out some surprising results:
> 
>       3 import Data.Ratio ((%))
>       3 import Graphics.X11
>       3 import XMonad.Actions.SwapWorkspaces
>       3 import XMonad.Hooks.SetWMName
>       3 import XMonad.Layout.Gaps
>       3 import XMonad.Layout.WindowNavigation
>       3 import XMonad.Operations
>       3 main = xmonad $ defaultConfig
>       3 myManageHook = composeAll
>       4 import qualified Data.Map        as M
>       4 import System.IO (hPutStrLn)
>       4 import XMonad.Actions.UpdatePointer
>       4 import XMonad.Hooks.EwmhDesktops
>       4 import XMonad.Util.Run
>       4 import XMonad.Util.Run (spawnPipe)
>       5 import Data.Bits ((.|.))
>       5 import Data.Ratio
>       5 import XMonad.Actions.Submap
>       5 import XMonad.Layout
>       5 import XMonad.Layout.TwoPane
>       6 import System.Exit
>       6 import XMonad.Actions.CycleWS
>       6 import XMonad.Actions.DwmPromote
>       6 import XMonad.Layout.Tabbed
>       7 import System.IO
>       7 import XMonad.Hooks.UrgencyHook
>       7 import XMonad.Prompt.Shell
>       7 import XMonad.Prompt.Ssh
>       8 import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog
>       8 import XMonad.Util.EZConfig
>       9 import XMonad.Layout.NoBorders
> 
> Looks to me perhaps the calls to make NoBorders a default are
> sensible. Also, 16 of the 21 configs use Data.Map in some capacity,
> which is interesting.

*VERY* interesting data. And great vision to think of this Gwern!
Might be time to revisit the defaults. Especially if we can gather more
configs.

-- Don


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