[xmonad] Issue 177 in xmonad: xmonad does not follow ICCCM and ignores WM_TAKE_FOCUS protocol

[wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu]

Yep, it's a precedence problem. Swap out ($) for parentheses:

     logHook = takeTopFocus >> dynamicLogWithPP (xmobarPP { ... })

~d

Quoting Eyal Erez <oneself at gmail.com>:

> Thank you for your help,
>
> Yeah, that's what I figured as well, but then I get this error when I
> recompile:
>
> xmonad.hs:391:25:
>     Couldn't match expected type `a -> a1' against inferred type `X ()'
>     In the first argument of `(>>)', namely `takeTopFocus'
>     In the first argument of `($)', namely
>         `takeTopFocus >> dynamicLogWithPP'
>     In the `logHook' field of a record
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Eyal Erez <oneself at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I apologize in advance for the newbie question, but how can I
>>> combine takeTopFocus with my existing logHook for xmobar?  Currently, my
>>> logHook looks like this:
>>> logHook = dynamicLogWithPP $ xmobarPP
>>>                    { ppOutput = hPutStrLn xmproc
>>>                    , ppTitle = xmobarColor "#a8fc46" "" . shorten 50
>>>                    , ppOrder = \(ws:_:t:_) -> [ws, t]
>>>                    }
>>>
>>
>> Easiest is to prepend it:
>>
>> logHook = takeTopFocus >>
>>           dynamicLogWithPP $ xmobarPP
>>                              { ppOutput = hPutStrLn xmproc
>>                              , ppTitle = xmobarColor "#a8fc46" "" .
>> shorten 50
>>                              , ppOrder = \(ws:_:t:_) -> [ws, t]
>>                              }
>>
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>>
>
>
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>
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