From info at mito-space.com  Wed Dec 15 19:48:14 2021
From: info at mito-space.com (nyam)
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 20:48:14 +0100
Subject: [xmonad] Different xmonad configs?
Message-ID: <43248451-40df-3215-d55a-98a920d2a332@mito-space.com>

Hi all!


Is there an option to compile and (re)start etc. individual 'xmonad.hs',
such as one has different DE/WMs and wants to use e. g. together with
their own adapted xmonad? – Like:


$ xmonad --file=/path/to/xmonad-de1.hs --recompile

$ exec xmonad --file=/path/to/xmonad-de1.hs

or

$ xmonad --file=/path/to/xmonad-de2.hs --recompile

$ xmonad --restart --file=/path/to/xmonad-de2.hs

or

$ xmonad --recompile --file=/path/to/xmonad-pure.hs

$ exec xmonad --file=/path/to/xmonad-pure.hs


Would be a cool feature, though so far the manpage or any web resources
don't mention it.


Cheers!



From allbery.b at gmail.com  Wed Dec 15 19:57:33 2021
From: allbery.b at gmail.com (Brandon Allbery)
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 14:57:33 -0500
Subject: [xmonad] Different xmonad configs?
In-Reply-To: <43248451-40df-3215-d55a-98a920d2a332@mito-space.com>
References: <43248451-40df-3215-d55a-98a920d2a332@mito-space.com>
Message-ID: <CAKFCL4UcvtwUfLP2u3QeDW8vfc_7DHho99kMwFESuT+4TVe0Bg@mail.gmail.com>

I used to simulate it with a wrapper, but that was a decade ago when I
was jumping between xmonad+KDE and bare xmonad according to need.
There's no built-in mechanism for it, and one might be difficult to
add these days because of how the cabal and stack-based setups work.

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 2:51 PM nyam <info at mito-space.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
>
> Is there an option to compile and (re)start etc. individual 'xmonad.hs',
> such as one has different DE/WMs and wants to use e. g. together with
> their own adapted xmonad? – Like:
>
>
> $ xmonad --file=/path/to/xmonad-de1.hs --recompile
>
> $ exec xmonad --file=/path/to/xmonad-de1.hs
>
> or
>
> $ xmonad --file=/path/to/xmonad-de2.hs --recompile
>
> $ xmonad --restart --file=/path/to/xmonad-de2.hs
>
> or
>
> $ xmonad --recompile --file=/path/to/xmonad-pure.hs
>
> $ exec xmonad --file=/path/to/xmonad-pure.hs
>
>
> Would be a cool feature, though so far the manpage or any web resources
> don't mention it.
>
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> xmonad mailing list
> xmonad at haskell.org
> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmonad



-- 
brandon s allbery kf8nh
allbery.b at gmail.com

From soliditsallgood at mailbox.org  Wed Dec 15 20:11:43 2021
From: soliditsallgood at mailbox.org (Solid)
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 21:11:43 +0100
Subject: [xmonad] Different xmonad configs?
In-Reply-To: <CAKFCL4UcvtwUfLP2u3QeDW8vfc_7DHho99kMwFESuT+4TVe0Bg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <43248451-40df-3215-d55a-98a920d2a332@mito-space.com>
 <CAKFCL4UcvtwUfLP2u3QeDW8vfc_7DHho99kMwFESuT+4TVe0Bg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <87sfutsk5c.fsf@hyperspace>

On Wed, Dec 15 2021 14:57, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> There's no built-in mechanism for it, and one might be difficult to
> add these days because of how the cabal and stack-based setups work.

Indeed, I think the main problem lies here; especially since we're now
providing more or less frictionless (i.e., no build script necessary)
stack support out of the box.  A `--file` option that only makes sense
in case of a specific setup would feel a bit unsatisfying (at least to
me).

Though, I would imagine something like this shouldn't be too difficult
to hack together via a shell-script wrapper.

From platon7pronko at gmail.com  Wed Dec 15 21:34:27 2021
From: platon7pronko at gmail.com (Platon Pronko)
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 00:34:27 +0300
Subject: [xmonad] Different xmonad configs?
In-Reply-To: <43248451-40df-3215-d55a-98a920d2a332@mito-space.com>
References: <43248451-40df-3215-d55a-98a920d2a332@mito-space.com>
Message-ID: <72c7ede5-e5c2-41dd-3bc2-d80b5d4c517f@gmail.com>

Hi!

I suspect the easiest way around this might be to detect the current DE/WM at runtime somehow and change Xmonad behavior accordingly, this way a lot of code will be reused between configs for different WMs.

That said, reading through source code in Core.hs there are references to XMONAD_DATA_DIR, XMONAD_CONFIG_DIR, XMONAD_CACHE_DIR environment vars that can be used to control where xmonad gets the files from:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-0.17.0/docs/src/XMonad.Core.html#getDirectories

So probably you can place different xmonad.hs files into different directories and then use XMONAD_CONFIG_DIR to control what files are compiled.

Best regards,
Platon Pronko

On 2021-12-15 22:48, nyam wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> 
> Is there an option to compile and (re)start etc. individual 'xmonad.hs',
> such as one has different DE/WMs and wants to use e. g. together with
> their own adapted xmonad? – Like:
> 
> 
> $ xmonad --file=/path/to/xmonad-de1.hs --recompile
> 
> $ exec xmonad --file=/path/to/xmonad-de1.hs
> 
> or
> 
> $ xmonad --file=/path/to/xmonad-de2.hs --recompile
> 
> $ xmonad --restart --file=/path/to/xmonad-de2.hs
> 
> or
> 
> $ xmonad --recompile --file=/path/to/xmonad-pure.hs
> 
> $ exec xmonad --file=/path/to/xmonad-pure.hs
> 
> 
> Would be a cool feature, though so far the manpage or any web resources
> don't mention it.
> 
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> xmonad mailing list
> xmonad at haskell.org
> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmonad

From rdiaz02 at gmail.com  Sun Dec 26 23:50:37 2021
From: rdiaz02 at gmail.com (Ramon Diaz-Uriarte)
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 00:50:37 +0100
Subject: [xmonad] withWorkspace (Actions.DynamicWorkspaces): use fuzzyMatch?
Message-ID: <87bl12apgu.fsf@gmail.com>


Dear All,


Summary:
========

I think withWorkspace, from Actions.DynamicWorkspaces, does not honor fuzzyMatch (Prompt.FuzzyMatch).

In contrast, selectWorkspace and renameWorkspace (also from DynamicWorkspaces) do work with fuzzyMatch. workspacePrompt (Prompt.Workspace) and switchProjectPrompt (Actions.DynamicProjects) also work with fuzzyMatch.



Details
========

With this in my xmonad.hs

    mySPcentered = def {
         searchPredicate = fuzzyMatch
       , sorter          = fuzzySort
       }

the following
    
      , ("M-m", withWorkspace mySPcentered (windows . W.shift))

does not use fuzzy matching but
    
      , ("M-m", workspacePrompt mySPcentered (windows . W.shift))
    
does use fuzzy matching.

Note that

    , ("M-a", selectWorkspace mySPcentered)
    , ("M-s", renameWorkspace mySPcentered)       

both use fuzzy matching (and both selectWorkspace and renameWorkspace are from DynamicWorkspaces). And note that

    , ("M-w", switchProjectPrompt myProjectConfig)

with switchProjectPrompt from Actions.DynamicProjects, also works with fuzzyMatch.





Workaround?
===========

Complete Haskell ignorant here, but from looking at the source of withWorkspace (Actions.DynamicWorkspaces) and workspacePrompt (Prompt.Workspace), I wonder if withWorkspace should be written as

withWorkspace  c job = do
                       ws <- gets (workspaces . windowset)
                       sort <- getSortByIndex
                       let ts = map W.tag $ sort ws
                           job' t | t `elem` ts = job t
                                  | otherwise = addHiddenWorkspace t >> job t
                       mkXPrompt (Wor "") c (mkComplFunFromList' c ts) job'


I have changed the last line from
   mkXPrompt (Wor "") c (mkCompl ts) job'
to
   mkXPrompt (Wor "") c (mkComplFunFromList' c ts) job'


Using this in my xmonad.hs seems to work fine with windows' shift, copy and shiftThenView (last one from Ivan Malison's https://github.com/ivanmalison/dotfiles/blob/0a84ad772e21155cfc00458b66ccb79899699689/dotfiles/config/xmonad/xmonad.hs#L788) 



Best,



-- 
Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-31
Facultad de Medicina
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 
Arzobispo Morcillo, 4
28029 Madrid
Spain

Phone: +34-91-497-2412

Email: rdiaz02 at gmail.com
       r.diaz at uam.es

https://ligarto.org/rdiaz

From soliditsallgood at mailbox.org  Mon Dec 27 07:00:26 2021
From: soliditsallgood at mailbox.org (Solid)
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 08:00:26 +0100
Subject: [xmonad] withWorkspace (Actions.DynamicWorkspaces): use
 fuzzyMatch?
In-Reply-To: <87bl12apgu.fsf@gmail.com>
References: <87bl12apgu.fsf@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <87y246jzw5.fsf@hyperspace>

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 27 2021 00:50, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
> I have changed the last line from
>    mkXPrompt (Wor "") c (mkCompl ts) job'
> to
>    mkXPrompt (Wor "") c (mkComplFunFromList' c ts) job'
>
> Using this in my xmonad.hs seems to work fine with windows' shift,
> copy and shiftThenView (last one from Ivan Malison's
> https://github.com/ivanmalison/dotfiles/blob/0a84ad772e21155cfc00458b66ccb79899699689/dotfiles/config/xmonad/xmonad.hs#L788)

Indeed, I think this would be the right change.  The current `mkCompl`
is basically just what `mkComplFunFromList'` with the default
`searchPredicate` (which is `isPrefixOf`) does; it's definitely better
to let users choose their own predicate.  If you want, you can submit a
pull-request for this[1]!

  Tony

[1]: https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/compare

From rdiaz02 at gmail.com  Tue Dec 28 03:37:43 2021
From: rdiaz02 at gmail.com (Ramon Diaz-Uriarte)
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 04:37:43 +0100
Subject: [xmonad] withWorkspace (Actions.DynamicWorkspaces): use
 fuzzyMatch?
In-Reply-To: <87y246jzw5.fsf@hyperspace>
References: <87bl12apgu.fsf@gmail.com> <87y246jzw5.fsf@hyperspace>
Message-ID: <877dbp9z3i.fsf@gmail.com>




On Mon, 27-December-2021, at 08:00:26, Solid <soliditsallgood at mailbox.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Dec 27 2021 00:50, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
>> I have changed the last line from
>>    mkXPrompt (Wor "") c (mkCompl ts) job'
>> to
>>    mkXPrompt (Wor "") c (mkComplFunFromList' c ts) job'
>>
>> Using this in my xmonad.hs seems to work fine with windows' shift,
>> copy and shiftThenView (last one from Ivan Malison's
>> https://github.com/ivanmalison/dotfiles/blob/0a84ad772e21155cfc00458b66ccb79899699689/dotfiles/config/xmonad/xmonad.hs#L788)
>
> Indeed, I think this would be the right change.  The current `mkCompl`
> is basically just what `mkComplFunFromList'` with the default
> `searchPredicate` (which is `isPrefixOf`) does; it's definitely better
> to let users choose their own predicate.

Thanks for the confirmation!


> If you want, you can submit a pull-request for this[1]!


I just did. (Which makes me feel rather uneasy, given my haskell-ignorance ;-) )


Best,

R.


>
>   Tony
>
> [1]: https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/compare


-- 
Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-31
Facultad de Medicina
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 
Arzobispo Morcillo, 4
28029 Madrid
Spain

Phone: +34-91-497-2412

Email: rdiaz02 at gmail.com
       r.diaz at uam.es

https://ligarto.org/rdiaz