This applies for withSB and withEasySB, as well as statusBarProp and
statusBarPropTo, making composability better. statusBarPipe is more
awkward to use now, but that's fine
- XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog.PP: the pretty-printing abstracion, with the
corresponding utilities
- XMonad.Hooks.StatusBar: A new module to provide a better interface to
manage external status bars.
This more general function subsumes (almost) all previously known
combinators in this library (it is still symmetric with regards to
magnification, as this is what most users want). Also export some
previously internal (but not crucial to the implementation) types to
make this possible.
The silent error `user error (createFontSet)` would break certain
modules (like the prompt) by simply not showing anything.
Pango 1.44 dropped support for FreeType in favor of HarfBuzz, losing
support for traditional BDF/PCF bitmap fonts. Hence, some distributions
don't ship `xorg-fonts-misc` anymore.
Fixes https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/issues/348
We only requested PropertyChange events from docks in the `manageDocks`
manageHook, but that only gets called for normal windows, not
override_redirect ones. Therefore, xmobar in its default configuration
wouldn't get its struts refreshed on changes. This resulted in gaps not
updating after xmobar repositions itself on xrandr changes.
If one wanted to handle that repositioning in xmonad, it was possible to
configure xmobar with `overrideRedirect = False`, which is meant for
window managers with proper EWMH stacking order support [1], so in
xmonad it resulted in xmobar covering fullscreen windows. That can be
worked around by adding `checkDock --> doLower` to manageHook, but it
starts to smell of too many workarounds.
[1]: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.5.html#STACKINGORDER
The fix is to request PropertyChange events for all windows that we
treat as docks.
Related: https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/pull/490
This is primarily a cleanup to make it easier to use `setDocksMask` from
the on-demand cache init (see further commits), but it makes the code
nicer:
- the logic to refresh and cache a strut is now concentrated in
`updateStrut` instead of being spread over `updateStrutCache` and
`docksEventHook`
- the logic to initialize the cache if not yet initialized is now
concentrated in `maybeInitStrutCache` instead of being spread over
`initStrutCache` and `getStrutCache`, so the dual-purpose return type
of `getStrutCache` is no more
- the logic to detect changes and refresh is now always handled by
`XS.modifiedM` instead of an additional `||`
Related: https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/pull/406
Ever since ce5aae5403 TopicSpace uses the
history implementation of X.H.WorkspaceHistory instead of something
hand-rolled. This, however, did not go far enough; at this point, we
can deprecate essentially all of TopicSpace's redundant history handling
and explicitly tell users to use the more modular X.H.WorkspaceHistory
instead.
For many (10+) years, we had a cascade of ugly workarounds:
* X.U.Run.spawnPipe returned a binary handle, so the String passed to
it must have been encoded by C.B.UTF8.String.encodeString
* X.H.DynamicLog.dynamicLogString therefore returned such an encoded
String, so one could use it directly in a hPutStrLn, but literal
Strings wouldn't work
* xmonadPropLog' also expected an encoded String to make it easier to
use together with dynamicLogString, again breaking usage with String
literals and other normal unicode Strings
Then in 1d0eaddc25 Sibi fixed spawnPipe to return a handle usable with
normal Strings, which then obviously broke the entire cascade. But,
instead of using the opportunity to remove all the ugly workarounds, he
decided to add some more on top, so now spawnPipe with dynamicLogString
outputs doubly encoded UTF-8 and xmobar has a hack to strip this double
encoding (https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/pull/482), which only works
when XFT is in use and breaks on some long unicode codepoints. :-(
There is a better way: make everything just use normal Strings and only
encode when it goes out the wire. This means dynamicLogString can be
freely mixed with String literals, manual uses of xmonadPropLog' don't
need encodeString, and everything just works nicely.
This obviously breaks configs that used some of these pieces in
isolation (like mine), but that's a small price to pay. After all, right
now all users of spawnPipe/dynamicLogString are getting doubly encoded
UTF-8 which might or might not work in xmobar and probably breaks
horribly everywhere else, so this fix should be a clear improvement. :-)
Fixes: 1d0eaddc25 ("Make spawnPipe to use system's locale encoding")
Fixes: https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/issues/377
Fixes: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/476
Related: https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/pull/334
Related: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/pull/482
This makes it easier to see the differences between these functions,
makes it less likely someone will change one and not the others, etc.
More importantly, the documentation doesn't contain circular references
any more. :-)
Also, let's just use hSetEncoding. The concern of this being stateful
and theoretically having something written in the wrong encoding is
pointless: nobody has the handle until we return it from `spawnPipe'`.
(This also means that spawnPipeWithNoEncoding is now a text handle that
possibly does newline translation, just with char8 encoding. There
should be no difference in practice.)
Fixes: 8b2bd3ae5c ("Add new variants of spawnPipe functions with encoding support")
