This enables adding the Typeable constraint to LayoutClass itself
(https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/pull/242) which in turn enables
querying the current layout state. That might be useful to e.g. show the
current X.L.WorkspaceDir in xmobar.
This is a preparation commit that fixes the compile failures that would
result in merging that change to xmonad. For this to be generally useful
we first need to merge (and ideally also release) that xmonad change,
and then we'll need some documentation and perhaps a type class to help
find the right LayoutModifier in the tree of ModifiedLayouts and
Choices. That will come later.
This makes it possible to change the workspace directory by sending a
message, which enables automation/scripting not possible with
`changeDir` which displays a prompt.
Example of such usage:
6ea6c52aac/.xmonad/xmonad.hs (L183-L189)
This module contains a modifier that simply sets X11 window border width
to 0 for every window in the layout it modifies. No efforts are made to
bring the border back, which can be annoying if windows are moved to a
different workspace, but it prevents the "border flash" you get with
XMonad.Layout.NoBorders.
Provide a way to perform case-insensitive file / directory completion.
We're using compgen to generate completion candidates, and this is
case-sensitive by default. We can control this by setting the
completion-ignore-case Readline variable prior to invoking compgen. If
we're running a Bash with Readline support, this works as expected.
Otherwise, it has no effect -- completion candidates are still returned,
but compgen generates them in a case-sensitive manner.
To avoid breaking changes, the signatures and behavior of existing
exported functions are unchanged:
- XMonad.Layout.WorkspaceDir.changeDir
- XMonad.Prompt.Directory.directoryPrompt
- XMonad.Prompt.Shell.getShellCompl
New variations of these functions are provided, allowing the caller
to specify the desired case-sensitivity via a ComplCaseSensitivity
argument:
- XMonad.Layout.WorkspaceDir.changeDir'
- XMonad.Prompt.Directory.directoryPrompt'
- XMonad.Prompt.Shell.getShellCompl'
The XMonad.Prompt.Shell exports a couple new functions:
- compgenDirectories
- compgenFiles
We make use of this in XMonad.Prompt.Directory to avoid duplicating the
compgen code.
Provide boring-aware versions of the 'siftUp' and 'siftDown' functions.
Since these actions never affect the position of boring windows, they
work well with layouts that decide which windows are visible/hidden
based on stack position, such as LimitWindows.
The effect is the same, but this seems to express the intent more
clearly, and it will make it easier to factor out the shared behavior
with skipBoringSwapUp.
Provide boring-aware versions of 'swapUp' and 'swapDown'.
Note that 'iterate f x' produces a list whose zeroth element is
'x' prior to any application of 'f'. The 'focusUp' and 'focusDown'
operations reject this iteration by checking in the filter predicate
that the focus actually changed:
filter ((`notElem` W.focus st:bs) . W.focus)
We can't do that for swaps, since our focus never changes, so we drop
the zeroth iteration prior to any predicate-based filtering.
The filter predicate checks whether the window immediately below the
our focus is boring. If so, we've performed an uninteresting upwards
swap and should continue swapping until we either swap past a window
that is not boring or wrap around the top of the stack.
It's particularly important that we accept the wrapping case regardless
of any boring neighbor, otherwise we risk missing a legitimate
non-boring swap. Consider, for example, the following stack:
focus: A
up: []
down: [B, boringC]
A swapUp yields:
focus: A
up: [boringC, B]
down: []
This should be considered non-boring, since the non-boring windows
swapped order: A B -> B A. If we were to reject it, we'd swap A up past
boringC and up again past B, putting us back where we started.
Put another way, if our focus was at the top of the stack, then all
other windows were necessarily below it. We want a swapUp to place our
focus below the lowest non-boring window. A wrap around to the bottom of
the stack guarantees that is the case.
Some users like to include type signatures in their configuration. The
Minimize type constructor was not exported, making it impossible to
write a type signature when using minimize.
With this change, a user can write an xmonad.hs like:
import XMonad
import XMonad.Layout.Minimize (Minimize, minimize)
import XMonad.Layout.LayoutModifier
myLayout :: ModifiedLayout
Minimize
(Choose Tall (Choose (Mirror Tall) Full))
Window
myLayout = minimize $ layoutHook def
main :: IO ()
main = xmonad def { layoutHook = myLayout }
Some users like to include type signatures in their configuration. The
HiddenWindows type constructor was not exported, making it impossible to
write a type signature when using hiddenWindows.
With this change, a user can write an xmonad.hs like:
import XMonad
import XMonad.Layout.Hidden (HiddenWindows, hiddenWindows)
import XMonad.Layout.LayoutModifier
myLayout :: ModifiedLayout
HiddenWindows
(Choose Tall (Choose (Mirror Tall) Full))
Window
myLayout = hiddenWindows $ layoutHook def
main :: IO ()
main = xmonad def { layoutHook = myLayout }
* Rewrite the `refocus` function such that it modifies the windowset
without performing a refresh, instead returning the given layout
object when one is required.
* Message handling which uses `refocus` has been rewritten to less
frequently request unnecessary refreshes.
The 'FullscreenFull' layout modifier hides all windows fully covered by
the fullscreen area, even when no fullscreen windows are present. Fix
this, closing #278. Also switch to 'X.U.Rectangle'.
* Explicitly import pure, (<$>), (<*>) and (<$) from Control.Applicative.
* Use DeriveDataTypeable pragma.
* Remove type signature from pattern synonym.
* Reintroduce the original 'ModifySpacing' type and constructor as
deprecated; the new 'ModifySpacing' type was renamed to
'SpacingModifier'. Suggested by @LSLeary.
* Types 'SpacingWithEdge', 'SmartSpacing', and 'SmartSpacingWithEdge'
have been reintroduced as deprecated type synonyms of 'Spacing'. Work
by @LSLeary.
Also 'borderMap' is now exported; it might be useful.
