CHANGES.md

Change Log / Release Notes

0.14 (Not Yet)

Breaking Changes

• Adding handling of modifySpacing message in smartSpacing and smartSpacingWithEdge layout modifier

• XMonad.Actions.GridSelect

  • Added field gs_bordercolor to GSConfig to specify border color.

• ewmh function from X.H.EwmhDesktops will use manageHook for handling activated window. That means, actions, which you don't want to happen on activated windows, should be guarded by

  not <$> activated
  

  predicate. By default, with empty ManageHook, window activation will do nothing.

  Also, you can use regular 'ManageHook' combinators for changing window activation behavior.

• XMonad.Layout.Minimize

  Though the interface it offers is quite similar, this module has been almost completely rewritten. The new XMonad.Actions.Minimize contains several functions that allow interaction with minimization window state. If you are using this module, you must upgrade your configuration to import X.A.Minimize and use maximizeWindow and withLastMinimized instead of sending messages to Minimized layout. XMonad.Hooks.RestoreMinimized has been completely deprecated, and its functions have no effect.

• XMonad.Prompt.Unicode

  • unicodePrompt :: String -> XPConfig -> X () now additionally takes a filepath to the UnicodeData.txt file containing unicode data.

New Modules

• XMonad.Hooks.Focus

  A new module extending ManageHook EDSL to work on focused windows and current workspace.

  This module will enable window activation (_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW) and apply manageHook to activated window too. Thus, it may lead to unexpected results, when manageHook previously working only for new windows, start working for activated windows too. It may be solved, by adding not <$> activated before those part of manageHook, which should not be called for activated windows. But this lifts manageHook into FocusHook and it needs to be converted back later using manageFocus.

• XMonad.Actions.CycleWorkspaceByScreen

  A new module that allows cycling through previously viewed workspaces in the order they were viewed most recently on the screen where cycling is taking place.

  Also provides the repeatableAction helper function which can be used to build actions that can be repeated while a modifier key is held down.

• XMonad.Utils.SessionStart

  A new module that allows to query if this is the first time xmonad is started of the session, or a xmonad restart.

  Currently needs manual setting of the session start flag. This could be automated when this moves to the core repository.

Bug Fixes and Minor Changes

• XMonad.Layout.Gaps

  Extended the sendMessage interface with ModifyGaps to allow arbitrary modifications to the GapSpec.

• XMonad.Actions.Navigation2D

  Generalised (and hence deprecated) hybridNavigation to hybridOf.

• XMonad.Layout.LayoutHints

  Preserve the window order of the modified layout, except for the focused window that is placed on top. This fixes an issue where the border of the focused window in certain situations could be rendered below borders of unfocused windows. It also has a lower risk of interfering with the modified layout.

• XMonad.Layout.MultiColumns

  The focused window is placed above the other windows if they would be made to overlap due to a layout modifier. (As long as it preserves the window order.)

• XMonad.Actions.GridSelect

  • The vertical centring of text in each cell has been improved.

• XMonad.Actions.SpawnOn

  • Bind windows spawns by child processes of the original window to the same workspace as the original window.

• XMonad.Util.WindowProperties

  • Added the ability to test if a window has a tag from XMonad.Actions.TagWindows

• XMonad.Layout.Magnifier

  • Handle IncMasterN messages.

• XMonad.Util.EZConfig

  • Can now parse Latin1 keys, to better accommodate users with non-US keyboards.

• XMonad.Actions.Submap

  Establish pointer grab to avoid freezing X, when button press occurs after submap key press. And terminate submap at button press in the same way, as we do for wrong key press.

• XMonad.Hooks.SetWMName

  Add function getWMName.

• XMonad.Hooks.ManageHelpers

  Make type of ManageHook combinators more general.

• XMonad.Prompt

  Export insertString.

• XMonad.Prompt.Window

  • New function: windowMultiPrompt for using mkXPromptWithModes with window prompts.

• XMonad.Hooks.WorkspaceHistory

  • Now supports per screen history.

• XMonad.Layout.ComboP

  • New PartitionWins message to re-partition all windows into the configured sub-layouts. Useful when window properties have changed and you want to re-sort windows into the appropriate sub-layout.

• XMonad.Actions.Minimize

  • Now has withFirstMinimized and withFirstMinimized' so you can perform actions with both the last and first minimized windows easily.

• XMonad.Config.Gnome

  • Update logout key combination (modm+shift+Q) to work with modern

• XMonad.Prompt.Pass

  • New function passTypePrompt which uses xdotool to type in a password from the store, bypassing the clipboard.
  • Now handles password labels with spaces and special characters inside them.

• XMonad.Prompt.Unicode

  • Persist unicode data cache across XMonad instances due to ExtensibleState now used instead of unsafePerformIO.
  • typeUnicodePrompt :: String -> XPConfig -> X () provided to insert the Unicode character via xdotool instead of copying it to the paste buffer.
  • mkUnicodePrompt :: String -> [String] -> String -> XPConfig -> X () acts as a generic function to pass the selected Unicode character to any program.

0.13 (February 10, 2017)

Breaking Changes

• The type of completionKey (of XPConfig record) has been changed from KeySym to (KeyMask, KeySym). The default value for this is still bound to the Tab key.

• New constructor CenteredAt Rational Rational added for XMonad.Prompt.XPPosition.

• XMonad.Prompt now stores its history file in the XMonad cache directory in a file named prompt-history.

New Modules

• XMonad.Layout.SortedLayout

  A new LayoutModifier that sorts a given layout by a list of properties. The order of properties in the list determines the order of windows in the final layout. Any unmatched windows go to the end of the order.

• XMonad.Prompt.Unicode

  A prompt to search a unicode character by its name, and put it into the clipboard.

• XMonad.Util.Ungrab

  Release xmonad's keyboard and pointer grabs immediately, so screen grabbers and lock utilities, etc. will work. Replaces the short sleep hackaround.

• XMonad.Util.Loggers.NamedScratchpad

  A collection of Loggers (see XMonad.Util.Loggers) for NamedScratchpads (see XMonad.Util.NamedScratchpad).

• XMonad.Util.NoTaskbar

  Utility function and ManageHook to mark a window to be ignored by EWMH taskbars and pagers. Useful for NamedScratchpad windows, since you will usually be taken to the NSP workspace by them.

Bug Fixes and Minor Changes

• XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks,

  • Fix a very annoying bug where taskbars/docs would be covered by windows.

  • Also fix a bug that caused certain Gtk and Qt application to have issues displaying menus and popups.

• XMonad.Layout.LayoutBuilder

  Merge all functionality from XMonad.Layout.LayoutBuilderP into XMonad.Layout.LayoutBuilder.

• XMonad.Actions.WindowGo

  • Fix raiseNextMaybe cycling between 2 workspaces only.

• XMonad.Actions.UpdatePointer

  • Fix bug when cursor gets stuck in one of the corners.

• XMonad.Actions.DynamicProjects

  • Switching away from a dynamic project that contains no windows automatically deletes that project's workspace.

    The project itself was already being deleted, this just deletes the workspace created for it as well.

  • Added function to change the working directory (changeProjectDirPrompt)

  • All of the prompts are now multiple mode prompts. Try using the changeModeKey in a prompt and see what happens!

0.12 (December 14, 2015)

Breaking Changes

• XMonad.Actions.UpdatePointer.updatePointer arguments were changed. This allows including aspects of both of the TowardsCentre and Relative methods. To keep the same behavior, replace the entry in the left column with the entry on the right:

  < 0.12	>= 0.12
  updatePointer Nearest	updatePointer (0.5, 0.5) (1,1)
  updatePointer (Relative x y)	updatePointer (x,y) (0,0)
  updatePointer (TowardsCentre x y)	updatePointer (0.5,0.5) (x,y)

New Modules

• XMonad.Actions.AfterDrag

  Perform an action after the current mouse drag is completed.

• XMonad.Actions.DynamicProjects

  Imbues workspaces with additional features so they can be treated as individual project areas.

• XMonad.Actions.LinkWorkspaces

  Provides bindings to add and delete links between workspaces. It is aimed at providing useful links between workspaces in a multihead setup. Linked workspaces are viewed at the same time.

• XMonad.Config.Bepo

  This module fixes some of the keybindings for the francophone among you who use a BEPO keyboard layout. Based on XMonad.Config.Azerty

• XMonad.Config.Dmwit

  Daniel Wagner's configuration.

• XMonad.Config.Mate

  This module provides a config suitable for use with the MATE desktop environment.

• XMonad.Config.Prime

  A draft of a brand new config syntax for xmonad.

• XMonad.Hooks.DynamicProperty

  Module to apply a ManageHook to an already-mapped window when a property changes. This would commonly be used to match browser windows by title, since the final title will only be set after (a) the window is mapped, (b) its document has been loaded, (c) all load-time scripts have run.

• XMonad.Hooks.ManageDebug

  A manageHook and associated logHook for debugging ManageHooks. Simplest usage: wrap your xmonad config in the debugManageHook combinator. Or use debugManageHookOn for a triggerable version, specifying the triggering key sequence in XMonad.Util.EZConfig syntax. Or use the individual hooks in whatever way you see fit.

• XMonad.Hooks.WallpaperSetter

  Log hook which changes the wallpapers depending on visible workspaces.

• XMonad.Hooks.WorkspaceHistory

  Keeps track of workspace viewing order.

• XMonad.Layout.AvoidFloats

  Find a maximum empty rectangle around floating windows and use that area to display non-floating windows.

• XMonad.Layout.BinarySpacePartition

  Layout where new windows will split the focused window in half, based off of BSPWM.

• XMonad.Layout.Dwindle

  Three layouts: The first, Spiral, is a reimplementation of XMonad.Layout.Spiral.spiral with, at least to me, more intuitive semantics. The second, Dwindle, is inspired by a similar layout in awesome and produces the same sequence of decreasing window sizes as Spiral but pushes the smallest windows into a screen corner rather than the centre. The third, Squeeze arranges all windows in one row or in one column, with geometrically decreasing sizes.

• XMonad.Layout.Hidden

  Similar to XMonad.Layout.Minimize but completely removes windows from the window set so XMonad.Layout.BoringWindows isn't necessary. Perfect companion to XMonad.Layout.BinarySpacePartition since it can be used to move windows to another part of the BSP tree.

• XMonad.Layout.IfMax

  Provides IfMax layout, which will run one layout if there are maximum N windows on workspace, and another layout, when number of windows is greater than N.

• XMonad.Layout.PerScreen

  Configure layouts based on the width of your screen; use your favorite multi-column layout for wide screens and a full-screen layout for small ones.

• XMonad.Layout.Stoppable

  This module implements a special kind of layout modifier, which when applied to a layout, causes xmonad to stop all non-visible processes. In a way, this is a sledge-hammer for applications that drain power. For example, given a web browser on a stoppable workspace, once the workspace is hidden the web browser will be stopped.

• XMonad.Prompt.ConfirmPrompt

  A module for setting up simple confirmation prompts for keybindings.

• XMonad.Prompt.Pass

  This module provides 3 XMonad.Prompts to ease passwords manipulation (generate, read, remove) via pass.

• XMonad.Util.RemoteWindows

  This module implements a proper way of finding out whether the window is remote or local.

• XMonad.Util.SpawnNamedPipe

  A module for spawning a pipe whose Handle lives in the xmonad state.

• XMonad.Util.WindowState

  Functions for saving per-window data.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Fix issue #9: XMonad.Prompt.Shell searchPredicate is ignored, defaults to isPrefixOf

• Fix moveHistory when alwaysHighlight is enabled

• XMonad.Actions.DynamicWorkspaceGroups now exports addRawWSGroup

• Side tabs were added to the tabbed layout

• XMonad/Layout/IndependentScreens now exports marshallSort

• XMonad/Hooks/UrgencyHook now exports clearUrgency

• Exceptions are now caught when finding commands on PATH in Prompt.Shell

• Switched to Data.Default wherever possible

• XMonad.Layout.IndependentScreens now exports whenCurrentOn

• XMonad.Util.NamedActions now exports addDescrKeys'

• EWMH DEMANDS_ATTENTION support added to UrgencyHook

• New useTransientFor modifier in XMonad.Layout.TrackFloating

• Added the ability to remove arbitrary workspaces

0.9 (October 26, 2009)

Updates that Require Changes in xmonad.hs

• XMonad.Hooks.EwmhDesktops no longer uses layoutHook, the ewmhDesktopsLayout modifier has been removed from xmonad-contrib. It uses logHook, handleEventHook, and startupHook instead and provides a convenient function ewmh to add EWMH support to a defaultConfig.

• Most DynamicLog users can continue with configs unchanged, but users of the quickbar functions xmobar or dzen will need to change xmonad.hs: their types have changed to allow easier composition with other XConfig modifiers. The dynamicLogDzen and dynamicLogXmobar functions have been removed.

• WindowGo or safeSpawn users may need to change command lines due to safeSpawn changes.

• People explicitly referencing the "SP" scratchpad workspace should change it to "NSP" which is also used by the new Util.NamedScratchpad module.

• (Optional) People who explicitly use swapMaster in key or mouse bindings should change it to shiftMaster. It's the current default used where swapMaster had been used previously. It works better than swapMaster when using floating and tiled windows together on the same workspace.

See Also

https://wiki.haskell.org/Xmonad/Notable_changes_since_0.8