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xmonad-contrib v0.14 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-07-31 // over 5 years ago

  • 💥 Breaking Changes

    • XMonad.Layout.Spacing

      Rewrite XMonad.Layout.Spacing. Borders are no longer uniform but composed of four sides each with its own border width. The screen and window borders are now separate and can be independently toggled on/off. The screen border examines the window/rectangle list resulting from 'runLayout' rather than the stack, which makes it compatible with layouts such as the builtin Full. The child layout will always be called with the screen border. If only a single window is displayed (and smartBorder enabled), it will be expanded into the original layout rectangle. Windows that are displayed but not part of the stack, such as those created by 'XMonad.Layout.Decoration', will be shifted out of the way, but not scaled (not possible for windows created by XMonad). This isn't perfect, so you might want to disable Spacing on such layouts.

    • XMonad.Util.SpawnOnce

      • Added spawnOnOnce, spawnNOnOnce and spawnAndDoOnce. These are useful in startup hooks to shift spawned windows to a specific workspace.

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

    • XMonad.Actions.GridSelect

      • Added field gs_bordercolor to GSConfig to specify border color.

    • 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.

    • XMonad.Actions.PhysicalScreens

      getScreen, viewScreen, sendToScreen, onNextNeighbour, onPrevNeighbour now need a extra parameter of type ScreenComparator. This allow the user to specify how he want his screen to be ordered default value are:

      • def(same as verticalScreenOrderer) will keep previous behavior
      • verticalScreenOrderer
      • horizontalScreenOrderer

      One can build his custom ScreenOrderer using:

      • screenComparatorById (allow to order by Xinerama id)
      • screenComparatorByRectangle (allow to order by screen coordonate)
      • ScreenComparator (allow to mix ordering by screen coordonate and xinerama id)

    • XMonad.Util.WorkspaceCompare

      getXineramaPhysicalWsCompare now need a extra argument of type ScreenComparator defined in XMonad.Actions.PhysicalScreens (see changelog of this module for more information)

    • XMonad.Hooks.EwmhDesktops

      • Simplify ewmhDesktopsLogHookCustom, and remove the gnome-panel specific remapping of all visible windows to the active workspace (#216).
      • Handle workspace renames that might be occuring in the custom function that is provided to ewmhDesktopsLogHookCustom.

    • XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog

      • Support xmobar's <action> and <raw> tags; see xmobarAction and xmobarRaw.

    • XMonad.Layout.NoBorders

      The layout now maintains a list of windows that never have borders, and a list of windows that always have borders. Use BorderMessage to manage these lists and the accompanying event hook (borderEventHook) to remove destroyed windows from them. Also provides the hasBorder manage hook.

      Two new conditions have been added to Ambiguity: OnlyLayoutFloat and OnlyLayoutFloatBelow; OnlyFloat was renamed to OnlyScreenFloat. See the documentation for more information.

      The type signature of hiddens was changed to accept a new Rectangle parameter representing the bounds of the parent layout, placed after the WindowSet parameter. Anyone defining a new instance of SetsAmbiguous will need to update their configuration. For example, replace "hiddens amb wset mst wrs =" either with "hiddens amb wset _ mst wrs =" or to make use of the new parameter with "hiddens amb wset lr mst wrs =".

    • XMonad.Actions.MessageFeedback

      • Follow the naming conventions of XMonad.Operations. Functions returning X () are named regularly (previously these ended in underscore) while those returning X Bool are suffixed with an uppercase 'B'.
      • Provide all X Bool and SomeMessage variations for sendMessage and sendMessageWithNoRefresh, not just sendMessageWithNoRefreshToCurrent (renamed from send).
      • The new tryInOrderB and tryMessageB functions accept a parameter of type SomeMessage -> X Bool, which means you are no longer constrained to the behavior of the sendMessageWithNoRefreshToCurrent dispatcher.
      • The send*Messages* family of funtions allows for sequencing arbitrary sets of messages with minimal refresh. It makes little sense for these functions to support custom message dispatchers.
      • Remain backwards compatible. Maintain deprecated aliases of all renamed functions:
        • send -> sendMessageWithNoRefreshToCurrentB
        • sendSM -> sendSomeMessageWithNoRefreshToCurrentB
        • sendSM_ -> sendSomeMessageWithNoRefreshToCurrent
        • tryInOrder -> tryInOrderWithNoRefreshToCurrentB
        • tryInOrder_ -> tryInOrderWithNoRefreshToCurrent
        • tryMessage -> tryMessageWithNoRefreshToCurrentB
        • tryMessage_ -> tryMessageWithNoRefreshToCurrent

    🆕 New Modules

    • XMonad.Layout.MultiToggle.TabBarDecoration

      Provides a simple transformer for use with XMonad.Layout.MultiToggle to dynamically toggle XMonad.Layout.TabBarDecoration.

    • XMonad.Hooks.RefocusLast

      Provides hooks and actions that keep track of recently focused windows on a per workspace basis and automatically refocus the last window on loss of the current (if appropriate as determined by user specified criteria).

    • XMonad.Layout.StateFull

      Provides StateFull: a stateful form of Full that does not misbehave when floats are focused, and the FocusTracking layout transformer by means of which StateFull is implemented. FocusTracking simply holds onto the last true focus it was given and continues to use it as the focus for the transformed layout until it sees another. It can be used to improve the behaviour of a child layout that has not been given the focused window.

    • XMonad.Actions.SwapPromote

      Module for tracking master window history per workspace, and associated functions for manipulating the stack using such history.

    • 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.Prompt.FuzzyMatch

      Provides a predicate fuzzyMatch that is much more lenient in matching completions in XMonad.Prompt than the default prefix match. Also provides a function fuzzySort that allows sorting the fuzzy matches by "how well" they match.

    • 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.

    • XMonad.Layout.MultiDishes

      A new layout based on Dishes, however it accepts additional configuration to allow multiple windows within a single stack.

    • XMonad.Util.Rectangle

      A new module for handling pixel rectangles.

    • XMonad.Layout.BinaryColumn

      A new module which provides a simple grid layout, halving the window sizes of each window after master.

      This is similar to Column, but splits the window in a way that maintains window sizes upon adding & removing windows as well as the option to specify a minimum window size.

    🐛 Bug Fixes and Minor Changes

    • XMonad.Layout.Grid

      Fix as per issue #223; Grid will no longer calculate more columns than there are windows.

    • XMonad.Hooks.FadeWindows

      Added support for GHC version 8.4.x by adding a Semigroup instance for Monoids

    • XMonad.Hooks.WallpaperSetter

      Added support for GHC version 8.4.x by adding a Semigroup instance for Monoids

    • XMonad.Hooks.Mosaic

      Added support for GHC version 8.4.x by adding a Semigroup instance for Monoids

    • XMonad.Actions.Navigation2D

      Added sideNavigation and a parameterised variant, providing a navigation strategy with fewer quirks for tiled layouts using X.L.Spacing.

    • XMonad.Layout.Fullscreen

      The fullscreen layouts will now not render any window that is totally obscured by fullscreen windows.

    • XMonad.Layout.Gaps

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

    • XMonad.Layout.Groups

      Added a new ModifyX message type that allows the modifying function to return values in the X monad.

    • 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.
      • New manage hook doSink for sinking windows (as upposed to the doFloat manage hook)

    • 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.
      • New function passEditPrompt for editing a password from the store.
      • 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.

    • XMonad.Prompt.AppendFile

      • New function appendFilePrompt' which allows for transformation of the string passed by a user before writing to a file.

    • XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog

      • Added a new function dzenWithFlags which allows specifying the arguments passed to dzen2 invocation. The behaviour of current dzen function is unchanged.

    • XMonad.Util.Dzen

      • Now provides functions fgColor and bgColor to specify foreground and background color, align and slaveAlign to set text alignment, and lineCount to enable a second (slave) window that displays lines beyond the initial (title) one.

    • XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog

      • Added optional ppVisibleNoWindows to differentiate between empty and non-empty visible workspaces in pretty printing.

    • XMonad.Actions.DynamicWorkspaceOrder

      • Added updateName and removeName to better control ordering when workspace names are changed or workspaces are removed.

    • XMonad.Config.Azerty

      • Added belgianConfig and belgianKeys to support Belgian AZERTY keyboards, which are slightly different from the French ones in the top row.