2022-09-03
xmonad and xmonad-contrib 0.17.1 are available

New versions of xmonad and xmonad-contrib have been released. Check out our download page for instructions on where to get them.

About 10 months after the big release of 0.17.0, we—as promised—picked up the pace a bit and are back with a new minor version; don’t let that fool you though, this one still packs a punch! Plus, we now sport a brand-new logo, courtesy of Hans Heintze.

As this is a minor release, we tried to keep the breaking changes to a minimum (xmonad core does not have a single one!) However, some were unavoidable for xmonad-contrib, so be sure to at least glance at the release notes!

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Table of Contents

• xmonad 0.17.1
  • Enhancements
  • Bug Fixes
• xmonad-contrib 0.17.1
  • Breaking Changes
  • New Modules
  • Bug Fixes and Minor Changes

xmonad 0.17.1

This release includes 32 non-merge commits by 6 contributors! For a full summary of all the changes, see xmonad’s CHANGES.md file.

Enhancements

• Added custom cursor shapes for resizing and moving windows.

Bug Fixes

• Change the main loop to try to avoid GHC bug 21708 on systems running GHC 9.2 up to version 9.2.3. The issue has been fixed in GHC 9.2.4 and all later releases.

• Fixed border color of windows with alpha channel. Now all windows have the same opaque border color.

xmonad-contrib 0.17.1

This release includes 212 non-merge commits by 32 contributors! For a full summary of all the changes, see xmonad-contrib’s CHANGES.md file.

Breaking Changes

• XMonad.Config.{Arossato,Dmwit,Droundy,Monad,Prime,Saegesser,Sjanssen}: deprecated all of these modules. The user-specific configuration modules may still be found on the website.

• XMonad.Util.NamedScratchpad: scratchpads are now only based on the argument given to namedScratchpadManageHook; all other scratchpad arguments are, while still present, ignored. Users passing all of their scratchpads to functions like namedScratchpadAction (as is shown in the module’s documentation) should not notice any difference in behaviour.

• XMonad.Util.DynamicScratchpads: deprecated the module; use the new dynamic scratchpad functionality of XMonad.Util.NamedScratchpad instead.

• XMonad.Hooks.UrgencyHook: deprecated urgencyConfig; use def from the new Default instance of UrgencyConfig instead.

New Modules

• XMonad.Hooks.Modal: a module implementing modal keybindings for XMonad.

• XMonad.Layout.SideBorderDecoration: this module allows for having a configurable border position around windows; i.e., it can move the border to either cardinal direction.

• XMonad.Actions.PerLayoutKeys: a new module for customising keybindings on a per-layout basis.

• XMonad.Actions.RepeatAction: a module for adding a keybinding to repeat the last action, similar to Vim’s . or Emacs’s dot-mode.

Bug Fixes and Minor Changes

• XMonad.Prompt and XMonad.Actions.TreeSelect: added xft-based font fallback support. This may be used by appending other fonts to the given string: xft:iosevka-11,FontAwesome-9. Note that this requires xmonad-contrib to be compiled with X11-xft version 0.3.4 or higher.

• XMonad.Util.Run: added an EDSL—particularly geared towards programs like terminals or Emacs—to spawn processes from XMonad in a compositional way.

• XMonad.Util.Hacks: added trayerPaddingXmobarEventHook (plus generic variants for other trays/panels) to communicate trayer resize events to xmobar so that padding space may be reserved on xmobar for the tray. Requires xmobar version 0.40 or higher.

• XMonad.Prompt.OrgMode: added the ability to specify alphabetic (#A, #B, and #C) priorities at the end of the input note.

• XMonad.Actions.Submap: added visualSubmap to visualise the available keys and their actions when inside a submap.

• XMonad.Util.NamedScratchpad: added support for dynamic scratchpads in the form of dynamicNSPAction and toggleDynamicNSP.

• XMonad.Hooks.WindowSwallowing: fixed windows getting lost when used in conjunction with smartBorders and a single window.