2024-08-20
xmonad-contrib 0.18.1 is available

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Table of Contents

• xmonad-contrib 0.18.1
  • Breaking Changes
  • Selected Features and improvements

xmonad-contrib 0.18.1

This release includes 62 non-merge commits by 16 contributors! For a full summary of all the changes, see xmonad-contrib’s CHANGES.md file.

Breaking Changes

• XMonad.Hooks.StatusBars

  • Move status bar functions from the IO to the X monad to allow them to look up information from X, like the screen width. Existing configurations may need to use io from XMonad.Core or liftIO from Control.Monad.IO.Class in order to lift any existing IO StatusBarConfig values into X StatusBarConfig values.

• XMonad.Prompt

  • Added an additional XPConfig argument to historyCompletion and historyCompletionP. Calls like historyCompletionP myFunc should be changed to historyCompletionP myConf myFunc. If no myConf is lying around, def can be used instead.

• XMonad.Actions.GridSelect

  • Added the gs_cancelOnEmptyClick field to GSConfig, which makes mouse clicks into “empty space” cancel the current grid-select. Users explicitly defining their own GSConfig record will have to add this to their definitions. Additionally, the field defaults to True—to retain the old behaviour, set it to False.

Selected Features and improvements

• XMonad.Actions.Profiles

  • A new module to group workspaces by similarity. Useful when one has lots of workspaces and uses only a couple per unit of work.

• XMonad.Hooks.FloatConfigureReq

  • A new module to customize the handling of floating windows’ move/resize/restack requests (ConfigureRequest). Useful as a workaround for some misbehaving client applications (steam, rxvt-unicode, anything that tries to restore absolute position of floats).

• XMonad.Layout.Columns

  • A new layout that organizes windows in columns; allows to move/resize windows in every directions.

• XMonad.Prompt.WindowBringer

  • Added copyMenu, a convenient way to copy a window to the current workspace.

• XMonad.Prompt.OrgMode

  • Added HH:MM-HH:MM and HH:MM+HH syntax to specify time spans.

• XMonad.Hooks.EwmhDesktops

  • Requests for unmanaged windows no longer cause a refresh. This avoids flicker and also fixes disappearing menus in the Steam client and possibly a few other client applications.

    (See also XMonad.Hooks.FloatConfigureReq and/or XMonad.Util.Hacks for additional Steam client workarounds.)

• XMonad.Actions.Submap

  • Added visualSubmapSorted to enable sorting of the keymap descriptions.

• XMonad.Hooks.ScreenCorners

  • Added screen edge support with SCTop, SCBottom, SCLeft and SCRight. Now both corners and edges are supported.