arjuna del toso

import XMonad
import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog
import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks
import XMonad.Util.Run(spawnPipe)
import XMonad.Util.EZConfig(additionalKeys)
import System.IO

myManageHook = composeAll
    [ className =? "Gimp"      --> doFloat
    , className =? "Vncviewer" --> doFloat
    ]

main = do
    xmproc <- spawnPipe "xmobar"
    xmonad $ defaultConfig
        { manageHook = manageDocks <+> myManageHook -- make sure to include myManageHook definition from above
                        <+> manageHook defaultConfig
        , layoutHook = avoidStruts  $  layoutHook defaultConfig
        , logHook = dynamicLogWithPP $ xmobarPP
                        { ppOutput = hPutStrLn xmproc
                        , ppTitle = xmobarColor "green" "" . shorten 50
                        }
        , modMask = mod4Mask     -- Rebind Mod to the Windows key
        } `additionalKeys`
        [ ((controlMask, xK_Print), spawn "sleep 0.2; scrot -s")
        , ((0, xK_Print), spawn "scrot")
        ]

Config { font = "-misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
       , bgColor = "black"
       , fgColor = "grey"
       , position = TopW L 85
       , commands = [ Run Network "wlan0" ["-L","0","-H","32","--normal","green","--high","red"] 10
                    , Run Cpu ["-L","15","-H","50","--normal","green","--high","red"] 10
                    , Run Memory ["-t","Mem: %"] 10
                    , Run Swap [] 10
                    , Run Date "%a %b %_d %Y %H:%M:%S" "date" 10
                    , Run StdinReader
                    ]
       , sepChar = "%"
       , alignSep = "}{"
       , template = "%StdinReader% }{ %cpu% | %memory% * %swap% | %wlan0% | %date%"
       }

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=XMonad
Comment=Leightweight tiling window manager
Exec=xmonad.start
Icon=xmonad.png
Type=XSession

#!/bin/bash

xrdb -merge .Xresources

trayer --edge top --align right --SetDockType true --SetPartialStrut true --expand true --width 15 --height 12 --transparent true --tint 0x000000 &

gnome-screensaver

gnome-settings-daemon

if [ -x /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager ] ; then
   sleep 1
   gnome-power-manager
fi

if [ -x /usr/bin/nm-applet ] ; then
   nm-applet --sm-disable &
fi

kmix --keepvisibility

#feh --bg-scale /mnt/archivio/foto/2008-2009-dublino/2009-04-10-stefano/hapenny-desktop.jpg &

exec xmonad

16 Responses to “My configuration of xmonad window manager with xmobar and trayer”

1. Michele BeltrameAugust 13th, 2009 at 2:01 am #

   Hey man!

   I think you don’t live (or used to live) far from where I do, in Maniago.

   Anyhow, I’m fairly new to xmonad and what I basically need is a GTK notification area in order to get rid of the xfce4 panel for the SkyPe notification icon – I don’t really need the icon, a string will do. Do you know of a lightweight software I could use with xmonad which provides that?

   Thanksss,
   Michele.

2. Michele BeltrameAugust 13th, 2009 at 2:06 am #

   Ah, reading better I now see you use “trayer” for that!

   I’ll try this config tomorrow.

   Thanks,
   Michele.

3. Arjuna Del TosoAugust 13th, 2009 at 11:05 am #

   @Michele
   You’re right, I (used to) live in Travesio (and in Maniago I attended the liceo) =).
   Yes, the “trayer” is quite nice and just does the job.

   (Your website http://www.cattlegrind.info/ seems down, is this a temporary problem or maybe a typo in the url?)

   mandi mandi,
   arjuna

4. Michele BeltrameAugust 13th, 2009 at 7:35 pm #

   Er ops, it’s really:

   http://www.cattlegrid.info/

   Mistyped it. For now I posted about an xmonad+xfce integration which I like enough… but I’m really looking into going more minimal, and minimal, and….

   Cheers,
   Michele.

5. mattAugust 23rd, 2009 at 9:21 am #

   It didn’t work for me sadly on arch linux 64. All I got was a weird green background and none of the xmonad key bindings worked. I had to launch a shell to kill xmonad.

6. Arjuna Del TosoAugust 24th, 2009 at 7:32 pm #

   @matt
   strange, maybe try to read the docs on how to use xmonad http://xmonad.org/tour.html (remember that in my config the Mod key is the Windows button on keyboard)
   can be also a copy&paste problem, to be sure the config file is correct try ghci ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs
   you should see something like

   $ ghci ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs
       GHCi, version 6.8.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/    for help
       Loading package base ... linking ... done.
       Ok, modules loaded: Main.
   
       Prelude Main> :t main
       main :: IO ()
   

7. mattAugust 27th, 2009 at 6:55 am #

   Yeah I think there was an issue with xmonad.hs not compiling. I had to strip everything out and am now trying stuff little by little. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I’m using ghc 6.10?

   Now I’m wrestling with how to use trayer. I think I have it docked on the bottom, but I have no idea what it’s doing for me.

8. TbOctober 6th, 2009 at 1:31 pm #

   Hello man,
   Many thanks for the config files.
   They were very helpfull.
   However, I have a problem.
   Despite I use the config files almost identical to yours, there is nowhere an indication of the workspaces.
   ([1] [2] …) have dissapeared compleatly, and I have no idea why.
   As I see from your screenshot I should see something like that.
   Any idea?

9. TbOctober 7th, 2009 at 1:54 am #

   Hallo again,
   After a little while I noticed that I was missing StdinReader.
   Very important.

   Molto grazie

10. Shannon -jj BehrensNovember 14th, 2009 at 3:44 pm #

    Thanks for the post. It helped me get up and running quickly which is exactly what I was looking for. You wrote it on my birthday, so I’m going to call it a birthday present

    After reading your instructions, I decided to integrate xmonad more fully into my normal Ubuntu environment. Hence, I wrote my own instructions here: http://jjinux.blogspot.com/2009/11/linux-my-xmonad-setup.html. I referenced your instructions in my blog post.

    Thanks again!

11. MajNovember 16th, 2009 at 7:31 am #

    Trayer doesn’t seem to exist in Karmic repositories.

    You can get it here:

    http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/t/trayer/trayer_1.0-2_amd64.deb

    For Ubuntu users, when you click on the link it should open in gdebi.

12. MajNovember 16th, 2009 at 7:32 am #

    (For 64 bit, there are packages for other arches in http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/t/trayer/ )

13. RadaNovember 28th, 2009 at 5:52 am #

    Thanks for writing this up. It’s great to have a How To on creating a setup in between “full on gnome with xmonad instead of metacity” and “totally minimal just xmonad”. If people get xsession-errors about xmonad not providing window manager, or it otherwise doesn’t automatically start on login… likely the applications/xmonad.desktop file is missing. Can use:

    $ cat /usr/share/applications/xmonad.desktop
    [Desktop Entry]
    Type=Application
    Encoding=UTF-8
    Name=Xmonad
    Exec=xmonad
    NoDisplay=true
    X-GNOME-WMName=Xmonad
    X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=WindowManager
    X-GNOME-Provides=windowmanager
    X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=false

14. Xmonad on Karmic Koala : expatiari expatriaApril 13th, 2010 at 6:06 am #

    [...] configuration above is a mix and match from these four pages and my own [...]

15. Oli MMay 14th, 2010 at 5:07 am #

    Thanks for posting this! I’m running Ubuntu 10.4 LL & am just getting started with xmonad. This was a big help.

    Just to let you know, I had trouble with your .xmobarrc and your xmonad.start, but I figured it out with some tinkering.

    For .xmobarrc, I just modified the .xmobarrc-example in my docs. Perhaps I’m using a different version of xmobar? (0.9.2)
    For xmonad.start I had to append an & to gnome-power-manager and the nm-applet lines.

    Not completely sure why I had to do those things, but everything works find now.

16. jeff sternJanuary 31st, 2012 at 5:46 am #

    hi, arjuna,

    thank you for this excellent post. it was so helpful. i never
    would have gotten off the ground without someone like you giving me
    the kick-start.

    i am following you along, 2.5 years later, on an ubuntu 64bit v11.10 machine.

    some notes:

    - in my .xmobarrc, i would get an error and it wouldn’t start until i added the lowerOnStart config like so:
    …
    , position = TopW L 85
    , lowerOnStart = False
    …

    - i changed my /usr/local/bin/xmonad.start setup a little bit. i
    removed a lot of stuff and it took me all day to figure out what was
    optional (basically, everything) and what i really needed. like
    Oli M, i had to put an ampersand (&) after nm-applet (and almost all
    processes being started up). and since i could not find a
    “gnome-power-manager” for ubuntu 11.10, i just left that out. here
    it is:

    ========================================================================
    #!/bin/bash

    # /usr/local/bin/xmonad.start

    # all commands are optional except the last (for executing xmonad).

    # notice most commands are put into background (&) so as not to lock up
    # xmonad startup

    # merge any X-windowc settings. (i commented out because I do not have
    # this file currently)
    # xrdb -merge .Xresources

    # non-gnome system tray (lighter)
    trayer –edge top –align right –SetDockType true –SetPartialStrut true –expand true –width 15 –height 12 –transparent true –tint 0×000000 &

    # syndaemon – a program that monitors keyboard activity and disables the
    # touchpad when the keyboard is being used.
    # ubuntu package: syndaemon
    syndaemon -d -t

    # i just changed the background to a solid grey
    xsetroot -solid “#636161″ # Darker gray.

    # network manager applet – because i am mobile and like the wifi
    # and network status controls
    nm-applet –sm-disable &

    # my dropbox daemon
    ~/.dropbox-dist/dropbox start -i &

    # printer applet (usually invisible) when i print
    sh -c “sleep 31 && system-config-printer-applet > /dev/null 2> /dev/null” &

    # notify when ubuntu package updates are available
    update-notifier –startup-delay=60 &

    # start xmonad
    # REQUIRED
    exec xmonad
    ========================================================================

    - i didn’t want the windows key to be my “Mod” key. so for others coming to this page, i did this by
    removing the following line in ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs:
    , modMask = mod4Mask — Rebind Mod to the Windows key
    and, after testing it with ghci as you mentioned earlier,
    $ ghci ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs
    i recompiled:
    $ xmonad –recompile
    and started a new session (exited with mod-shift-q and signed back in)

    - of course, to get trayer and xmobar for ubuntu, one only has to add
    them to the list of packages. i did not add feh, and also dwm -tools
    (for the dmenu when one hits mod-P in xmonad environment) is no
    longer dwm-tools, but suckless-tools. so the command would be:

    $ sudo apt-get install xmonad libghc6-xmonad-contrib-dev libghc6-xmonad-dev suckless-tools trayer xmonad

    QUESTIONS:

    - what do you do for gnome-power-manager in ubuntu 11.10?

    - in a gnome-based window manager, it is easy to reconfigure the power
    button to be a “sleep” or “hibernate” button, instead. how can this
    be done in xmonad without bringing in all the heavy baggage of
    gnome?

    thanks again, arjuna.
    jeff

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