xmonad-dbus
XMonad DBus monitor application and library to easily connect XMonad with Polybar (by troydm)
xmonad-testing
Stack/cabal setup for testing xmonad* and configurations (by xmonad)
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| xmonad-dbus | xmonad-testing | |
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| 2 | 5 | |
| 22 | 27 | |
| - | - | |
| 3.0 | 0.0 | |
| 9 months ago | about 3 years ago | |
| Haskell | Shell | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
xmonad-dbus
Posts with mentions or reviews of xmonad-dbus.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-05.
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Build script with dbus using stack
I followed the instructions on this post, which sets ~/.xmonad as a stack project. I set xmonad-log (also tried with haskell-dbus) in the stack.yml as an extra-dep However, it is not working for me.
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Updating a module in xmobar
As an aside, you should use the bar you're most comfortable with. Sure most people use xmobar, but the point of xmonad is that you can create your favourite computing environment :) If you prefer polybar then it's not terribly hard to get it to work with xmonad. You can either send what you want down a pipe and let polybar read from that pipe or you can use something like xmonad-dbus to let them talk via dbus.
xmonad-testing
Posts with mentions or reviews of xmonad-testing.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-05.
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Using xmonad-testing as lib
All is well and works properly. Now, however, I would like to switch to the git version of Xmonad by using xmonad-testing. For that I cloned the repo, switched both xmonad & xmonad-contrib branches to master and compiled executable. First of all, if I run the executable with `--version`, I get '0.15', that seems to me not correct. Shouldn't it be 0.16, even though it is not released yet? Second, I am not sure whether I need to somehow install the Git versions as libraries to be able to use new features and to get Vim with haskell-language-server recognize the new features. My configuration is in `~/.xmonad`. I think if I copy the config to the directory where the cloned repos are, it (using the new features) will work...
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Build script with dbus using stack
If don't build via the first method and you want to use a project-like structure as in xmonad-testing then yes, you need a cabal file. There is an example file available in the repo.
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Easiest way to hack using stack or cabal and use local package.
Depending on whether you want to use stack or cabal, there is xmonad-testing, which is a repository that solely exists to show users how to do this! Under build-scripts you can find examples for both stack and cabal (be sure to read the readme for how to use these). If you want to use cabal 3.4 then mind geekosaur's pr for things to work smoothly with the new- style commands which are now the default.
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Xmonad Cabal project
There are some example build scripts that I use that make it super easy.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing xmonad-dbus and xmonad-testing you can also consider the following projects:
xmobar - A minimalistic status bar
haskell-language-server - Official haskell ide support via language server (LSP). Successor of ghcide & haskell-ide-engine.
xmonad-log - DBus monitor for xmonad log events.
linux_notification_center - A notification daemon/center for linux
taffybar - A gtk based status bar for tiling window managers such as XMonad
status-notifier-item - A Haskell implementation of the StatusNotifierItem protocol (https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/StatusNotifierItem/).
gtk-sni-tray - A StatusNotifierHost widget written using the gtk+3 bindings for haskell provided by gi-gtk.
dots - These are my config files and I treasure them