Comments on: Pimp Your XMonad #3: Prompt

By: retroj

retroj — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:02:20 +0000

helpful post.. autoComplete was exactly what i was looking for, for use with workspacePrompt. What about key bindings within prompts? I would love to be able to have C-i work as a tab key in prompts.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:53:32 +0000

Thanks for the post (from Argentina)!
Althought I’m starting with Haskell/Xmonad, this shows me that I choosed well a “mouse killer” window manager.

By: bradenshep

bradenshep — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:44:23 +0000

I’m not sure how I’d handle this in general.

First, though, I’d check that the Twitter update command really can’t take the status on the command line using some flag. That seems like an obvious feature to me, but maybe it can’t.

If it can’t, since we’re talking about a short bit of text here, you could get away with
echo "Twitter text here" | twitter_update

Like I said, I don’t know what I’d do in the general case of multi-line text. I guess at that point you’re typing so much in you might as well open a proper xterm.

By: Dw

Dw — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:28:25 +0000

Hello,

Great post. However, I have one nagging question: How can I get the user input at a prompt to be passed to a command-line utility.

For instance, I type my hotkey to show the prompt, I type in some text, and it passes that text to a ‘twitter update’ command that updates my twitter status.

I can’t seem to find an example in the config archive or in the API docs.

By: Wei

Wei — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:12:28 +0000

Thanks for your post.
How do I use xft fonts instead of core fonts?
I had something like this in xmonad.hs:
font = “xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=14″

urxvt understands this font name, but xmonad doesn’t seem to. I’ve compiled in xft support for xmonad-contrib.

Thanks!