dot/.config/xmonad

Phil's xmonad config

• Table of Contents
• Info
• Imports
  • Base
  • Actions
  • Data
  • Hooks
  • Layouts
  • Layout Modifiers
  • XMonad.Prompt
  • Utilities
  • Colorschemes
• Window Management and Layouts
  • Border Width and Spacing
  • Layouts
  • Theming for tabs (sub)layout
  • Clickable workspaces in XMobar
  • Workspace definitions
  • Manage Hook
  • Startup Hook
    • Settings applied on login
      • Keyboard layout
      • Mount encrypted container
      • Wallpaper
      • Trayer
      • Daemons
        • Dunst
        • Activity Watch
        • Emacs
    • Startup applications
• Main XMonad loop
  • XMobar
  • XMonad & manageHook
    • handleEventHook
    • Pulling settings together
    • logHook
      • Colors/ clicks
      • Window Title, Separators, etc.
• Keybinds
  • Workspaces
  • Window focus and movement
  • Sublayouts
  • XMonad and apps
    • XMonad
    • Some common keybinds:
    • XMonad.Prompt.OrgMode
    • Timestamp chords
    • Multimedia keys
    • Mouse wheel to switch workspaces.

Table of Contents   toc

• Info

• Imports

  • Base
  • Actions
  • Data
  • Hooks
  • Layouts
  • Layout Modifiers
  • XMonad.Prompt
  • Utilities
  • Colorschemes

• Window Management and Layouts

  • Border Width and Spacing
  • Layouts
  • Theming for tabs (sub)layout
  • Clickable workspaces in XMobar
  • Workspace definitions
  • Manage Hook
  • Startup Hook

• Main XMonad loop

  • XMobar
  • XMonad & manageHook

• Keybinds

  • Workspaces
  • Window focus and movement
  • Sublayouts
  • XMonad and apps

Info

This is my XMonad config. It's heavily based on Derek Taylor's config from DTOS.

The notable things I changed are noted in their specific sections.

Imports

Base

import XMonad
import System.Directory
import System.IO (hClose, hPutStr, hPutStrLn)
import System.Exit (exitSuccess)
import qualified XMonad.StackSet as W

Actions

import XMonad.Actions.CopyWindow (kill1)
import XMonad.Actions.CycleWS
import XMonad.Actions.GridSelect
import XMonad.Actions.MouseResize
import XMonad.Actions.Promote
import XMonad.Actions.RotSlaves (rotSlavesDown, rotAllDown)
import XMonad.Actions.SpawnOn
import XMonad.Actions.UpdatePointer
import XMonad.Actions.WindowGo (runOrRaise)
import XMonad.Actions.WithAll (sinkAll, killAll)
import qualified XMonad.Actions.Search as S

Data

import Data.Char (isSpace, toUpper)
import Data.Maybe (fromJust)
import Data.Monoid
import Data.Maybe (isJust)
import Data.Tree
import qualified Data.Map as M

Hooks

import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog (dynamicLogWithPP, wrap, xmobarPP, xmobarColor, shorten, PP(..))
import XMonad.Hooks.EwmhDesktops  -- for some fullscreen events, also for xcomposite in obs.
import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks (avoidStruts, docks, manageDocks, ToggleStruts(..))
import XMonad.Hooks.ManageHelpers (isFullscreen, doFullFloat, doCenterFloat)
import XMonad.Hooks.ServerMode
import XMonad.Hooks.SetWMName
import XMonad.Hooks.StatusBar
import XMonad.Hooks.StatusBar.PP
import XMonad.Hooks.WindowSwallowing
import XMonad.Hooks.WorkspaceHistory

Layouts

import XMonad.Layout.Accordion
import XMonad.Layout.GridVariants (Grid(Grid))
import XMonad.Layout.SimplestFloat
import XMonad.Layout.Spiral
import XMonad.Layout.ResizableTile
import XMonad.Layout.Tabbed
import XMonad.Layout.ThreeColumns

Layout Modifiers

import XMonad.Layout.LayoutModifier
import XMonad.Layout.LimitWindows (limitWindows, increaseLimit, decreaseLimit)
import XMonad.Layout.MultiToggle (mkToggle, single, EOT(EOT), (??))
import XMonad.Layout.MultiToggle.Instances (StdTransformers(NBFULL, MIRROR, NOBORDERS))
import XMonad.Layout.NoBorders
import XMonad.Layout.Renamed
import XMonad.Layout.ShowWName
import XMonad.Layout.Simplest
import XMonad.Layout.Spacing
import XMonad.Layout.SubLayouts
import XMonad.Layout.WindowArranger (windowArrange, WindowArrangerMsg(..))
import XMonad.Layout.WindowNavigation
import qualified XMonad.Layout.ToggleLayouts as T (toggleLayouts, ToggleLayout(Toggle))
import qualified XMonad.Layout.MultiToggle as MT (Toggle(..))

XMonad.Prompt

import XMonad.Prompt
import XMonad.Prompt.OrgMode

Utilities

import XMonad.Util.Dmenu
import XMonad.Util.EZConfig
import XMonad.Util.NamedActions
import XMonad.Util.NamedScratchpad
import XMonad.Util.Run (runProcessWithInput, safeSpawn, spawnPipe)
import XMonad.Util.SpawnOnce
import XMonad.Util.ClickableWorkspaces

Colorschemes

DT's ColorScheme module. Possible choice are:

• DoomOne
• Dracula
• GruvboxDark
• MonokaiPro
• Nord
• OceanicNext
• Palenight
• SolarizedDark
• SolarizedLight
• TomorrowNight

import Colors.DoomOne

Window Management and Layouts

Border Width and Spacing

myBorderWidth :: Dimension
myBorderWidth = 2

windowCount :: X (Maybe String)
windowCount = gets $ Just . show . length . W.integrate' . W.stack . W.workspace . W.current . windowset

--Makes setting the spacingRaw simpler to write. The spacingRaw module adds a configurable amount of space around windows.
mySpacing :: Integer -> l a -> XMonad.Layout.LayoutModifier.ModifiedLayout Spacing l a
mySpacing i = spacingRaw False (Border i i i i) True (Border i i i i) True

Layouts

• limitWindows n sets maximum number of windows displayed for layout.
• mySpacing n sets the gap size around the windows.

tall     = renamed [Replace "tall"]
           $ smartBorders
  --         $ windowNavigation
           $ addTabs shrinkText myTabTheme
           $ subLayout [] (smartBorders Simplest)
           $ mySpacing 8
           $ ResizableTall 1 (3/100) (1/2) []
monocle  = renamed [Replace "monocle"]
           $ smartBorders
           $ windowNavigation
           $ mySpacing 8
           $ addTabs shrinkText myTabTheme
           $ subLayout [] (smartBorders Simplest)
           $ Full
tabs     = renamed [Replace "tabs"]
           -- I cannot add spacing to this layout because it will
           -- add spacing between window and tabs which looks bad.
          $ tabbed shrinkText myTabTheme

Theming for tabs (sub)layout

myTabTheme = def { fontName            = "xft:Iosevka-9"
                 , activeColor         = color15
                 , inactiveColor       = colorBack
                 , activeBorderColor   = color15
                 , inactiveBorderColor = colorFore
                 , activeTextColor     = colorBack
                 , inactiveTextColor   = colorFore }

Clickable workspaces in XMobar

mySB = statusBarProp "xmobar" (clickablePP xmobarPP)

Workspace definitions

myWorkspaces =  ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9",
                 "e",
                 "w", "g", "d", "b", "j", "f", "o", "u",
                 "r", "s", "t", "h", "v", "y", "n", "a", "i", "l",
                 "x", "c", "m", "k", "q", "z", "p"
                ]

myWorkspaceIndices = M.fromList $ zipWith (,) myWorkspaces [1..] -- (,) == \x y -> (x,y)

clickable ws = "<action=xdotool key super+"++show i++">"++ws++"</action>"
    where i = fromJust $ M.lookup ws myWorkspaceIndices

Manage Hook

myManageHook = manageSpawn <> composeAll
  [ className =? "confirm"         --> doFloat
  , className =? "file_progress"   --> doFloat
  , className =? "dialog"          --> doFloat
  , className =? "download"        --> doFloat
  , className =? "error"           --> doFloat
  , className =? "Gimp"            --> doFloat
  , className =? "notification"    --> doFloat
  , className =? "pinentry-gtk-2"  --> doFloat
  , className =? "splash"          --> doFloat
  , className =? "toolbar"         --> doFloat
  , className =? "zoom"            --> doFloat
  , className =? "Yad"             --> doCenterFloat
  , (className =? "firefox" <&&> resource =? "Dialog") --> doFloat  -- Float Firefox Dialog
  , isFullscreen -->  doFullFloat
  ]

Startup Hook

Set the WMName and session type so applications which check for it don't bug out.

Settings applied on login

myStartupHook = do
  setWMName "LG3D"
  spawnOnce "lxsession"

Keyboard layout

I'm Polish, so I type on a Polish layout. I also extensively use the compose key, so I have it handy.

  spawnOnce "setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout pl -option compose:rctrl"

Mount encrypted container

  spawnOnce "gocryptfs ~/.bajsicki enc --extpass lxqt-openssh-askpass"

Wallpaper

Randomize wallpaper. Requires feh. You can change the path to any directory with wallpapers for consistent variety.

  spawnOnce "feh --randomize --bg-fill /usr/share/backgrounds/archlinux/*"

Trayer

Trayer is a system tray, which works well with XMobar. This restarts it every time XMonad is reinitialized to avoid weirdness.

  spawn "killall trayer"  -- kill current trayer on each
  spawn ("sleep 2 && trayer --edge top --align right --widthtype request --padding 6 --SetDockType true --SetPartialStrut true --expand true --monitor 1 --transparent true --alpha 0 " ++ colorTrayer ++ " --height 20")

Daemons

Dunst

Dunst for notifications.

  spawnOnce "dunst"

Activity Watch

I like looking back on the way I spend my time every once in a while. Local time tracking is really helpful, so I run AW in the background.

  spawnOnce "aw-server"
  spawnOnce "aw-watcher-afk"
  spawnOnce "aw-watcher-window"
  spawnOnce "poetry run aw-watcher-spotify"

Emacs

Emacs daemon for emacsclient.

  spawnOnce "/usr/bin/emacs --daemon"

Startup applications

  spawnOn "1" "firefox-developer-edition"
  spawnOn "2" "evolution"
  spawnOn "9" "steam"
  spawnOn "3" "discord"
  spawnOn "6" "google-chrome-stable"
  spawnOn "e" "/usr/bin/emacsclient"
  spawnOn "j" "keepassxc"

Main XMonad loop

main :: IO ()
main = do

XMobar

Launching three instances of xmobar on their monitors.

  xmproc0 <- spawnPipe ("xmobar -x 0 $HOME/.config/xmobar/tomorrow-night-xmobarrc")
  xmproc1 <- spawnPipe ("xmobar -x 1 $HOME/.config/xmobar/tomorrow-night-xmobarrc")
  xmproc2 <- spawnPipe ("xmobar -x 2 $HOME/.config/xmobar/tomorrow-night-xmobarrc")

XMonad & manageHook

  xmonad $ ewmh $ docks $ def
    { manageHook         = myManageHook <+> manageDocks

handleEventHook

This lets alacritty be swallowed when it opens a GUI application.

    , handleEventHook    = swallowEventHook (className =? "Alacritty" <||> className =? "st-256color" <||> className =?  "XTerm") (return True)

Pulling settings together

    , modMask            = mod4Mask
    , terminal           = "alacritty"
    , startupHook        = myStartupHook
    , layoutHook         = avoidStruts
                            $ windowNavigation
                            $ subTabbed
                            $ windowArrange
                            $ mkToggle (NBFULL ?? NOBORDERS ?? EOT)
                              $ withBorder myBorderWidth tall
                                ||| noBorders monocle
                                ||| noBorders tabs
    , workspaces         = myWorkspaces
    , borderWidth        = myBorderWidth
    , normalBorderColor  = colorBack
    , focusedBorderColor = color15

logHook

Define logHook. ppOutput streams into the three instances of XMobar.

    , logHook = dynamicLogWithPP xmobarPP
        { ppOutput = \x -> hPutStrLn xmproc0 x
                        >> hPutStrLn xmproc1 x
                        >> hPutStrLn xmproc2 x

Colors/ clicks

        , ppCurrent = xmobarColor color06 "" . wrap
                      ("<box type=Bottom width=2 mb=1 color=" ++ color06 ++ ">") "</box>"
        , ppVisible = xmobarColor color06 "" . clickable
        , ppHidden = xmobarColor color05 "" . wrap
                     ("<box type=Top width=2 mt=1 color=" ++ color05 ++ ">") "</box>" . clickable
        , ppHiddenNoWindows = xmobarColor color05 "" . clickable

Window Title, Separators, etc.

          -- Title of active window
        , ppTitle = xmobarColor colorFore "" . shorten 48
          -- Separator character
        , ppSep =  "<fc=" ++ color09 ++ "><fn=1> | </fn></fc>"
          -- Urgent workspace
        , ppUrgent = xmobarColor color02 "" . wrap "!" "!"
          -- Adding # of windows on current workspace to the bar
        , ppExtras  = [windowCount]
          -- order of things in xmobar
        , ppOrder  = \(ws:l:t:ex) -> [ws,l]++ex++[t]
        } >> updatePointer (0.5, 0.5) (0.0, 0.0) }

Keybinds

Workspaces

This is the bulk of my changes. I use a lot of workspaces. They're all under two chords. M-s shows a workspace, and M-t throws a window to a workspace. Easy mnemonics, yay.

    `additionalKeysP`
      [ ("M-s 1", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 0))
      , ("M-s 2", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 1))
      , ("M-s 3", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 2))
      , ("M-s 4", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 3))
      , ("M-s 5", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 4))
      , ("M-s 6", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 5))
      , ("M-s 7", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 6))
      , ("M-s 8", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 7))
      , ("M-s 9", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 8))
      , ("M-s e", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 9))
      , ("M-s w", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 10))
      , ("M-s g", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 11))
      , ("M-s d", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 12))
      , ("M-s b", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 13))
      , ("M-s j", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 14))
      , ("M-s f", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 15))
      , ("M-s o", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 16))
      , ("M-s u", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 17))
      , ("M-s r", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 18))
      , ("M-s s", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 19))
      , ("M-s t", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 20))
      , ("M-s h", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 21))
      , ("M-s v", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 22))
      , ("M-s y", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 23))
      , ("M-s n", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 24))
      , ("M-s a", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 25))
      , ("M-s i", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 26))
      , ("M-s l", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 27))
      , ("M-s x", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 28))
      , ("M-s c", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 29))
      , ("M-s m", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 30))
      , ("M-s k", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 31))
      , ("M-s q", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 32))
      , ("M-s z", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 33))
      , ("M-s p", (windows $ W.greedyView $ myWorkspaces !! 34))

      , ("M-t 1", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 0))
      , ("M-t 2", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 1))
      , ("M-t 3", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 2))
      , ("M-t 4", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 3))
      , ("M-t 5", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 4))
      , ("M-t 6", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 5))
      , ("M-t 7", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 6))
      , ("M-t 8", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 7))
      , ("M-t 9", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 8))
      , ("M-t e", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 9))
      , ("M-t w", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 10))
      , ("M-t g", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 11))
      , ("M-t d", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 12))
      , ("M-t b", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 13))
      , ("M-t j", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 14))
      , ("M-t f", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 15))
      , ("M-t o", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 16))
      , ("M-t u", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 17))
      , ("M-t r", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 18))
      , ("M-t s", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 19))
      , ("M-t t", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 20))
      , ("M-t h", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 21))
      , ("M-t v", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 22))
      , ("M-t y", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 23))
      , ("M-t n", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 24))
      , ("M-t a", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 25))
      , ("M-t i", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 26))
      , ("M-t l", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 27))
      , ("M-t x", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 28))
      , ("M-t c", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 29))
      , ("M-t m", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 30))
      , ("M-t k", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 31))
      , ("M-t q", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 32))
      , ("M-t z", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 33))
      , ("M-t p", (windows $ W.shift $ myWorkspaces !! 34))

Window focus and movement

Pretty self-explanatory. ToggleStruts is fullscreen. sinkAll tiles floating windows.

      , ("M-o",  windows W.focusUp)
      , ("M-a",  windows W.focusDown)

      , ("M-S-o",  windows W.swapUp)
      , ("M-S-a",  windows W.swapDown)

      , ("M-S-y",  windows W.swapMaster)
      , ("M-<Backspace>", promote)

      , ("M-S-,",  rotSlavesDown)
      , ("M-S-.",  rotAllDown)

      , ("M-.", nextScreen)
      , ("M-,", prevScreen)

      , ("M-<Tab>", sendMessage NextLayout)
      , ("M-f", sendMessage (MT.Toggle NBFULL) >> sendMessage ToggleStruts)

      , ("M-y", sendMessage Shrink)
      , ("M-l", sendMessage Expand)
      , ("M-b", sinkAll)

Sublayouts

This lets me 'collect' windows into a tiled group if it starts getting crowded on the screen.

      -- Sublayouts
      -- This is used to push windows to tabbed sublayouts, or pull them out of it.
      , ("C-S-M1-n",sendMessage $ pullGroup L)
      , ("C-S-M1-i",sendMessage $ pullGroup R)
      , ("C-S-M1-o",sendMessage $ pullGroup U)
      , ("C-S-M1-a",sendMessage $ pullGroup D)
      , ("C-S-M1-f",withFocused (sendMessage . MergeAll))
      -- , ("M-C-u",withFocused (sendMessage . UnMerge))
      , ("C-S-M1-u", withFocused (sendMessage . UnMergeAll))
      , ("C-S-M1-j", onGroup W.focusUp')
      , ("C-S-M1-y", onGroup W.focusDown')

XMonad and apps

Notes: I use a ZSA Moonlander so a lot of the 4-5 key sequences are actually just two keys.

XMonad

      , ("C-M1-S-0", sequence_ [spawn "xmonad --restart", spawn "xmonad --recompile"])
      , ("M-S-M1-C-0", io exitSuccess)
      , ("S-C-M1-q",  kill1)
      , ("M-S-C-M1-q", killAll)
      , ("M-d", spawn "rofi -show drun")

Some common keybinds:

      , ("M-e", spawn "emacsclient -c -a 'emacs'")
      , ("M-<Return>", spawn "alacritty")
      , ("M-S-<F11>", spawn "feh --randomize --bg-fill /usr/share/backgrounds/archlinux/*")
      , ("M-<Print>", spawn "dm-maim")
      , ("<Print>", spawn "flameshot gui")

XMonad.Prompt.OrgMode

      , ("M-c i", orgPrompt def "TODO" "~/enc/org/inbox.org")
      , ("M-c l", orgPromptPrimary def "LINK" "~/enc/org/inbox.org")
      , ("M-c n", orgPrompt def "NOTE" "~/enc/org/inbox.org")
      , ("M-c p", orgPromptRefile def "TODO" "~/enc/org/phil.org")

Timestamp chords

For local time, EST, and PST.

      -- Time! Timestamps!
      , ("M-w l", spawn "sleep 0.5 && xdotool type \"$(date +'%Y.%m.%d %H:%M:%S %Z')\"")
      , ("M-w e", spawn "sleep 0.5 && xdotool type \"$(TZ=America/New_York date +'%Y.%m.%d %H:%M:%S %Z')\"")
      , ("M-w m", spawn "sleep 0.5 && xdotool type \"$(TZ=America/Denver date +'%Y.%m.%d %H:%M:%S %Z')\"")

Multimedia keys

      , ("<XF86AudioPlay>", spawn "mpc toggle")
      , ("<XF86AudioPrev>", spawn "mpc prev")
      , ("<XF86AudioNext>", spawn "mpc next")
      , ("<XF86AudioMute>", spawn "amixer set Master toggle")
      , ("<XF86AudioLowerVolume>", spawn "pactl set-sink-volume \"bluez_output.E8_EE_CC_02_F6_8A.1\" -5%")
      , ("<XF86AudioRaiseVolume>", spawn "pactl set-sink-volume \"bluez_output.E8_EE_CC_02_F6_8A.1\" +5%")
      ]

Mouse wheel to switch workspaces.

    `additionalMouseBindings`
      [ ((mod4Mask, button4), \w -> focus w >> prevWS)
      , ((mod4Mask, button5), \w -> focus w >> nextWS)]