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| 2024-02-14 21:06:54 | <nickstwist> | hi there, i am having a bit of trouble with Xmobar. it's basically that i'd like to use an xmobarColor for xmobarBorder. i keep getting an error when this happens (unfortunately i cannot read this error because of a rendering issue with xmessage) |
| 2024-02-14 21:07:47 | <nickstwist> | i can post the function of myXmobarPP if that would help? if anyone could point me in the right direction, i would really appreciate it :) |
| 2024-02-14 21:07:49 | <nickstwist> | thanks very much |
| 2024-02-14 21:09:32 | <geekosaur> | it should also be in xmonad.error |
| 2024-02-14 21:09:59 | <geekosaur> | er, xmonad.errors |
| 2024-02-14 21:10:25 | <geekosaur> | with XDG it's ~/.local/share/xmonad/xmonad.errors, otherwise ~/.xmonad/xmonad.errors |
| 2024-02-14 21:11:32 | <nickstwist> | ah right. thank you, found it. that will help a lot going forward :) |
| 2024-02-14 21:12:03 | <nickstwist> | i got this error |
| 2024-02-14 21:12:10 | <nickstwist> | xmonad.hs:64:72: error: [GHC-83865] |
| 2024-02-14 21:12:10 | <nickstwist> | • Couldn't match type: String -> String |
| 2024-02-14 21:12:11 | <nickstwist> | with: [Char] |
| 2024-02-14 21:12:11 | <nickstwist> | Expected: String |
| 2024-02-14 21:12:12 | <nickstwist> | Actual: String -> String |
| 2024-02-14 21:12:12 | <nickstwist> | • Probable cause: ‘magenta’ is applied to too few arguments |
| 2024-02-14 21:12:13 | <nickstwist> | In the second argument of ‘xmobarBorder’, namely ‘magenta’ |
| 2024-02-14 21:12:13 | <nickstwist> | In the second argument of ‘(.)’, namely |
| 2024-02-14 21:12:14 | <nickstwist> | ‘xmobarBorder "Bottom" magenta 2’ |
| 2024-02-14 21:12:14 | <nickstwist> | In the expression: |
| 2024-02-14 21:12:15 | <nickstwist> | wrap " [ " " ] " . xmobarBorder "Bottom" magenta 2 |
| 2024-02-14 21:12:15 | <nickstwist> | | |
| 2024-02-14 21:12:16 | <nickstwist> | 64 | , ppVisible = wrap " [ " " ] " . xmobarBorder "Bottom" magenta 2 |
| 2024-02-14 21:12:16 | <nickstwist> | | ^^^^^^^ |
| 2024-02-14 21:12:31 | <nickstwist> | whoops, the carets at the bottom are in the wrong place. they should be pointing at magenta. |
| 2024-02-14 21:12:47 | <nickstwist> | replacing magenta with a string like "#ffffff" works |
| 2024-02-14 21:12:57 | <geekosaur> | please use a pastebin next time |
| 2024-02-14 21:13:00 | <geekosaur> | @where paste |
| 2024-02-14 21:13:00 | <lambdabot> | Help us help you: please paste full code, input and/or output at e.g. https://paste.tomsmeding.com |
| 2024-02-14 21:13:11 | <nickstwist> | oh right. my mistake, sorry about that |
| 2024-02-14 21:13:36 | <nickstwist> | https://paste.tomsmeding.com/OI2jcpjv |
| 2024-02-14 21:16:07 | <geekosaur> | I think you want the string "magenta", not a value (which appears to be a function) |
| 2024-02-14 21:18:07 | <nickstwist> | unfortunately, using "magenta" will default to (i am guessing) xmonad's default definition for magenta. for instance, renaming the xmobarColor to foobar renders the element white instead of its intended light pink |
| 2024-02-14 21:18:35 | <nickstwist> | https://paste.tomsmeding.com/sWnujXpd |
| 2024-02-14 21:18:38 | <nickstwist> | this is the whole function |
| 2024-02-14 21:21:01 | <geekosaur> | yes, "foobar" is not a color in X11's rgb.txt so it gets defaulted |
| 2024-02-14 21:21:08 | <geekosaur> | a string is not a function |
| 2024-02-14 21:25:30 | <nickstwist> | oh. right, i see. is there a way to pass the values assigned at the bottom to xmobarBorder? |
| 2024-02-14 21:31:08 | <nickstwist> | sorry, i am a bit new to this |
| 2024-02-14 21:36:56 | <geekosaur> | you need to use the string inside it, for example for foobar you want "#ff79c6" |
| 2024-02-14 21:37:28 | <geekosaur> | you can't use foobar directly, it's not a color, it's a function which takes a string and wraps that in a color-setting xmobar command |
| 2024-02-14 21:38:50 | <nickstwist> | ah i see. i was hoping there might have been a way to use the colours at the bottom as i wanted to dynamically change them with something like pywal |
| 2024-02-14 21:39:21 | <nickstwist> | and thereby change the colours being used on xmobar based on the wallpaper set |
| 2024-02-14 21:39:28 | <geekosaur> | I don't think xmobar lets you dynamically change them |
| 2024-02-14 21:40:17 | <nickstwist> | sorry i meant something like the bottom of this file |
| 2024-02-14 21:40:20 | <nickstwist> | https://github.com/unsafe-andrew/dotfiles/blob/master/xmonad.hs |
| 2024-02-14 21:41:11 | <nickstwist> | where the colours are appended to the bottom of the file and then invoked elsewhere. i guess what i am doing currently is not quite that but rather wrapping the colour in a command, as you said |
| 2024-02-14 21:42:32 | <geekosaur> | I would use `foobarColor = "ff79c6"` and then use `foobarColor` to define both `foobar` and the anonymous function for `ppVisible` |
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| 2024-02-14 21:53:15 | <nickstwist> | sorry, i am a little bit confused by what you meant geekosaur. i did the following which worked |
| 2024-02-14 21:53:16 | <nickstwist> | https://paste.tomsmeding.com/hfVgC8nU |
| 2024-02-14 21:54:14 | <nickstwist> | but did not quite understand what you meant by defining foobar, or the anonymous function |
| 2024-02-14 21:54:48 | <geekosaur> | you (re)defined foobar there |
| 2024-02-14 21:55:14 | <geekosaur> | the anonymous function is the value of ppVisible (and ppCurrent is another one) |
| 2024-02-14 21:56:21 | <nickstwist> | oh i see what you mean now. sorry for the misunderstanding and thank you very much for your help :) |
| 2024-02-14 21:56:54 | <geekosaur> | Haskell takes some gettin used to unless you have experience in another ML-family language |
| 2024-02-14 21:57:19 | <nickstwist> | i do not, unfortunately. i picked up xmonad to learn haskell. it's very fun so far, but a bit different to get my head around |
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| 2024-02-15 01:50:25 | <nickstwist> | hello, sorry to bother again. i was just wondering how i might import a module into xmonad.hs. my file is saved at `~/.config/xmonad` and i created a folder called `~/.config/xmonad/lib`, where i symlinked the relevant file but i keep getting the error `Could not find module` |
| 2024-02-15 01:50:32 | <nickstwist> | @where pastebin |
| 2024-02-15 01:50:32 | <lambdabot> | http://rafb.net/paste |
| 2024-02-15 01:50:40 | <nickstwist> | @where pastebin |
| 2024-02-15 01:50:41 | <lambdabot> | http://rafb.net/paste |
| 2024-02-15 01:51:00 | <geekosaur> | @where paste |
| 2024-02-15 01:51:00 | <lambdabot> | Help us help you: please paste full code, input and/or output at e.g. https://paste.tomsmeding.com |
| 2024-02-15 01:51:05 | <geekosaur> | or there's |
| 2024-02-15 01:51:06 | <geekosaur> | @paste |
| 2024-02-15 01:51:07 | <lambdabot> | A pastebin: https://paste.debian.net/ |
| 2024-02-15 01:51:11 | <geekosaur> | pick one 🙂 |
| 2024-02-15 01:52:03 | <nickstwist> | ah right. thank you for that :) |
| 2024-02-15 01:53:48 | <geekosaur> | anyway it sounds like you did the right thing, unless you mismade the symlink somehow |
| 2024-02-15 01:54:45 | <nickstwist> | i think the only thing i did different was capitalise the file name |
| 2024-02-15 01:54:59 | <nickstwist> | Colors.hs instead of colors.hs |
| 2024-02-15 01:58:08 | <geekosaur> | what exactly is in it? |
| 2024-02-15 01:58:38 | <nickstwist> | here is the minimal working example of my xmonad.hs and the symlinked file, Colors.hs |
| 2024-02-15 01:58:40 | <nickstwist> | https://paste.tomsmeding.com/XA3GrmMr |
| 2024-02-15 01:59:44 | <geekosaur> | why are you importing it as XMonad.Custom.Wal.Colors ? |
| 2024-02-15 01:59:56 | <geekosaur> | if it's in lib then it'd be `import Colors` |
| 2024-02-15 02:00:00 | <nickstwist> | oh, sorry, that was an earlier change. it should say import Colors |
| 2024-02-15 02:02:02 | <nickstwist> | i must have input something incorrectly but it is working now.. |
| 2024-02-15 02:02:09 | <nickstwist> | i'll just test it with a colour |
| 2024-02-15 02:02:59 | <nickstwist> | ah, that works. great :) |
| 2024-02-15 02:03:01 | <nickstwist> | thanks again! |
| 2024-02-15 02:04:11 | <geekosaur> | np |
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