[xmonad] [PATCH 1/2] XMonadContrib: add a utility module to set the default cursor

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Tue Sep 15 11:06:45 EDT 2009


spencerjanssen:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:22:38AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > Based upon comments on the list and IRC, here's an updated set of patches.  I
> > went with "xc_" as the cursor name prefix as opposed to haskell-x11's
> > "xC_"/"xK_" convention so that if haskell-x11 starts exporting the
> > symbols, we won't have any namespace issues.
> 
> This ought to be a patch for the X11 library, perhaps a new module under
> Graphics.X11.ExtraTypes?  The maintainers and hackers of X11 all work on
> xmonad, so we can make sure that a new release of X11 is made in order for us
> to use the new cursor fonts.
> 
> Also, can you send your patches in darcs patch form?
> 
> Quick quide:
> 
>     $ darcs get http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib # grab the repo
>     $ vi foo # make your edits
>     $ darcs record # interactively make a patch out of your changes
>     $ darcs send -o mypatch.dpatch # make a file you can email
> 

I'm happy to apply patches to X11 for basic functionality like this.


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