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authorDevin Mullins <me@twifkak.com>2008-09-28 01:46:39 +0200
committerDevin Mullins <me@twifkak.com>2008-09-28 01:46:39 +0200
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add'l documentation
darcs-hash:20080927234639-78224-1f1797ff1808ac3a82f694b87c2a7514ffac549e
-rw-r--r--XMonad/Core.hs3
-rw-r--r--XMonad/Layout.hs5
-rw-r--r--man/xmonad.1.in2
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/XMonad/Core.hs b/XMonad/Core.hs
index a6ee797..f31cd74 100644
--- a/XMonad/Core.hs
+++ b/XMonad/Core.hs
@@ -340,7 +340,8 @@ io = liftIO
catchIO :: MonadIO m => IO () -> m ()
catchIO f = io (f `catch` \e -> hPrint stderr e >> hFlush stderr)
--- | spawn. Launch an external application
+-- | spawn. Launch an external application. Specifically, it double-forks and
+-- runs the 'String' you pass as a command to /bin/sh.
spawn :: MonadIO m => String -> m ()
spawn x = doubleFork $ executeFile "/bin/sh" False ["-c", x] Nothing
diff --git a/XMonad/Layout.hs b/XMonad/Layout.hs
index 1f73648..2c97a75 100644
--- a/XMonad/Layout.hs
+++ b/XMonad/Layout.hs
@@ -51,7 +51,10 @@ instance LayoutClass Full a
-- | The builtin tiling mode of xmonad. Supports 'Shrink', 'Expand' and
-- 'IncMasterN'.
-data Tall a = Tall !Int !Rational !Rational deriving (Show, Read)
+data Tall a = Tall !Int -- ^ The default number of windows in the master pane (default: 1)
+ !Rational -- ^ Default proportion of screen occupied by master pane (default: 1/2)
+ !Rational -- ^ Percent of screen to increment by when resizing panes (default: 3/100)
+ deriving (Show, Read)
-- TODO should be capped [0..1] ..
-- a nice pure layout, lots of properties for the layout, and its messages, in Properties.hs
diff --git a/man/xmonad.1.in b/man/xmonad.1.in
index 9bb1fb6..922a7f1 100644
--- a/man/xmonad.1.in
+++ b/man/xmonad.1.in
@@ -36,5 +36,7 @@ xmonad
to your \fI~/.xinitrc\fR file
.SH CUSTOMIZATION
\fBxmonad\fR is customized in ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs, and then restarting with mod-q.
+.PP
+You can find many extensions to the core feature set in the xmonad-contrib package, available through your package manager or from http://xmonad.org/.
.SH BUGS
Probably. If you find any, please report them: http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/list