xmonad-extras 0.13.4 released

July 28, 2018

In the previous release of xmonad-extras-0.13.3, Giovani Silva added support for Intel brightness control plugin. I have been using that in my laptop and have been happy with it.

The new xmonad-extras 0.13.4 release is basically based on my own refinements on top of it. The notable changes are:

Previously, you need to pass cabal flag to enable the plugin. I have enabled it by default now. Also, it now supports older version of ghc till 7.10.3. I specifically had to remove the usage of bitraverse function for it.
Added a new convienence function named setBrightness in the module. I specifically use this in my Xmonad’s startup hook:

sibiStartupHook :: X ()
sibiStartupHook = do
  as <- io getArgs
  Bright.setBrightness 1260
  ...
  ...

Have improved documentation on how to use the plugin. The new documentation is accessible via the Haddock documentation in the module. Specifically, I use it with systemd to make it properly work.

Unfortunately, this version still doesn’t work with the latest GHC because of an pending upstream release.