[Xmonad] Heads up: upgrade X11-extras now

[Dave Harrison]

Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> dave:
>> Spencer Janssen wrote:
>>> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:17:18 -0500
>>> Spencer Janssen <sjanssen at cse.unl.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Before you update xmonad to the latest darcs, be sure to upgrade
>>>> X11-extras, or you risk losing windows.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Spencer Janssen
>>> Actually, this is not quite sufficient (good catch by Stefan).  Here is
>>> what will work:
>>>  - darcs pull X11-extras, clean, build, install X11-extras
>>>  - 'runhaskell Setup clean', build, install X11-xmonad
>>>  - restart into the newly built executable
>>>  - view each of your workspaces at least once
>>>  - darcs pull xmonad
>>>  - clean, build, install xmonad
>>>  - restart
>>>
>>> Or you can just be safe and totally restart X the next time you upgrade.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Spencer Janssen
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Nice totally fresh checkouts of all 3,
>>
>> xmonad, Spencer Janssen <sjanssen at cse.unl.edu>**20070630021026]
>> X11-extras, Spencer Janssen <sjanssen at cse.unl.edu>**20070620211004]
>> XMonadContrib, l.mai at web.de**20070629171038
>>
>> X11-extras builds fine, but I'm getting this build error for xmonad,
>>
>> % sudo runhaskell Setup.lhs build
>> Preprocessing executables for xmonad-0.2...
>> Building xmonad-0.2...
>> [ 2 of 13] Compiling XMonad           ( XMonad.hs,
>> dist/build/xmonad/xmonad-tmp/XMonad.o )
>>
>> XMonad.hs:62:5:
>>     No instance for (Read Rectangle)
>>       arising from the 'deriving' clause of a data type declaration
>>       at XMonad.hs:62:5
>>     Possible fix: add an instance declaration for (Read Rectangle)
>>     When deriving the instance for `Read ScreenDetail'
>> _______________________________________________
> 
> That Read instance was added to X11-extras, be sure to pull the latest
> patch? (and double check it was installed). Also, runhaskell Setup.lhs
> clean for xmonad.

Ah my fault, I'd built but not installed X11-extras (was waiting to
see if the build was successful before I installed ;-) ).

I am noticing that GreedyView doesn't seem to be working now though
... have there been changes to how I should change Config.hs to use it ?