[xmonad] Re: Automatic configuration

Roman Cheplyaka roma at ro-che.info
Wed Jul 16 12:06:21 EDT 2008


* Maurí­cio <briqueabraque at yahoo.com> [2008-07-16 12:44:42-0300]
>>> (...)
>
>> Please point out any documentation that contradicts "~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs".
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Spencer Janssen
>
> My distribution uses version 0.6 of xmonad. It's 'man' page says:
>
> "CUSTOMIZATION
> xmonad  is  customized by creating a custom Config.hs and (re)compiling  
> the source code. After recompiling, ’restart’ is used to fork  the  new  
> version, with changes reflected immediately."

Which distribution do you use?
This is probably maintainer's mistake. Point that to him, and remind
about 0.7 is out for several months ;)

> But the point is that distributions sometimes do have to change some  
> code. Configuration examples in documentation are not supposed to "just  
> work".

Then they can distribute modified (but correct) documentation and
examples as well.

-- 
Roman I. Cheplyaka (aka Feuerbach @ IRC)


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