[xmonad] Ubuntu, Xmonad, and Xinerama

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 02:28:10PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 05:16:37PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Am Dienstag, den 18.03.2008, 11:47 -0400 schrieb Chris Sanner:
> 
> > > [...], when I did this my xinerama/twinview support went away. 
> > > I've now got one giant expanse of screen instead of two discrete workspaces.
> ...
> 
> > 
> > You can locally recompile and install (in that order) haskell-x11,
> > xmonad, xmonad-contrib. If you have libxinerama-dev and
> > x11proto-xinerama-dev (not sure which) installed while doing so, you’ll
> > get xinerama support. If you need more detailed instructions, feel free
> > to ask.
> 
> 
> I tried recompiling all this stuff to no avail. Specifically, I've
> rebuilt the debian source packages for x11, xmonad and xmonad-contrib
> and also *removed* those and built the versions from
> hackage. Everything seems to work just fine except xinerama. I suspect
> there may be breakage deeper into the system
> somewhere. libxinerama-dev has also been upgraded, I may have to try
> downgrading that and rebuilding again. 
> 

and just to follow up, there was an upgrade to libxinerama-dev that
occured at about the same time as these problems seem to have
started... a downgrade of that with a rebuild did not resolve the
problem.

A
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