[xmonad] Ubuntu, Xmonad, and Xinerama

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:58:56PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 18.03.2008, 14:28 -0700 schrieb Andrew Sackville-West:
> > 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. 
> 
> Just checking back: The problem is also present when building xmonad
> from cabal, independant from the debian packages?
> 
> Do you have x11proto-xinerama-dev installed? What is the output of the
> configure step when configuring haskell-x11?

this all may be a red-herring... it *appears* that my local xmonad
wasn't getting updated because I hadn't changed it or touched it. It's
not conclusive as I *had* made some changes to it, but the whole
process has gotten so confusing now that I can't confirm either way
exactly what happened. Regardless, I am now getting functioning
xinerama running the official debian packages.

Is it possible that having a custom ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs that wasn't
changed across updates could cause xinerama to fail because
~/.xmonad/xmonad-i386-linux doesn't get rebuilt?

A
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