[xmonad] Ubuntu, Xmonad, and Xinerama

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 18.03.2008, 17:15 -0700 schrieb Andrew Sackville-West:
> > > 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.

Sorry to ask for details again: Are you getting xinerama with the
unmodified official debian packages or with the debian packages locally
re-build?

> 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?

Quite possible, happens to me all the time :-)

Greetings,
Joachim
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