[xmonad] Ubuntu, Xmonad, and Xinerama

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:20:17AM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> 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?

Hi, no problem. I took the time this morning to actually go through
this methodically:

1. aptitude remove xmonad (drags many dependencies out with it)
2. rm /var/cache/apt/archives/libghc*
3. mv ~/.xmonad ~/org_xmonad
4. aptitude install xmonad
5. mod-q --- xmonad restarts with obviously default config with
*functioning xinerama*!!!
6. mv ~/org_xmonad ~/.xmonad && touch ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs
7. mod-q --- xmonad rebuilds and restarts with my config and
functioning xinerama. 

So, yes, confirmed, xmonad xinerama works with debian official
packages in fully up-to-date sid. :)

A
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