[xmonad] Ubuntu, Xmonad, and Xinerama

[Don Stewart]

andrew:
> 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. :)

Great! 

Thanks Joachim and Andrew for teasing out this issue.