[xmonad] Question about using things in xmonad-contrib-bluetilebranch-0.8.1.2

[Daniel Schoepe]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 07:53:46PM +0100, Amy de Buitléir wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a n00b question, so if there's a more appropriate place to ask it,
> please let me know.
>

This mailinglist and #xmonad on FreeNode are the right places for any
xmonad questions. In my experience, the Haskell community in general
is extremly welcoming to newbies, so don't be afraid to ask.

> I installed Xmonad yesterday and am thrilled with the speed, simplicity, and
> how much control it gives me. I really want to try out GridSelect for
> switching between windows, but it's in a hidden package (which installed
> using cabal). I'm new to Haskell as well as to XMonad, so I'm having a
> little trouble figuring out how to deal with this. If I do...

You don't need bluetile for GridSelect, it just isn't included in the
released version of xmonad(i.e. it didn't exist at that time). My
suggestion is to remove bluetile(it might be possible to have both
installed, since bluetile seems to be hidden though) and install the
darcs version of xmonad and xmonad-contrib, which contains
GridSelect. You can then use it just like any other module.  See the
"From darcs" section here: http://xmonad.org/download.html
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