[xmonad] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Having a look at XMonad window manager

[Don Stewart]

First, you should take up this discussion on the xmonad at haskell.org list?
(CC'd)

Secondly, assuming you've installed xmonad from Fedora, it's not clear
what is wrong with your set up. What error are you getting exactly?

-- Don

nowgate:
> Well, for starters the Fedora entry for installing XMonad is blank/empty:
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Installing_xmonad#Fedora
> 
> Some things I've done:
> 
> I set up a .xmonad directory in my home directory with this xmonad.hs
> 
> [michael at localhost ~]$ cat ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs
>     --
>     -- An example, simple ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs file.
>     -- It overrides a few basic settings, reusing all the other defaults.
>     --
> 
>     import XMonad
> 
>     main = xmonad $ defaultConfig
>         { borderWidth        = 2
>         , terminal           = "urxvt"
>         , normalBorderColor  = "#cccccc"
>         , focusedBorderColor = "#cd8b00" }
> 
> [michael at localhost ~]$
> 
> I set up a .xsession directory in my home directory with this in it
> 
> [michael at localhost ~]$ cat .xsession
> export WINDOW_MANAGER="/usr/bin/xmonad"
> exec gnome-session
> 
> [michael at localhost ~]$
> 
> Because supposedly X doesn't even check .xsession file without having
> xorg-x11-xinit-session installed, I also downloaded that.
> 
> I set up a XMonad.desktop file in /usr/share/applications directory
> 
> [michael at localhost ~]$ cat /usr/share/applications/Xmonad.desktop
> [Desktop Entry]
> Type=Application
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Name=Xmonad
> # change this path according to your xmonad binary
> Exec=/usr/bin/xmonad
> NoDisplay=true
> X-GNOME-WMName=Xmonad
> X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=XMonad
> X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=xmonad
> X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=general
> X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=WindowManager
> X-GNOME-Provides=windowmanager
> X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=true
> [michael at localhost ~]$
> 
> I added /usr/bin/xmonad to startup applications.
> 
> All these things were suggested.
> 
> Michael
> 
> --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>     From: Don Stewart <dons at galois.com>
>     Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Having a look at XMonad window manager
>     To: "michael rice" <nowgate at yahoo.com>
>     Cc: "Ivan Lazar Miljenovic" <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com>,
>     haskell-cafe at haskell.org
>     Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 3:30 PM
> 
>     nowgate:
>     > I'd already found a lot of these links and tried some of their
>     suggestions,
>     > without any success. Does anyone who posts here actually use it (what
>     > platform)?
> 
>     What's the problem exactly?
> 
>     -- Don
> 
>