On 14 Sep 2011, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 04:30, Anthony Campbell wrote:

A A mylayoutHook = Full ||| noBorders (tabbed shrinkText defaultTConf) ||| Accordion xmonad.hs:7:58: Not in scope: `defaultTConf'

There isn't a defaultTConf defined by XMonad.Layout.Tabbed. A You probably want defaultTheme. -- brandon s allbery A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) A A (412) 475-9364 vm/sms

I tried that, but no luck. But I think I may have a more fundamental problem: whichever module I select to import, I get an error message that it can't be found. But I do have the relevant package installed: libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev - Extensions to xmonad and they are present in /usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc/lib/xmonad-contrib-0.9.2/ghc-7.0.4/XMonad/Layout/ Is something misconfigured? The ghc executables are in my path in /usr/bin. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - ac@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

On 14 Sep 2011, Amy de Buitléir wrote:

Try the command "ghc-pkg check". If that doesn't report any errors, then your configuration is probably OK.

Thanks - no errors shown. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - ac@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

On 15 Sep 2011, Amy de Buitléir wrote:

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Thanks - no errors shown.

Once you've installed xmonad and xmonad-contrib, you probably have everything you need for XMonad, unless you're doing something really fancy. I suspect the problem is that the example you're following is out of date. I believe some things in the contrib packages moved, got renamed, or got replaced with something similar.

I've been using Xmonad for years, but I only know about the configuration stuff that I myself use. But there's an Xmonad mailing list that is very friendly and should be able to answer your question quickly.

http://xmonad.org/community.html

BTW, Xmonad rocks!

Many thanks for this link. I had thought that this _was_ the xmonad mailing list - I didn't know about the place you mention. I will follow it up. I have been much impressed with xmonad so far. I have managed to do some basic configuring, mainly to change the default mod key. Actually, most of the defaults are fine for me - I mainly use fullscreen - but it would be nice to experiment with some of the contrib stuff. -- Anthony Campbell - ac@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell