Hey.
I'm trying to configure Xmonad, the window manager.
for this purpose, I'm trying to read the workspaces variable in the code below from file.
As you can see, I do workspaces = readWS where
readWS = do
l <- readFile "~/bla"
return l
I get an error saying I am mismatching types IO [String] and [String].
But I thought that once one does l <- readFile "~/bla", l is the a string or, in this case, a String list. If I run that line in prelude it seems to be working fine, prints the content of the file "~/bla" on screen (though I'm not sure if as a String or as a list of Strings, i.e. [String])
Can anyone help please?
I've been struggling with this for days...
94 main = do
95 xmonad
96 $ defaultConfig {
97 manageHook = manageDocks <+> myManageHook <+> manageHook defaultConfig,
98 layoutHook = avoidStruts $ layoutHook defaultConfig,
99 logHook = dynamicLogWithPP $ conkyPP "",
100 terminal = "gnome-terminal",
101 keys = myKeys,
102 workspaces = readWS,
103 mouseBindings = myMouseBindings,
104 focusedBorderColor = "#008E00",
105 borderWidth = 3
106 --modMask = mod1Mask, --This is to rebind mod key
107 } `additionalKeys`