September 2011 - xmonad

Testing XMonad configurations
by Toni Cebrián 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

Hi, I'm playing with different configurations and Layouts in xmonad but it is very slow to close session in order to see how changes look like. Is there any way to test xmonad configuration more straightforwardly? Perhaps using xvnc and exporting xmonad's DISPLAY to it? How do you do it when developing?

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Cabal install problem
by Tayfur Yilmaz 03 Sep '11

03 Sep '11

Hi everyone I have some problem for install 'cabal-install package' I downloaded and succesfully build a binary source ghc-7.0.2. Then I want to install cabal-0.10.2 and ı see some warning and last output like this Linking Setup ... Configuring Cabal-1.10.1.0... Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing: base >=4 && <3 && >=2 && <5, unix >=2.0 && <2.5 Error during cabal-install bootstrap: Configuring the Cabal package failed Then ı want to use cabal-0.8 and output like this Linking Setup ... Configuring Cabal-1.8.0.2... Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing: base >=4 && <3 && >=1 && <5, filepath >=1 && <1.2, unix >=2.1 && <2.5 Error during cabal-install bootstrap: Configuring the Cabal package failed So Which compatible versiyon for cabal-install version I use Kde4 on Pardus<http://www.pardus.org.tr/> Best Regards

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Possible bug in XMonad.Util.Scratchpad
by Džen 03 Sep '11

03 Sep '11

Hi everyone I'm using XMonad.Util.Scratchpad and it seems like there's an issue related to the focusing of windows while a scratchpad window is opened. Best way to reproduce the issue is by using a simple tabbed layout from XMonad.Layout.Tabbed. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open two distinguishable windows w0 and w1 2. Open a (floating) scratchpad window while w0 is focused 3. Directly focus w1 (without changing the focus to any other window) 4. Move the focus back to the scratchpad window Notice how w0 is briefly focued after moving the focus back to the scratchpad window, bringing w0 to the foreground (instead of w1 staying on top). Seems like the focus always drops back to the window which was focused just before the scratchpad windows is opened. I hope this somehow explains the problem that I'm experiencing. Is this really a bug or just a feature? Best regards -- Džen

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