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DynamicLog.defaultPP and Prompt.defaultXPConfig AWOL on Nix
by Jacek Generowicz 25 Aug '22

25 Aug '22

Hello, I've been a happy XMonad user for years, and it is both one of the most useful and most stable pieces of software in my personal configuration. After an upgrade to my NixOS/home-manager configuration, XMonad fails to recompile with the following error message: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- xmonad --recompile XMonad will use ghc to recompile, because neither "/home/jacg/.xmonad/build" nor "/home/jacg/.xmonad/stack.yaml" exists. XMonad recompiling (forced). Errors detected while compiling xmonad config: /home/jacg/.xmonad/xmonad.hs $ /nix/store/g4bjasmlq3v3dxryd02abpkr4mg7y1d5-ghc-9.0.2-with-packages/bin/ghc --make xmonad.hs -i -ilib -fforce-recomp -main-is main -v0 -outputdir /home/jacg/.xmonad/build-x86_64-linux -o /home/jacg/.xmonad/xmonad-x86_64-linux xmonad.hs:84:34: error: Module ‘XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog’ does not export ‘defaultPP’ | 84 | import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog ( defaultPP | ^^^^^^^^^ xmonad.hs:133:37: error: Module ‘XMonad.Prompt’ does not export ‘defaultXPConfig’ | 133 | import XMonad.Prompt (autoComplete, defaultXPConfig) | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Please check the file for errors. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Its exceptional stability has made me not have to configure or think about XMonad for aeons: it's simply an extension of my fingers. Consequently this error is leaving me completely stumped. Can you give me any hints on how to resolve this problem?

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Errors building Xmonad using Stack
by Eyal Erez 21 Jul '22

21 Jul '22

Hi, After having a hard time getting xmonad installed via my destro, I've followed the "Building using Stack" instructions online ( https://xmonad.org/INSTALL.html) The build seemed to have worked okay. However, when I try to start xmonad with my config file, I get many import errors. I've checked out the tagged versions v0.15 of xmonad and v0.16 of xmonad-contrib. Has the libraries changed at some point or is the compiled version having a hard time finding them? Is the problem in how I'm building xmonad or in my configuration? Errors: https://pastebin.com/auFthRnJ xmonad.hs: https://pastebin.com/AeQjyVVB Thank you -- There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't.

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Question about desktop notifications
by Adam Cooper 11 Jul '22

11 Jul '22

I've recently started running xmonad on Arch Linux, with no desktop environment, and can't seem to figure out how the desktop notifications are being generated. - Here's a link to a snapshot, to show what my notifications currently look like: https://imgur.com/a/dLMbj3w - Running `notify-send 'Hello world!' 'This is an example notification.'` yields the error `GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files`. Can anyone shed some light on this mystery? Thank you, Adam Cooper

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Fwd: Re: xmonad packages broken in Debian
by Michael Topp 10 Jul '22

10 Jul '22

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Re: [xmonad] xmonad packages broken in Debian Datum: Mon, 4 Jul 2022 12:33:38 +0200 Von: Michael Topp <info(a)mito-space.com> An: Eyal Erez <oneself(a)gmail.com> Hi, if you're asking what distro maintains xmonad packages (the best), I count on Arch. They update all official 'xmonad' packages frequently, because their haskell packages themselves also are updated quite often (could be once, twice a week). – Alternatively you can make your own local xmonad build, independent from the distro. And sure, you also have to decide which compiler to use. I highly recommend consulting the wikis from both Arch Linux and Xmonad. HTH Am 03.07.22 um 05:07 schrieb Eyal Erez: > Does anyone know why the xmonad packages seem to be broken in Debian? > > https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/haskell.html > > When I try to install libghc-xmonad-dev > and/or libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev, I get an error: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > libghc-xmonad-dev : Depends: libghc-x11-dev-1.9.1-11a5c > Depends: libghc-base-dev-4.13.0.0-2f220 but it is > not installable > Depends: libghc-containers-dev-0.6.2.1-ab1cf but > it is not installable > Depends: libghc-data-default-dev-0.7.1.1-958e3 > Depends: libghc-directory-dev-1.3.6.0-49fdf but > it is not installable > Depends: > libghc-extensible-exceptions-dev-0.1.1.4-10872 but it is not installable > Depends: libghc-filepath-dev-1.4.2.1-103b6 but it > is not installable > Depends: libghc-mtl-dev-2.2.2-7208c but it is not > installable > Depends: libghc-process-dev-1.6.9.0-88a89 but it > is not installable > Depends: libghc-setlocale-dev-1.0.0.9-a89d6 but > it is not installable > Depends: libghc-unix-dev-2.7.2.2-bb33f but it is > not installable > Depends: libghc-utf8-string-dev-1.0.1.1-866d7 but > it is not installable > Recommends: libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev but it is > not going to be installed > > When I tried to enquire in the distros forums (which is a Debian > variant) they indicated that the problem is upstream. Does anyone know > what the issue is? Which distro to folks use with xmonad? Where is it > best supported? > > > > -- > *Eyal Erez <**oneself(a)gmail.com* <mailto:oneself@gmail.com>*>* > > There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't. > > > _______________________________________________ > xmonad mailing list > xmonad(a)haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmonad

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XMonad broke
by linuxham＠wowway.com 06 Jul '22

06 Jul '22

Arch updated Haskell, but not my xmonad and xmonad - contrib. I recompiled xmonad, got a bunch of errors. I then reinstalled my xmonad-git and xmonad-contrib-git, and then recompiled xmonad and only got one error msg, on ToggleStruts, so I removed that, got zero errors, but no Xmobar, sigh... I will dig into it more, but cabal makes that go smoother?? Thanks Ed

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view workspaces in Xmobar
by linuxham 05 Jul '22

05 Jul '22

Hello, I am new to configuring Xmonad, and am trying to get Xmobar to show workspaces. I am using the Xmonad.hs from here: https://xmonad.org/TUTORIAL.html And my Xmobarrc is attached. I am running Endeavor OS, with xmonad-git-0.17, and xmonad-contrib-git-0.17, and xmobar-get-0.36 When I boot into Xmonad, the Xmobar says "Updating", but doesn't show anything! Thanks Ed PS I read all of April, but didn't catch the fix!

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xmonad packages broken in Debian
by Eyal Erez 04 Jul '22

04 Jul '22

Does anyone know why the xmonad packages seem to be broken in Debian? https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/haskell.html When I try to install libghc-xmonad-dev and/or libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev, I get an error: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libghc-xmonad-dev : Depends: libghc-x11-dev-1.9.1-11a5c Depends: libghc-base-dev-4.13.0.0-2f220 but it is not installable Depends: libghc-containers-dev-0.6.2.1-ab1cf but it is not installable Depends: libghc-data-default-dev-0.7.1.1-958e3 Depends: libghc-directory-dev-1.3.6.0-49fdf but it is not installable Depends: libghc-extensible-exceptions-dev-0.1.1.4-10872 but it is not installable Depends: libghc-filepath-dev-1.4.2.1-103b6 but it is not installable Depends: libghc-mtl-dev-2.2.2-7208c but it is not installable Depends: libghc-process-dev-1.6.9.0-88a89 but it is not installable Depends: libghc-setlocale-dev-1.0.0.9-a89d6 but it is not installable Depends: libghc-unix-dev-2.7.2.2-bb33f but it is not installable Depends: libghc-utf8-string-dev-1.0.1.1-866d7 but it is not installable Recommends: libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev but it is not going to be installed When I tried to enquire in the distros forums (which is a Debian variant) they indicated that the problem is upstream. Does anyone know what the issue is? Which distro to folks use with xmonad? Where is it best supported? -- *Eyal Erez <**oneself(a)gmail.com* <oneself(a)gmail.com>*>* There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't.

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Hopefully Very Simple Question
by Michael Needham 14 Apr '22

14 Apr '22

Greetings: I am very happy with my xmonad now. Fixed it with your help and the help of the DT (YouTube) community though this community was able to help me the most. THANK-YOU! My new issue is annoying to me and not something that keeps the system from working. I am using isDialog to spawn dialog boxes as floating windows. They spawn floating but show up to the right top of the screen. I would like them always be centered. Is this possible and if so how do I modify the layout statement? Thanks, Regards, Michael Needham

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Loghook Help
by Michael Needham 10 Apr '22

10 Apr '22

Hi Guys, still struggling with my xmobar config on xmonad. I have been trying to add loghook to spawn my workspaces on xmobar via StdinReader and right now my xmobar spawns with "Updaing..." where the workspaces should appear. A helpful person did give me a hint which is to use a loghook to outputPP to get the data from my xmproc (which is a spawnPipe) and I guess I am not understanding. I have attached my xmonad.hs and there is a pleace to add whatever loghook I need to get the workspaces to show up. The config is I believe darcs from the Haskell.org site. I need to know where exactly in here to put the loghook statement and how to setup that section in my xmonad.hs. The current part of the section looks like: " myLogHook = return ()." Hope someone can uncloud the explanations that I am getting because all Google Searches and Haskell documentation just doesn't seem to work (always get errors about out of scrope and I believe the imports are all there for everything I am trying to use. (please feel free to correct me if I am not importing something). Thanks, -- Kind Regards, *John Michael Needham *

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Same stuff new day
by Michael Needham 09 Apr '22

09 Apr '22

Hello Again: Still struggling with my xmobar config and workspaces issues. Figured out something I don't quite get why it is not working, but in xmobarrc I am using ", RUN StdinReader" (and have tried the UnsafeStdinReader variation as well) and this causes xmobar not to run at startup again. If I start xmobar from the terminal it runs and does not error. in my xmobar.hs it is called via xproc inside my main do block. I am attaching both files as they appear today. Thank you guys for all the help so far. Please do tell me if I am missing some imports or something I need! Also all the fonts listed are installed and verified as in my fc-cache on the EOS system. -- Kind Regards, *John Michael Needham*

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