On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 15:27, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
<rdiaz02@gmail.com> wrote:
But now, when I read that 0.9 is obsolete (my current version, running
possibly start fiddling around... well, I really don't feel tempted at all
to try that right now (and I will, at least for now, feel solace in the
"if it ain't broken, don't fix it").
I've followed the discussion for quite a while now, and realized that my "stock" xmonad (as delivered from ubuntu) has been outdated for years. I've felt the same way (i.e. "if it ain't broke, don't try to fix it") because it's just worked. I'm "just" a sysadm, and not a programmer, so I feel (as others have pointed out in this thread) more than a little intimidated by haskell.
Today however, with the fantastically simple explanation from Wirt Wolff earlier in this thread on how to build it with cabal from darcs, I decided to give it a go.
It really was as simple as Wirt describes. With a minimum of modification to my setup (mv /usr/bin/xmonad /usr/bin/.xmonad;ln -s /home/jonas/.cabal/bin/xmonad /usr/bin/xmonad), I'm now running the "latest and greatest" from darcs - integrated with
gnome3 and with xmonad-log-applet integrated in gnome3-panel.
It was a lot easier than I had expected.
Give it a go, it's easy to revert (just undo the rename and link) in case there's problems.
/Jonas