Re: [xmonad] Splitting into xmonad-core/xmonad/xmonad-contrib; WAS Small announce about the completion of the bluetile merge

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:25:37AM EST, Gwern Branwen wrote:

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Chris Jones wrote:

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Hold on. Didn't you earlier write that

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xmonad 0.8 as shipped by debian squeeze let me do everything I needed without additional customization.

That seems like both customization & usage of -contrib modules (at least 4 of them). What then did you mean earlier?

Yes, that was earlier. But then, I figured that creating an xmonad.hs file specifying a terminal definition of 'xterm -tn xterm-256color' was cleaner than adding setting/exporting the TERM environment variable in my .bash_profile. Likewise, as described in my previous message, I have written a few short scripts that use GNU/screen's hard status line to display system monitoring information, the current date/time & outside temperature. This works regardless of the window manager, but having xmobar display the same data would be a better solution. I did not have to do any of that to have a perfectly workable environment. Just a couple of minor tweaks to improve on my current setup was all I changed from the default configuration. In other words, I reiterate that where I'm concerned: "xmonad 0.8 as shipped by debian squeeze let me do everything I needed without additional customization." Regarding "usage of -contrib modules.." I assume you mean the import statements? As stated in my previous message, I have absolutely no clue what these are for, what they do, whether I need them, and if so, why.. etc. I believe I copy-pasted them from John Goertzen's excellent step by step tutorial on how to integrate xmobar to xmonad. Since I have to boot to a different partition/system to configure xmobar, and since everything was working the way I wanted, I didn't look into these aspects further. I am pretty sure I could remove most of the stuff in the configuration file, but I have not been able to locate a detailed manual -- step by step is another good way to put it -- that describes what exactly I am supposed to do to configure xmonad. Which was precisely the object of my previous message. CJ