Re: [xmonad] xmonad on solaris, input issue

Am 23.01.2010 18:55, schrieb Ralph Hofmann:

Am Samstag, den 23.01.2010, 16:58 +0100 schrieb Stephan Schulz:

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On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Christian Walther wrote:

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Hello Stephan,

2010/1/22 Stephan Schulz:

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Hello all!

I've succeeded in building xmonad 0.9.1 on a sparc box with Solaris 10 and GHC 6.10.4 (bootstrapped with the 6.8.3 binary sparc package). The only issue is, that it doesn't recognize it's metakey. So I can't open a terminal or quit it with Meta+Shift+Q. It has definitely something to do with the build process as remotely starting xmonad on a linux box does work flawless (remotely as in "ssh -X" to it). Has anyone suggestions were I should start to check for errors?

I'm using xmonad 0.9.1 on Solaris 10/Sparc, too, and don't have any issues with it. Is it possible that there is a mismatch between the modifier you configured in your xmonad.hs and the corresponding key? xmodmap should tell you.

I'm using the standard modifier as I have no ~/.xmonad directory (neither on the linux box nor the solaris box). The output of xmodmap -pm is this:

xmodmap: up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) lock Caps_Lock (0x42) control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d) mod1 Alt_L (0x40) mod2 Mode_switch (0x71) mod3 Num_Lock (0x4d) mod4 Meta_L (0x73), Meta_R (0x74) mod5

Seems ok to me...

Any other ideas what I can try?

I had the same problem on linux at the beginning. The reason in my case was, that xmonad called a terminal, which has not been installed. You could try a very simple xmonad configuration:

http://www.xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Doc-Configuring.html

and edit the "terminal=..." line properly.

I tried it with the following: import XMonad main = xmonad defaultConfig { modMask = mod1Mask , terminal ="xterm" } xmonad --recompile yielded no errors or warnings, but it didn't help either. best regards, Stephan