Re: [xmonad] tiny config file gives error, please can someone take a quick look at it?

Brandon Allbery writes:

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 12:25 PM, jenia.ivlev wrote:

That's my error message. (I don't understand why I get undisplayable characters, like that "a" with the hat).

That looks like Unicode vs. iso8859 confusion. It was trying to print "smart quotes".

Error detected while loading xmonad configuration file: /home/jenia-xmonad/.xmonad/xmonad.hs xmonad.hs:8:45: parse error on input â=â Please check the file for errors.

The line indicated appears to be

kb = XConfig {XMonad.modMask = modMask} = (modMask, xK_b)

which is in fact incorrect. I suspect it was supposed to be

kb XConfig {XMonad.modMask = modMask} = (modMask, xK_b)

which uses record syntax in a pattern to unpack modMask from an XConfig parameter. You might find it less confusing with parentheses:

kb (XConfig {XMonad.modMask = modMask}) = (modMask, xK_b)

Thanks a lot. It works exept for one line: `, modMask = mod4mask` The error message is the following: Error detected while loading xmonad configuration file: /home/jenia-xmonad/.xmonad/xmonad.hs xmonad.hs:13:38: Not in scope: âmod4maskâ Perhaps you meant one of these: âmod4Maskâ (imported from XMonad), âmodMaskâ (imported from XMonad), âmod1Maskâ (imported from XMonad) Please check the file for errors. ======================================================================== Lets me repaste the config file: import XMonad import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog main = xmonad =<< statusBar cmd pp kb conf where cmd = "xmobar" pp = xmobarPP kb (XConfig {XMonad.modMask = modMask}) = (modMask, xK_b) conf = myConfig myConfig = defaultConfig { borderWidth = 2 , terminal = "urxvt" , modMask = mod4mask <----------- here is the mistake } ======================================================================== Can you tell me please how to fix this? Thanks again for your kind help.