I have been trying to customize a couple of things in xmonad 0.7 following the online tutorials to the letter and after a week of frustration, I'm beginning to think that these tutorials only cover the current release, which would explain why whatever I tried always seemed to result in bizarre undocumented errors. The product works fine out of the box as long as you just use the defaults, but there are just a couple of things I need to change, such as some of the key bindings (which happen to clash with bindings I have defined in applications I run frequently), as well as the default terminal and the corresponding $TERM environment variable, for instance. Besides, I would like to set up a system status bar at the bottom of the screen, and apparently this is not available by default. This is a debian stable aka "lenny" system, and the version of xmonad is as expected pretty ancient. I wouldn't mind installing the current stable version of xmonad, but since the version from the debian stable repository pulled something like 400 Meg of Haskell dependencies, I have a feeling this is probably not going to be straightforward. Or should I wait till the current debian testing, aka squeeze becomes stable, and hopefully things will work as advertised? Please advise. CJ