daniel.schoepe:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 07:53:46PM +0100, Amy de Buitléir wrote:
Hi,
This is a n00b question, so if there's a more appropriate place to ask it, please let me know.
This mailinglist and #xmonad on FreeNode are the right places for any xmonad questions. In my experience, the Haskell community in general is extremly welcoming to newbies, so don't be afraid to ask.
I installed Xmonad yesterday and am thrilled with the speed, simplicity, and how much control it gives me. I really want to try out GridSelect for switching between windows, but it's in a hidden package (which installed using cabal). I'm new to Haskell as well as to XMonad, so I'm having a little trouble figuring out how to deal with this. If I do...
You don't need bluetile for GridSelect, it just isn't included in the released version of xmonad(i.e. it didn't exist at that time). My suggestion is to remove bluetile(it might be possible to have both installed, since bluetile seems to be hidden though) and install the darcs version of xmonad and xmonad-contrib, which contains GridSelect. You can then use it just like any other module. See the "From darcs" section here: http://xmonad.org/download.html
Is the bluetile "branch" likely to be merged in? Is the developer on this mailing list? I'd seriously like to consider what it would take to merge it in, since otherwise I'm not sure what its future is. -- Don