On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 03:51:43PM +0200, Toby Cubitt wrote:
Brent Yorgey wrote:
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 03:02:52PM +0200, Toby Cubitt wrote:
***** import XMonad import XMonad.Layout.SimpleDecoration
myLayoutHook = simpleDeco shrinkText defaultTheme (layoutHook defaultConfig)
main = xmonad $ defaultConfig { layoutHook = myLayoutHook } *****
are you sure you didn't accidentally switch to fullscreen mode (i.e. with mod-space)?
To be sure, I tried hitting mod-space a few times, and also tried replacing the above layout hook with:
myLayoutHook = simpleDeco shrinkText defaultTheme (Tall 1 (1/300) (1/2))
with no change in the behaviour.
You should also try hitting mod-shift-space to to a hard reload of the layout, sometimes that's necessary when changing your layout (since xmonad tries very hard to keep your layout state across restarts).
Also doesn't seem to help. I also tried quitting xmonad completely (M-S-q) and logging into X again, but still see the same behaviour.
Yeah, quitting completely and restarting should do it if mod-shift-space does. Hmm. So, having gotten the simple stuff out of the way, I tried this config myself (in fact, I am using it right now while composing this email) and it works fine for me. I get tiled windows with little title boxes above each one. So for now I am going with the hypothesis that your config is not successfully being compiled, and xmonad is using a previous config in its place. (Although there are definitely no syntax errors in the config you pasted; I copied and pasted it and it works fine.) A few more things to check: 1. Do you have the 'xmessage' utility installed? One possibility is that xmonad is generating errors but is not able to show them to you if you don't have 'xmessage'. 2. Also check ~/.xsession-errors and ~/.xmonad/xmonad.errors for any error messages. 3. You can also try loading your xmonad.hs in ghci to see whether there are any errors: cd into ~/.xmonad and type 'ghci'; then at the ghci prompt type ':load xmonad.hs'. If nothing likely comes out of any of these, then we'll have to go back to the drawing board. -Brent