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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:29:29 +0000 From: fophillips@fophillips.org To: xmonad@haskell.org Subject: Re: [xmonad] xmonad config error

On Sun Oct 26 21:32:28 2008, Guy Wire wrote:

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Hello,

I just installed Xmonad on my Arch system. The basic setup is simply amazing. In trying to go through the configuration walk-through I downloaded the xmonad.hs file from the website. Mod1+q gives me:

Error detected while loading xmonad configuration file: ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs

xmonad.hs:161:53: Not in scope: 'W.shiftMaster'

xmonad.hs:164:53: Not in scope: 'W.shiftMaster'

xmonad.hs:168:53: Not in scope: 'W.shiftMaster'

Please check the file for errors.

I am guessing you have a line in your xmonad.hs that looks like this:

import qualified XMonad.StackSet as W (W.shift)

it needs to look like this:

import qualified XMonad.StackSet as W (W.shift, W.shiftMaster)

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Now it changed to: xmonad.hs:13.48: Module 'XMonad.StackSet' does not export 'W.shiftMaster' _________________________________________________________________ You live life beyond your PC. So now Windows goes beyond your PC. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/115298556/direct/01/

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:16:53PM +0000, Fred Phillips wrote:

On Sun Oct 26 22:47:47 2008, Guy Wire wrote:

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Now it changed to:

xmonad.hs:13.48: Module 'XMonad.StackSet' does not export 'W.shiftMaster'

W.shiftMaster was added after the release of 0.8, you will have to build from darcs to get it.

The other solution is to replace 'W.shiftMaster' with 'W.swapMaster', which is what it used to be before shiftMaster was added. That way you won't have to build from darcs (although building from darcs is not that scary and quite stable). -Brent