Getting Started With Xmonad DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Olli
Installing xmonad to Ubuntu has been the biggest confusion so far for my short Linux-journey. I did like in this video. Installing went smoothly. First confusion was the dark screen. I only found this video after I installed. Second even bigger confusion: How to change back to Gnome? When I chose xmonad from login-screen session icon it start using it as a default. Took me hours to figure out how to change this because I didn't know how. Ctrl+alt+F1 didn't help and neither did ctrl+alt+f3. I had to figure out a way to log myself out using terminal. Only later I realized ctrl+alt+del might have done the trick. Don't know whether its shortcut in Xmonad.
I didn't realize until later that I have to give up whole Gnome to use Xmonad or so I have understood. No icons etc. Right now I'm back in Gnome and I'm not sure how to start Xmonad on a another display (ctrl+altf3) for example. This would be something very interesting to know.
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Installing xmonad to Ubuntu has been the biggest confusion so far for my short Linux-journey. I did like in this video. Installing went smoothly. First confusion was the dark screen. I only found this video after I installed. Second even bigger confusion: How to change back to Gnome? When I chose xmonad from login-screen session icon it start using it as a default. Took me hours to figure out how to change this because I didn't know how. Ctrl+alt+F1 didn't help and neither did ctrl+alt+f3. I had to figure out a way to log myself out using terminal. Only later I realized ctrl+alt+del might have done the trick. Don't know whether its shortcut in Xmonad.
I didn't realize until later that I have to give up whole Gnome to use Xmonad or so I have understood. No icons etc. Right now I'm back in Gnome and I'm not sure how to start Xmonad on a another display (ctrl+altf3) for example. This would be something very interesting to know.
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Demonspeeding152
I'm relatively new to Linux(i know this is a bit of a challenge for noobie) I'm using Manjaro, i've followed through half of this video, installed Xmonad, xmonad-contrib, dmenu, and made sure i had the terminal, i downloaded the xmonad.hs file, then realized i needed to create the .xmonad in the / so i did that, then realized i needed to chmod(it wasnt allowing write permissions) i finally got there, got the xmonad.hs put in, tried to change the mod key to the windows key, then i used xmonad --recompile and it says it completed successfully but still no change to the mod key, any ideas how to get it updating properly? thank you in advance
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I'm relatively new to Linux(i know this is a bit of a challenge for noobie) I'm using Manjaro, i've followed through half of this video, installed Xmonad, xmonad-contrib, dmenu, and made sure i had the terminal, i downloaded the xmonad.hs file, then realized i needed to create the .xmonad in the / so i did that, then realized i needed to chmod(it wasnt allowing write permissions) i finally got there, got the xmonad.hs put in, tried to change the mod key to the windows key, then i used xmonad --recompile and it says it completed successfully but still no change to the mod key, any ideas how to get it updating properly? thank you in advance
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Пётр
Maybe it's my machine's problem, but I had issues with recompiling xmonad on manjaro for about three days now. As I understood, pacman breaks some dependencies and nothing seemed to work. If you have similar problem, try to delete xmonad and xmonad-contrib from pacman, install cabal-install and then run -cabal install xmonad xmonad-contrib --lib --ghc-option=-dynamic- and after that install them with pacman. I didn't find similar solution online and I am not sure if it's the right way to fix this, but now xmonad runs smoothly, so I hope that helps
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Maybe it's my machine's problem, but I had issues with recompiling xmonad on manjaro for about three days now. As I understood, pacman breaks some dependencies and nothing seemed to work. If you have similar problem, try to delete xmonad and xmonad-contrib from pacman, install cabal-install and then run -cabal install xmonad xmonad-contrib --lib --ghc-option=-dynamic- and after that install them with pacman. I didn't find similar solution online and I am not sure if it's the right way to fix this, but now xmonad runs smoothly, so I hope that helps
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Laurence
I've got an installation of Haskell stack right now on my Ubuntu 21.04/Gnome. It's using ghc 8.10 maybe? What's going on behind the scenes when I do a sudo apt-get install xmonad? Does installing xmonad set up and work with a completely different Haskell environment -- or does it work with my existing Haskell stack world? Haskell install is bizarre, and I'm afraid of messing stuff up. Just found a rogue stack.yaml file that was completely messing me up, and had to completely re-install stack. Fretful of XMonad for that reason.
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I've got an installation of Haskell stack right now on my Ubuntu 21.04/Gnome. It's using ghc 8.10 maybe? What's going on behind the scenes when I do a sudo apt-get install xmonad? Does installing xmonad set up and work with a completely different Haskell environment -- or does it work with my existing Haskell stack world? Haskell install is bizarre, and I'm afraid of messing stuff up. Just found a rogue stack.yaml file that was completely messing me up, and had to completely re-install stack. Fretful of XMonad for that reason.
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JR
i love these videos but every time i go to hack on them i feel like there's lack of information to get started. i like how organized looking your configs are. rather then the defaults but every time i change the config like earlier today i spent 2 hrs trying to write my config and there was no error messages and it glitched like it reset but it didn't use my config i had not sure what happened but it didn't work at all. i think i broke it.
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i love these videos but every time i go to hack on them i feel like there's lack of information to get started. i like how organized looking your configs are. rather then the defaults but every time i change the config like earlier today i spent 2 hrs trying to write my config and there was no error messages and it glitched like it reset but it didn't use my config i had not sure what happened but it didn't work at all. i think i broke it.
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Nick
Do not understand. What's the point of creating such a puzzle? I see that is flexible, but in the same time it is just a compatibility and optimization disaster. Can't people just take care of what has been already created, cleaned from old stuff and optimize? DM and DE still have problems with miltiscreen config - fix them first that people could work.
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Do not understand. What's the point of creating such a puzzle? I see that is flexible, but in the same time it is just a compatibility and optimization disaster. Can't people just take care of what has been already created, cleaned from old stuff and optimize? DM and DE still have problems with miltiscreen config - fix them first that people could work.
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Александр
Hello, thank you for the video.
I noticed that xmobar instances multiply when xmonad is restarted. I don't understand that line of haskel code that starts xmobar, but why not use spawnOnce, just like with picom and wallpaper. I did this and it works fine
myStartupHook = do
spawnOnce -xmobar /home/far/.config/xmobar/xmobar.config-
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Hello, thank you for the video.
I noticed that xmobar instances multiply when xmonad is restarted. I don't understand that line of haskel code that starts xmobar, but why not use spawnOnce, just like with picom and wallpaper. I did this and it works fine
myStartupHook = do
spawnOnce -xmobar /home/far/.config/xmobar/xmobar.config-
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baddealrage
This is very satisfying when you finaly get xrandr and xmobar working. After this hudge quick start I will be able to play arround with xmonad. Can't wait to compare your final script and see how I can improve my environement.
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This is very satisfying when you finaly get xrandr and xmobar working. After this hudge quick start I will be able to play arround with xmonad. Can't wait to compare your final script and see how I can improve my environement.
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UFO
DT, I just replaced font like you did at 35:48 in 6our video. Then wrote it and did super + Q and now I have like a super imposed xmobqr on top of another one with the larger font under the normal one. Any idea what happened there??
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DT, I just replaced font like you did at 35:48 in 6our video. Then wrote it and did super + Q and now I have like a super imposed xmobqr on top of another one with the larger font under the normal one. Any idea what happened there??
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RedGeoBlaze
Well I only just switched to BSPWM a week ago, and I've been enjoying it very much, but yeah, I might as well start looking into a new one. I don't see no ring. This is Linux, I've got 8 DEs and WMs on my system right now.
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Well I only just switched to BSPWM a week ago, and I've been enjoying it very much, but yeah, I might as well start looking into a new one. I don't see no ring. This is Linux, I've got 8 DEs and WMs on my system right now.
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