Comments on: xmonad install on OpenSUSE 11.2 http://www.linuxgeek.ca/wordpress/?p=202 Long Live the Penguin and Beastie Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:43:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: john http://www.linuxgeek.ca/wordpress/?p=202&cpage=1#comment-10835 john Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:43:21 +0000 http://www.linuxgeek.ca/wordpress/?p=202#comment-10835 Thanks for the updated notes. I'm actually making the move to Arch Linux. Only machine left on OpenSUSE is my home machine. Xmonad works really well on Arch and the configuration is an absolute breeze - http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xmonad Thanks for the updated notes. I’m actually making the move to Arch Linux. Only machine left on OpenSUSE is my home machine. Xmonad works really well on Arch and the configuration is an absolute breeze – http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xmonad

]]> By: Mike http://www.linuxgeek.ca/wordpress/?p=202&cpage=1#comment-10834 Mike Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:42:18 +0000 http://www.linuxgeek.ca/wordpress/?p=202#comment-10834 Thanks John, this went smoothly! Some notes I took when I tried this (openSUSE 11.2): * need to install <code>xorg-x11-lib<em>X</em>11-devel</code> (capital X in libX11). I was installing via zypper and it kept saying "xorg-x11-libx11-devel not found". * install cabal as above. I was surprised by compiler warnings, after reading about Xmonad design and empasis on -Wall, but then I realised I was compiling cabal, so no concern * update cabal with <code>$ ~/.cabal/bin/<em>caba</em>l update</code> * after Update, cabal told me there was a new cabal-install, which I installed (after the symlink above), with <code>$ cabal install cabal-install</code> * installing xmonad: some compiler warnings when building the X11 lib, but again, not xmonad per se * installing xmonad-contrib, no issues (this is where I was expecting trouble) * you can probably fiddle with the WINDOWMANAGER system variable to switch between xmonad and kwin/metacity. I haven't tried this yet Thanks John, this went smoothly!

Some notes I took when I tried this (openSUSE 11.2):

* need to install xorg-x11-libX11-devel (capital X in libX11). I was installing via zypper and it kept saying “xorg-x11-libx11-devel not found”.
* install cabal as above. I was surprised by compiler warnings, after reading about Xmonad design and empasis on -Wall, but then I realised I was compiling cabal, so no concern
* update cabal with $ ~/.cabal/bin/cabal update
* after Update, cabal told me there was a new cabal-install, which I installed (after the symlink above), with $ cabal install cabal-install
* installing xmonad: some compiler warnings when building the X11 lib, but again, not xmonad per se
* installing xmonad-contrib, no issues (this is where I was expecting trouble)
* you can probably fiddle with the WINDOWMANAGER system variable to switch between xmonad and kwin/metacity. I haven’t tried this yet

]]> By: Dan Arbeau http://www.linuxgeek.ca/wordpress/?p=202&cpage=1#comment-10825 Dan Arbeau Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:20:56 +0000 http://www.linuxgeek.ca/wordpress/?p=202#comment-10825 Here is an alternate way to get <a href="http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2009/03/17/introduction-to-the-xmonad-tiling-window-manager/" title="xmonad on ubuntu" rel="nofollow">xmonad running with ubuntu 9.10 </a> Hope this helps as well. Here is an alternate way to get xmonad running with ubuntu 9.10

Hope this helps as well.

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