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authorDon Stewart <dons@galois.com>2007-11-16 19:19:31 +0100
committerDon Stewart <dons@galois.com>2007-11-16 19:19:31 +0100
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Building:
Building is quite straightforward, and requries a basic Haskell toolchain.
- We'll walk through the complete list of toolchain dependencies.
+ On many systems xmonad is available as a binary package in your
+ package system (e.g. on debian or gentoo). If at all possible, use this
+ in preference to a source build, as the dependency resolution will be
+ simpler.
+
+ We'll now walk through the complete list of toolchain dependencies.
* GHC: the Glasgow Haskell Compiler
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Other useful programs:
- For a program dispatch menu:
+ A nicer xterm replacment, that supports resizing better:
- dmenu http://www.suckless.org/download/
- or
- gmrun (in your package system)
+ urxvt http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html
For custom status bars:
- dzen http://gotmor.googlepages.com/dzen
+ dzen http://gotmor.googlepages.com/dzen
+ xmobar http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmobar
- A nicer xterm replacment, that supports resizing better:
+ For a program dispatch menu:
- urxvt http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html
+ dmenu http://www.suckless.org/download/
+ gmrun (in your package system)
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