Xmonad – A dynamically tiling X11 window manager

Re:Xmonad – A dynamically tiling X11 window manager by LukeHoersten on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @04:11PM (#9336821)

For your WM you probably want to use a precompiled binary form your distro. What you're trying is equivalent of trying to get the whole gcc stack and deps to build a c-based WM. Haskell isn't a dynamic language and doesn't require anything Haskell-specific to be installed on the target system to run a binary.

If you really do want to compile your window manager from source, newer versions of cabal, the Haskell package manager, have something called sandboxes which basically remedy the problems you're talking about. I don't recommend compiling from source unless you know what you're doing though and if you're not using sandboxes, you probably don't.

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Re:Xmonad – A dynamically tiling X11 window manager by mseidl on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @05:15AM (#9339521)

I was using rpms until they broke multi-monitor support, then I switched to using cabal, which worked when I first installed it, but now it broke on it's own. And when trying to fix it several packages where broken again. For no reason. Cabal also doesn't do dependency management. So you have to try to install something, it'll complain it doesn't have X, then you have to install X, then it complains it doesn't have Y and so on.

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Re:Xmonad – A dynamically tiling X11 window manager by tome on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @04:56PM (#9337103)

Configuring XMonad requires you to recompile it.

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