Xmonad profile manager for Gnome

More easily manageable xmonad profiles. For now, it supports two distributions:

Ubuntu
Arch

Installation

Requires:

Git for cloning
GHCup
Cabal, preferably installed via GHCup

These should be installed for the manager to function.

Recommended:

Gnome desktop environment

Procedure:

git clone this repository at suitable location to manage the profiles inside.
cd xmonad-profiles to get into the repo directory.
Run ./install.sh to install xmonad-manage.
- Likely requires granting executable permission.
- Adds xmonad-manage executable /opt/bin. This might change in near future.
Run xmonad-manage setup to install required components.
Run xmonad-manage install <profile-path> to install the specified profile.
- Currently supported profiles: pulpmonad, xmonad-test

This procedure automatically installs profiles in /usr/share/xsessions/, which you can select from the login screen.

XMonad-Manage

xmonad-manage is a tool to manage xmonad profiles.

xmonad-manage setup: Installs common components.
xmonad-manage install <profile-path>: Installs profile from <profile-path>.
xmonad-manage build <profile-id>: Builds config for profile <profile-id>
xmonad-manage run <profile-id>: Runs XMonad instance of profile <profile-id>

Run xmonad-manage to check further details.

XMonad-Test

xmonad-test is a reference profile for xmonad-manage. Consult its files to see how to make a profile.

Notes

Removal

NB: Manager removal method is not yet supported; this is due to cabal lacking uninstall/gc methods.

If you don't mind nuking the haskell stores, you can remove the xmonad-profiles directory and $HOME/.ghcup, $HOME/.cabal to do the cleanup.

You might also want to clean up ${XDG_DATA_DIR}/xmonad-manage, which contains small data files.

NB: Starting in version 0.8.0.0, xmonad-manage is installed in /usr/local/ directory. Search for xmonad-manage there to see which directories it was installed to.