dotxmonad: A Haskell repository from bbarker

Building

After cloning, initialize submodules:

git submodule init
git submodule update

Link $HOME/.xmonad to this repo:

ln -s ~/workspace/dotxmonad .xmonad

General notes

When running any variation of stack build below, if a failure occurs, sometimes it helps to keep running the command over until the failure becomes goes away; often some more dependencies will install in subsequent iterations, and the error will become more clear once idempotent (e.g. narrowing down a missing system dependency).

Ubuntu

LANG should be set as follows:

export LANG=C.UTF-8

Install some deps:

stack
apt deps (potentially incomplete): sudo apt install dmenu xscreensaver x11proto-scrnsaver-dev libiw-dev libxpm-dev libasound2-dev libxft-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev libgmp-dev libxss-dev libpango1.0-dev dbus-x11
yeganesh (stack install yeganesh)

In this repo's directory, use the right build script: ln -s build_stack.sh build.

You may need to get a shell without a Nix environment to proceed (though in a more recent Nix install this wasn't necessary), assuming you have Nix installed for this user. We suggest adding a conditional around the appropriate sections of ~/.bashrc and/or ~/.profile, e.g.:

if [ -z ${NO_NIX} ]; then
    source /home/brandon/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh
fi

Now you can get the environment to build in:

env -i HOME="$HOME" USER="$USER" NO_NIX=1 bash -l

Now build all the dependencies:

stack build
stack install

Some applications may require D-BUS environment variables set, so add this to your .bashrc:

export $(dbus-launch)

Nix

In this repo's directory, use the right build script: ln -s build_stack_nix.sh build.

Run the following commands to get a working shell for the build:

Now build all the dependencies:

stack --nix build
cd xmobar-git && stack install

Untested:

nix-shell nix_stack.nix
nix-shell -p haskellPackages.xmonad
unset STACK_IN_NIX_SHELL

All Systems - Finishing Touches

ln -s $(pwd)xmobarrc ~/.xmobarrc

And finally:

xmonad --recompile && xmonad --test && xmonad --restart

Note that --test doesn't really do anything, but it doesn't restart the existing xmonad process so it should be a good way to test some runtime issues (it will just return a 'user error').

Updating xmonad, xmobar, etc.

cd xmobar-git
git remote add upstream https://codeberg.org/xmobar/xmobar.git # only once
git checkout master && git pull upstream master && git push
cd ..

cd xmonad-git
git remote add upstream https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad.git
git checkout master && git pull upstream master && git push
cd ..

cd xmonad-contrib-git
git remote add upstream https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib.git
git checkout master && git pull upstream master && git push
cd ..

git submodule foreach 'git pull origin $(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)'
git update-index

After updating and testing, don't forget to commit and push!