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Re: Xmonad and ghc-xmonad-contrib
From: |
Eric Bavier |
Subject: |
Re: Xmonad and ghc-xmonad-contrib |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Nov 2015 18:22:59 -0600 |
On Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:29:28 +0100
Paul van der Walt <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Guix,
>
> I'm writing to ask how to configure Xmonad on GuixSD. I've got GuixSD
> (version 0.9.0 ^^) installed and working in a VM, so that's cool. I've
> also got the following in my config.scm:
>
> (packages (cons* xfce
> nss-certs ; for HTTPS access
> xmobar ; added in my local git-checkout of Guix
> openssh
> ghc
> xmonad
> ghc-network
> ghc-xmonad-contrib
> %base-packages))
>
> This is nice, because at the login screen i can select xmonad as my
> window manager. However, it cannot compile my ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs file,
> since (among many others) it gives the following error:
>
> xmonad.hs:35:8:
> Could not find module `XMonad.Layout.NoBorders'
> Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
This is a known shortfall in our current xmonad. See
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-09/msg00295.html
I appreciate the xmobar patches you sent, btw. It would certainly be
nice if one could configure their xmonad to use it. :)
> Et cetera. I think this is because of the fact that ghc-xmonad-contrib
> isn't properly made available. See the output of `ghc-pkg list` run as
> my normal user:
>
> /gnu/store/1iwl222h2qw80fyr578sdjdki0pbcjm0-ghc-7.10.2/lib/ghc-7.10.2/package.conf.d:
> Cabal-1.22.4.0
> array-0.5.1.0
> base-4.8.1.0
> bin-package-db-0.0.0.0
> binary-0.7.5.0
> rts-1.0
> bytestring-0.10.6.0
> containers-0.5.6.2
> deepseq-1.4.1.1
> directory-1.2.2.0
> filepath-1.4.0.0
> (ghc-7.10.2)
> ghc-prim-0.4.0.0
> haskeline-0.7.2.1
> hoopl-3.10.0.2
> hpc-0.6.0.2
> integer-gmp-1.0.0.0
> pretty-1.1.2.0
> process-1.2.3.0
> template-haskell-2.10.0.0
> terminfo-0.4.0.1
> time-1.5.0.1
> transformers-0.4.2.0
> unix-2.7.1.0
> xhtml-3000.2.1
>
> Notably, the glaring omissions are `network` and `xmonad-contrib`. Does
> anyone actually use Xmonad, and if so, how did they make it work? In my
> local Guix-git repository i also tried making all the Xmonad inputs
> propagated but that didn't change anything.
It doesn't change anything because the current ghc doesn't know to look
in user profiles for libraries.
> Any ideas? Does this mean that the package.conf.d creation is
> completely broken? Note that if i do `guix package -i ghc-network`,
> that doesn't influence the output of `ghc-pkg list` at all...
And the same for `ghc-pkg list`. I think the ghc-native-search-path
commit in the 'core-update' branch should fix some/most of these
issues. If you have some spare cpu cycles, then you could check
whether xmonad configuration works better on that branch. I just
started a VM build myself.
`~Eric