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wolfspaw

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Registered: 2010-08-28

Posts: 15

[Solved]How to proper configure and prepare X (xorg) for xMonad?

Ok, after installing arch i played a lot with the terminal apps and found to be very fun and cool.
(After entering in my wireless with wpa_supplicant i founded about wicd-curses, and it's a
great network manager!)

But now i have some doubts about Xorg.

I installed my video driver( xf86-video-intel ) , xorg, xorg-server.

For testing i did "startx" , it worked opening a very minimal (err... but ugly)
"desktop" with 3 terminals and a clock. I guess that's the expected behaviour.

But before it i could do "alt+F[1-7]" to change my terminals.  And that stopped
to work.  Also when i do "quit" in X , it doesn't quit. It just takes out the borders
of the apps and hang on there.

I want to set up a Minimalist enviroment, using only xMonad as window manager.
(something like that http://haskell.org/sitewiki/images/e/ed … enshot.png)

My doubts are:

1. Do i need to do additional configurations to X before installing xMonad? (i read that before people
used hwd, but now the xorg.conf is deprecated)

2. Is it better to get xMonad from AUR or from pacman ?

Last edited by wolfspaw (2010-08-31 19:51:29)

jt512

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Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 262

Re: [Solved]How to proper configure and prepare X (xorg) for xMonad?

From within an X session you have to use Ctl-Alt-F[1-6] to switch to a virtual terminal.

Re Q1: No.

Re Q2: Not sure.  I use Xmonad-darcs from AUR because there was some feature that I needed (I don't even recall what).  I would suggest using the one from the official repository, unless you find you need something special.  I think you'll find upgrades will be easier.

Last edited by jt512 (2010-08-31 03:42:57)

fsckd

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Registered: 2009-06-15

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Re: [Solved]How to proper configure and prepare X (xorg) for xMonad?

I use xmonad from community and it works fine for my needs.

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Re: [Solved]How to proper configure and prepare X (xorg) for xMonad?

All you need to do is download xmonad from the official repos (via pacman, unless you have reason not to) and insert:

exec /usr/bin/xmonad

into a file named .xinitrc in your home directory (you can create it if it isn't already there), which is what is executed after you type startx.

After that, it's configuration, configuration, and more configuration.

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wolfspaw

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Registered: 2010-08-28

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Re: [Solved]How to proper configure and prepare X (xorg) for xMonad?

Thanks!

The repository one seems up to date, got it.

I did startx, and then xmonad in a terminal and a big error ocurred.  I'll read the documentation and start the configuration, configuration, configuration xD