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13:11:18 <geekosaur> wheeeee
13:12:11 <geekosaur> today I try to get xmonad running on the new laptop. got to blow most of an hour just getting to the point of starting; suspect I won't be finishing
13:12:31 <geekosaur> (and then there's changing everything else for new cabal but that's another story)
13:14:06 <geekosaur> also discovering random bugs in other things while going, which will be "fun" if they manifest when I go to integrate xmonad with MATE
13:15:48 <Liskni_si> :-)
13:16:11 Liskni_si is happy to not be the only one who keeps discovering everything is totally broken all the time
13:16:56 <mc47> "fun" :D
13:16:58 geekosaur *still* needs to make "human fuzzer" Tshirts
13:18:45 <geekosaur> like, when I start the session there's no window manager. at least there's a panel, so I can pop a terminal and run marco (until I get xmonad up, of course)
13:20:20 <geekosaur> hm, come to think of it the wm setting is part of the saved session, which means it's failing to start xmonad :)
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14:36:44 <Solid> I think I would go insane if I discoreved as many bugs as you people :D
14:37:14 <geekosaur> heh. I have an xmonad that will load, but no ghc yet so it won't recompile. to say nothing of updating to current git (which I have only just installed — git, that is)
14:37:46 <Solid> that's progress at least
14:38:21 <geekosaur> getting a machine from initial install to usability with xmonad takes a fair amount of work :/
14:38:54 <geekosaur> well, granted, I'm restoring an environment that's rather more than just xmonad, plus my xmonad setup is customized
14:40:19 <Liskni_si> Solid: well, we *did* get insane.
14:40:37 <Solid> hah
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14:58:47 <mc47> sooooo.... I've created another module like X.H.DynamicBars that uses the new abstraction in #443, with some more changes in X.H.DynamicLog (mainly what we discussed yesterday)
14:59:05 <mc47> I'm not sure how to advance with this
14:59:28 <mc47> should I wait for #443 to be sorted out, or add to the same PR, or open another Draft PR?
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15:19:59 <Liskni_si> I'd say new PR is best, #443 is full of comments and so on and probably almost ready to merge (I haven't seen the last round of changes but it's something I'm trying to get to soon)
15:20:58 <geekosaur> I'd second a new PR
15:36:15 <mc47> A new PR it is
15:36:22 <mc47> I'll cleanup a bit and submit it
15:36:23 <mc47> thanks!
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17:19:35 <endiruna> hello. how can I bind a key to go to next non empty workspace ?
17:20:07 <endiruna> i am looking into CycleWS but I did not manage
17:27:13 <Liskni_si> endiruna: I'd expect "doTo Next NonEmptyWS" to do this, does it not work
17:27:15 <Liskni_si> ?
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17:37:12 <endiruna> doTo?
17:37:20 <endiruna> ok
17:39:09 <geekosaur> goTo, I think. but what did you try and what happened instead of what you wanted?
17:39:12 <Liskni_si> oh, moveTo
17:39:37 <Liskni_si> hands are faster than brains these days :-)
17:40:04 <geekosaur> actually moveTo, yeh
17:40:25 <geekosaur> which sounds wrong but the action you might think of for "move" is actually called "shift" in xmonad
17:41:03 geekosaur had to dig out his own usage of it to see what the correct one was
18:26:19 <geekosaur> aaaand I just tripped over a new zsh bug (add a nonexistent dir to $PATH and the whole PATH var gets nuked)
18:31:33 <geekosaur> …I have a dep on dbus, which causes it to build half of Hackage
18:31:42 <geekosaur> (including a lens dependency, woo)
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18:41:46 <geekosaur> does this look familiar to anyone?
18:41:51 <geekosaur> X11-1.9.2: library-dirs: @X_LIBRARIES@ is a relative path which makes no sense
18:41:52 <geekosaur> (as there is nothing for it to be relative to). You can make paths relative to
18:41:52 <geekosaur> the package database itself by using ${pkgroot}. (use --force to override)
18:42:29 <geekosaur> oh, probably needs aclocal
18:44:37 <geekosaur> it's not quite load and go. have to track this for my -testing updates
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18:57:46 <geekosaur> mm, autoreconf is not enough to get X11 to build (actually install) without an error about X_LIBRRARIES as above
19:03:36 <geekosaur> sigh, it doesn't fail with a v1-style configure, which makes it a Cabal issue of some kind
19:15:16 geekosaur files a couple of issues, the second being a minor doc nit
19:18:19 <geekosaur> well, apparently I'm not doing this with cabal v2, so not updating those instructions until we have an X11 that builds with v2
19:23:15 <geekosaur> oddly, v1-install complains about data-default, but once that's manually installed it installs a bunch of other deps itself
19:23:23 <geekosaur> sounds like we missed one somewhere
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19:24:39 <geekosaur> oh, never mind, ran it in the wrong directory. oddly, it's happoy to v1-install a v2-package
19:24:46 <geekosaur> (which I will regret, probably)
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19:30:12 <Solid> :)
19:32:06 <Solid> I see there'll be at least 20 new bug reports in various free softare projects over the next few days :>
19:33:36 <Liskni_si> makes one wonder how all the other people install it :-)
19:38:07 <geekosaur> package manager :)
19:38:42 <geekosaur> install instructions for X11 pkg don't work with cabal 3, for that matter, since that uses new-install by default
19:39:01 <geekosaur> which will then faill the way I just reported
19:40:06 <geekosaur> so anyway I am now up and running (sortamaybe: it runs but is not integrated yet, I started it manually) using v1-install
19:40:18 <geekosaur> need a build script and proper MATE integration
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19:56:05 <geekosaur> done, I think. won't be tested until tomorrow though
20:03:26 <geekosaur> mod-q works, at least
20:08:10 <Liskni_si> project status: "the most senior maintainer still around can almost get it built and running in a day" :-D
20:09:19 <geekosaur> heh
20:09:54 <geekosaur> new cabal is going to be an issue, though :/
20:10:14 <geekosaur> granting most folks don't build from git, but X11 not wanting to v2-install is a problem
20:11:08 <geekosaur> we can tell folks to explicitly v1-install stuff, but this is temporary hackaround
20:11:30 <geekosaur> (and in my case a bad one since I now have a bunch of gunk installed "globally")
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20:23:00 mc47 never understood why cabal is so complicated
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20:40:07 <geekosaur> you haven't seen what's underneath C autoconf scripts :)
20:41:49 <Liskni_si> geekosaur: is it not an issue when building from the tar on hackage?
20:42:23 <geekosaur> I haven't tried, I used the git release because I think there are a few changes needed for git xmonad+contrib
20:42:56 <Liskni_si> there aren't, yet
20:43:02 <Liskni_si> none of that is merged
20:43:04 <geekosaur> but the instructions are still going to do a v2-build instead of a v1-build, which will break everywhere because everything else assumes a v1-install
20:43:38 <geekosaur> which is why I suspect most people get it from a package manager
20:43:44 <Liskni_si> but the only difference between git and tarball is the existence of "configure", I think
20:44:08 <geekosaur> I ran autoreconf, it's still broken (everything I can see is properly substituted)
20:44:22 <geekosaur> v1-install works after autoreconf
20:44:39 <geekosaur> v2-install gets that error, including the implicit one when doing v2-build of xmonad
20:44:53 <Liskni_si> so I'd think v2 would be broken even when installing from tarball, is what I'm trying to say
20:45:11 <geekosaur> which means it's also not related to env files like so many cabal infelicities/bugs
20:45:23 <geekosaur> it probably is. but I only tested from git
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20:49:19 <brttmsn> is there a good tutorial for writing your own xmonad config somewhere?
20:49:32 <brttmsn> or videos on how to add certain features/functions?
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20:51:19 <geekosaur> I don't think there's an up to date one. there's one from 0.9 on the wiki
20:52:29 <mc47> brttmsn distrotube made some vidoes about xmonad recently
20:53:30 <brttmsn> yeah im looking over his but he doesnt really go into how to get certain libs and functions working. Like i wanna use the EZconfig lib so i can go from the default modm thing to just M-s-r to restart xmonad
20:55:47 <mc47> Did you take a look at the documentation? Most modules have pretty good documentation and examples
20:55:55 <brttmsn> im trying
20:56:25 <geekosaur> most of the documentation is more helpful if you already know Haskell :)
20:57:05 <mc47> I guess that's true :D
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21:01:34 <geekosaur> I could point you to a slightly out of date version of my config, but there's a lot going on in there
21:01:40 <mc47> I guess if you add: "`additionalKeysP` [("M-S-r", spawn "xmonad --restart"), ... ]" (replacing "..." with the rest of your keybindings) at the end of your config, it should work
21:02:18 <mc47> Like this https://gitlab.com/dwt1/dotfiles/-/blob/master/.xmonad/xmonad.hs#L952 (took it from dt's dotfiles)
21:02:18 <geekosaur> https://github.com/geekosaur/xmonad.hs/blob/pyanfar/xmonad.hs#L188
21:03:31 mc47 quickly steals `putEnv "_JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1"` to his config
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21:11:07 <geekosaur> oh, I have a saved email from hvr which implies that someone has managed to new-install xmonad at some point, which implies new-install of X11 as well (that being how I hit the error) so apparently this used to work. possibly broke with cabal 3, though
21:11:42 <geekosaur> hm, no, the issue is about cabal 3. so I wonder when things broke
21:11:44 <geekosaur> https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/issues/199#issuecomment-609433196
21:12:15 <geekosaur> this is what I was going to work from in configuring my xmonad, although I wanted to do a proper cabal 3 setup first
21:17:46 <brttmsn> Well i think im going to try and completely rewrite my config
21:18:19 <brttmsn> i want to be able to use the EZConfig thing so i can replace that whole convulated way of writing shortcuts with something way more simple
21:49:12 <brttmsn> okay this is confusing me
21:51:07 <geekosaur> yes?
21:57:33 <brttmsn> every time i fix one error another one creeps up
21:57:42 <brttmsn> this one is about myLogHook = return ()
21:59:24 <brttmsn> i havent made any changes about myLogHook or anything that i can think of. All im trying to do is add in my key bindings
22:01:09 <geekosaur> that may be indentation, haskell is indentation sensitive. or youdropped a bracket somewhere so it's trying to read other stuff as part of your keybinds
22:01:58 geekosaur is not going to be around much longer, must leave soon
22:02:27 <brttmsn> i wish i could c/p my xmonad.hs file im working on so u could see if i messed up somewhere
22:02:58 <geekosaur> @where paste
22:02:58 <lambdabot> Help us help you: please paste full code, input and/or output at eg https://paste.tomsmeding.com
22:04:59 <brttmsn> https://paste.tomsmeding.com/fCweOsF5
22:05:04 <brttmsn> thats what ive got so far
22:06:13 <geekosaur> myEventHook should be return (All True) as the comment above it says
22:06:23 <geekosaur> an empty Map would be a type error
22:08:29 <Liskni_si> or just mempty :-)
22:09:37 <geekosaur> or idHook
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