On Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:29:28 +0100 Paul van der Walt <p...@denknerd.org> 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
