This repository contains my XMonad [] configuration. I thought I'd share it with the rest of the world because I'm doing a few interesting things:

1. I use cabal sandboxes to build XMonad and compile my configuration into an executable (xmonadrc). This means I don't have to rely on packages from my operating system vendor and I also don't have to install any packages in ~/.cabal, which I'm likely to delete at some point when I get into cabal hell.

   This presents an interesting challenge since XMonad by default tries to compile your ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs file when it starts. Therefore I install my generated xmonadrc binary where XMonad expects it and use .cabal-sandbox/bin/xmonad to restart the running XMonad. I've also updated my ~/.xinitrc to exec my xmonadrc directly without using the xmonad binary.

   All the details for this process are in the GNUmakefile.

2. The checkrc executable that is built with cabal boots a mini XMoand environment in order to test my configuration before restarting XMonad. Right now it's only testing the key bindings.

3. The majority of my key bindings are underneath a prefix key: C-z. Being a long time user of tools like GNU screen, tmux, and Emacs, I've become very accustomed to prefix keys. I quite like them.

• xmonadrc.hs: This is where the main function lives.

• src/XMonad/Local/Action.hs: Event handling. I have an interesting function in there called focusFollowsTiledOnly that enables focus-follows-mouse in the tiled layer but not in the floating layer. I found that:

  focus-follows-mouse + update-pointer + floating-windows = weird-stuff
  

• src/XMonad/Local/Keys.hs: All of my key bindings, grouped by functionality.

• src/XMonad/Local/Layout.hs: Layout rules.

• src/XMonad/Local/Log.hs: Log hook, window fading, writing XMonad status information to xmobar.

• src/XMonad/Local/Music.hs: Functions to switch radio stations and select albums to play in MPD.

• src/XMonad/Local/Prompt.hs: XPrompt configuration.

• src/XMonad/Local/Workspaces.hs: The names of my workspaces plus some functions that decide if the workspace name should show up in xmobar and to convert workspace names into key bindings.

If you are interested in using cabal to build your XMonad configuration then you might also be interested in the following outline of the steps I take to build, install, and restart XMonad.

1. Install the Haskell Platform [].

2. Install cabal-install >= 0.18:

   $ cabal update $ cabal install cabal-install

3. Use the GNUmakefile and xmonadrc.cabal files in this directory to build your XMonad configuration.

   $ make

4. Install and restart XMonad (assumes XMonad is currently running):

   $ make restart

The details about how this works are in the GNUmakefile (correctly naming the xmonad executable, installing, restarting) and xmonadrc.cabal (which source files are included, build dependencies, etc.)