Installing XMonad on Gentoo

I have already installed Gentoo with a Kernel supporting NVidia graphics cards using the open-source Nouveau driver. I also have a working installation of Xorg server.

Now all that’s left to do now is install XMonad!

emerge --ask xmonad xmonad-contrib

Notes that will probably be removed/deleted

The above pulled in a lot of additional software and took quite a long time to complete. However, all seemed to work. Here I should mention about how to start and link to command/cheatsheet etc. Include .xinitrc and how .xsession does not work (should be removed it present).

After that I decided to install firefox. That too pulled in a lot of software and took ages to complete. More so than the above! I did need to add the following to package.use.

=/dev-lang/python-2.7.5 sqlite

After the installation, I saw the below Portage warning messages.

* For more information on udev on Gentoo, upgrading, writing udev rules, and
*     fixing know issues visit:
*     http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev
*     http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev/upgrade

* Messages for package sys-fs/udisks-2..1.0:

*    CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND:               is not set when it should be.
*    Please check to make sure these options are set correctly.
*    Failure to do so may cause unexpected problems.

* Messages for  package media-video/mjpegtools-2.0.0-r3:

* mjpegtools installs user contributed scripts which require additional
* dependencies not pulled in by the installation.
* These have to be installed manually.
* Currently know extra dependencies are: ffmpeg, mencoder from mplayer,
* parts of transcode, mpeg2dec from libmpeg2, sox, toolame, vcdimager, python.

* Messages for package app-misc/strigi-0.7.7-r2:

* Because you didn't enable either of the available backends:
* clucene or hyerestraier, strigi may not be functional.
* If you indend to use standalone strigi indexer (not needed for KDE),
* be sure to reinstall app-misc/strigi with either cluence (recommended)
* or hyperestraier (unreliable) USE flag enabled.

* Message for package sys-auth/polkit-kde-agent-0.99.0-r1:

* WARNING! Your system configuration contains neither "kde-base/kdebase-runtime-meta"
* nor "kde-base/kde-base-startkde".  You need one of the above.
* With this setting you are unsupported by the KDE team.
* All missing features you report for misc packages will be probably ignored for closed as INVALID.

I made the above kernel change on the next next kernel upgrade but as far as I could tell XMonad seemed to work fine without it anyway.

Resources

Arguments With My Friends – How to Install Xmonad on Gentoo
http://awmf.blogspot.co.uk/2007/08/how-to-install-xmonad-on-gentoo.html

Haskell.org – Tutorials
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Tutorials

learnyouahaskell.com – Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters

Gentoo Wiki – Xmonad
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xmonad

Haskell.org – Xmonad/Installing xmonad
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Installing_xmonad

Haskell.org – Xmonad/Basic Desktop Environment Integration
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Basic_Desktop_Environment_Integration

Wikipedia – xmonad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmonad

Think In Geek – Simple guide to configure xmonad, dzen2 and conky
http://thinkingeek.com/2011/11/21/simple-guide-configure-xmonad-dzen2-conky/

Wikipedia – Conky (software)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conky_(software)

Gentoo Wiki – rxvt-unicode
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Rxvt-unicode

Haskell.org – Xmonad/General xmonad.hs config tips
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/General_xmonad.hs_config_tips

Haskell.org – Xmonad/Config archive/John Goerzen’s Configuration
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive/John_Goerzen%27s_Configuration

ArchLinux – Xmonad
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xmonad

Haskell.org – Xmonad/Frequently asked questions
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Frequently_asked_questions#Replacing_greedyView_with_view

How-To Geek – How to use Xmonad, a Tiling Window Manager for Linux
http://www.howtogeek.com/114728/how-to-use-xmonad-a-tiling-window-manager-for-linux/

Huntly Cameron Web Stuffs – How-to: Set up XMonad & XMobar on Ubuntu
http://www.huntlycameron.co.uk/2010/11/how-to-set-up-xmonad-xmobar-ubuntu/

Haskell.org – Xmonad/Using xmonad in Gnome
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_Gnome

Xmonad.org – XMonad.Config.Gnome
http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Config-Gnome.html

Xmonad.org – XMonad.Layout.PerWorkspace
http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Layout-PerWorkspace.html

Xmonad.org – xmonad-0.11 manual
http://xmonad.org/manpage.html

Xmonad.org – A guided tour
http://xmonad.org/tour.html

ArchLinux – dmenu
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dmenu

ArchLinux – Gmrun
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gmrun

Haskell.org – Xmonad/Using xmonad in KDE
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_KDE

Xmonad.org – XMonad.Config.Kde
http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Config-Kde.html

Xmonad.org – XMonad.Doc.Configuring
http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Doc-Configuring.html

cgogolin.de – sample xmonad.hs by Christian Gogolin
http://www.cgogolin.de/downloads/xmonad.hs

Shinobu’s Secrets – Tag Archives: xmonad
http://zuttobenkyou.wordpress.com/tag/xmonad/