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@@ -26,16 +26,16 @@ Building: Building is quite straightforward, and requires a basic Haskell toolchain. On many systems xmonad is available as a binary package in your - package system (e.g. on debian or gentoo). If at all possible, use this + package system (e.g. on Debian or Gentoo). If at all possible, use this in preference to a source build, as the dependency resolution will be simpler. We'll now walk through the complete list of toolchain dependencies. * GHC: the Glasgow Haskell Compiler - + You first need a Haskell compiler. Your distribution's package - system will have binaries of GHC (the Glasgow Haskell Compiler), the + system will have binaries of GHC (the Glasgow Haskell Compiler), the compiler we use, so install that first. If your operating system's package system doesn't provide a binary version of GHC, you can find them here: @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Building: apt-get install ghc6 - It shouldn't be necessary to compile GHC from source -- every common + It shouldn't be necessary to compile GHC from source -- every common system has a pre-build binary version. * X11 libraries: @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Building: Typically you need: libXinerama libXext libX11 * Cabal - + xmonad requires a recent version of Cabal, >= 1.2.0. If you're using GHC 6.8, then it comes bundled with the right version. If you're using GHC 6.6.x, you'll need to build and install Cabal from hackage @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Building: unix http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/unix X11 http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11 - * Build xmonad: + * Build xmonad: Once you've got all the dependencies in place (which should be straightforward), build xmonad: @@ -128,14 +128,14 @@ XMonadContrib Other useful programs: - A nicer xterm replacment, that supports resizing better: + A nicer xterm replacement, that supports resizing better: urxvt http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html For custom status bars: dzen http://gotmor.googlepages.com/dzen - xmobar http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmobar + xmobar http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmobar For a program dispatch menu: |