From 73bf2519939bbcc7ca892693b97f04d673c436d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Don Stewart Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:19:31 +0100 Subject: polish readme darcs-hash:20071116181931-cba2c-136a2f5d7c717330abd0a41573001e9fb906326d --- README | 21 +++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 15bee40..86c7afe 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -15,7 +15,12 @@ Building: Building is quite straightforward, and requries a basic Haskell toolchain. - We'll walk through the complete list of toolchain dependencies. + 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 + 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 @@ -120,19 +125,19 @@ XMonadContrib Other useful programs: - For a program dispatch menu: + A nicer xterm replacment, that supports resizing better: - dmenu http://www.suckless.org/download/ - or - gmrun (in your package system) + urxvt http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html For custom status bars: - dzen http://gotmor.googlepages.com/dzen + dzen http://gotmor.googlepages.com/dzen + xmobar http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmobar - A nicer xterm replacment, that supports resizing better: + For a program dispatch menu: - urxvt http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html + dmenu http://www.suckless.org/download/ + gmrun (in your package system) Authors: -- cgit v1.2.3