For packages that are compiled from source, I usually put them under /usr/local/packages/, and sym-links compiled results to upper-level /usr/local/ sub-directories. I use two scripts to do this.
MKLINK <name> makes all the links from /usr/local/packages/<name> to /usr/local/.
#!/bin/sh
if [ "$1" = "" ]
then
name=`basename $PWD`
else
name=$1
fi
echo $name
cd /usr/local/packages/$name
find bin sbin include lib man -type d -exec \
mkdir -p "/usr/local/{}" \;
find bin sbin include lib man -not -type d -exec \
ln -s "/usr/local/packages/$name/{}" "/usr/local/{}" \;
cd -
KMLINK <name> removes all links made by MKLINK. It needs /usr/local/packages/<name> to exists prior to such removal.
#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/local/packages/$1
find bin sbin include lib man -not -type d -exec \
rm -f /usr/local/{} \;
cd -
GNU Free Font is a set of nice fonts I use for browsers. Simply copy the TTF to the $HOME/.fonts/ directory, and run fc-cache -r will load them.
For Chinese font, I use a slightly shrinked version of Microsoft Yahei.
I customize URxvt in ~/.Xdefaults with the following settings. It uses DejaVu Sans Mono for Latin, and Microsoft Yahei for Chinese. and allows 3 font sizes controlled by CTRL and -, 0, and +.
URxvt.font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=13,xft:Microsoft Yahei
URxvt.keysym.C-minus: command:\033]710;xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=10,xft:Microsoft Yahei\007
URxvt.keysym.C-0: command:\033]710;xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=13,xft:Microsoft Yahei\007
URxvt.keysym.C-equal: command:\033]710;xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=16,xft:Microsoft Yahei\007
Rxvt.color12: LightSkyBlue2
URxvt.color4: SkyBlue3
URxvt.background: Black
URxvt.foreground: light gray
URxvt.jumpScroll: True
URxvt.scrollBar: False
Here is a patch generated by diff ~/.cabal/share/xmonad-0.9/man/xmonad.hs ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs.
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> import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog
> import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks
> import XMonad.Layout.LayoutModifier
> import System.IO
> import XMonad.Util.Run
> import XMonad.Prompt
> import XMonad.Prompt.Shell
>
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< myTerminal = "xterm"
---
> myTerminal = "urxvt.sh"
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< myNormalBorderColor = "#dddddd"
---
> myNormalBorderColor = "#222222"
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< , ((modm, xK_p ), spawn "exe=`dmenu_path | dmenu` && eval \"exec $exe\"")
---
> , ((modm, xK_p ), shellPrompt myXPConfig)
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< , ((modm, xK_h ), sendMessage Shrink)
---
> , ((modm, xK_s ), sendMessage Shrink)
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< , ((modm, xK_l ), sendMessage Expand)
---
> , ((modm, xK_g ), sendMessage Expand)
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< -- , ((modm , xK_b ), sendMessage ToggleStruts)
---
> , ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_b ), sendMessage ToggleStruts)
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< myLayout = tiled ||| Mirror tiled ||| Full
---
> myLayout = avoidStruts (tiled ||| Mirror tiled ||| Full)
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> --myManageHook = composeAll
> -- [ className =? "MPlayer" --> doFloat
> -- , className =? "Gimp" --> doFloat
> -- , resource =? "desktop_window" --> doIgnore
> -- , resource =? "kdesktop" --> doIgnore ]
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< , resource =? "desktop_window" --> doIgnore
< , resource =? "kdesktop" --> doIgnore ]
---
> , className =? "" --> doFloat
> , className =? "sun-awt-X11-XFramePeer" --> doFloat
> , title =? "Lambda Animator" --> doFloat
> , title =? "Virtual Keyboard ver.1.9 [129:0]" --> doFloat
> , resource =? "xfdesktop2" --> doFloat
> , resource =? "Desktop" --> doFloat
> , title =? "KPowersave" --> doIgnore
> , resource =? "kdesktop" --> doIgnore ] <+> manageDocks
>
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< myLogHook = return ()
---
> myLogHook h = dynamicLogWithPP $ defaultPP { ppOutput = hPutStrLn h }
>
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< main = xmonad defaults
---
> main = spawnPipe "xmobar" >>= xmonad . defaults
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< defaults = defaultConfig {
---
> defaults h = defaultConfig {
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< logHook = myLogHook,
---
> logHook = myLogHook h,
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>
> myXPConfig = defaultXPConfig
>
I use Xmobar for the topbar. Here is my ~/.xmobarrc. Change the weather station ID KHVN (obtained from http://weather.noaa.gov) if you are in a different city than New Haven.
Config { font = "-misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
, bgColor = "black"
, fgColor = "grey"
, position = Top
, lowerOnStart = True
, commands = [ Run StdinReader
, Run Weather "KHVN" ["-t","New Haven: <tempC>C/<tempF>F","-L","18","-H","25","--normal","green","--high","red","--low","lightblue"] 36000
, Run BatteryP ["BAT1"] [] 20
, Run Network "wlan0" ["-L","0","-H","32","--normal","green","--high","red"] 10
, Run Cpu ["-L","3","-H","50","--normal","green","--high","red"] 10
, Run Date "%a %b %_d %Y %H:%M:%S" "date" 10
]
, sepChar = "%"
, alignSep = "}{"
, template = "%StdinReader% }{ %cpu% | %KHVN% | %battery% | %wlan0% | <fc=#ee9a00>%date%</fc>"
}
The following maps Caps-Lock key to Ctrl key. Usually I put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
/usr/bin/setkeycodes 3a 29
.xsessionHere is my ~/.xsession. It starts SCIM for Chinese input, and autocutsel to sync clipboard and cutbuffer in X, although it doesn’t handle UTF–8 very well.
export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.utf8
scim -d
autocutsel -selection PRIMARY -fork
autocutsel -s CLIPBOARD -fork
PATH=/usr/local/packages/ghc-6.10.4/bin:$PATH exec xmonad
.vimrcHere is my ~/.vimrc. The last line forces Vim to relinquish mouse selection back to X.
set shiftwidth=2
set shiftround
set softtabstop=2
set expandtab
set mouse=i
For Slackware 13.1, Slackbuild supports latest Google Chrome, which in turn requires GConf and ORBit2 to be installed first.