Make sure, the following programs are installed on the machine. By default none of them is installed.
First of all the haskell compiler `ghc` is needed. This is due to you have to compile your `xmonad.hs` file to load new configurations.
sudo apt-get install ghc
The window manager xmonad is the next. You can do this, with the following command.
sudo apt-get install xmonad
Within Ubuntu 12.04LTS the xmonad version 0.10 is used. At the time of writing this post, there is a newer version: 0.11. Howto install the latest xmonad, will be handled in another article.
It is a good idea to install the `xmonad-contrib` library. This is not mandatory to run xmonad, but it's highly recommended.
(Sometimes the xmonad-contrib is installed together with xmonad)
sudo apt-get install xmonad-contrib
If you want to startup the X11 system with the `startx` command, the `xinit` package is needed.
sudo apt-get install xinit
Otherwise you have to configure your graphical logon manager (e.g. gdm or kdm) to start the xmonad window manager.
Xmonad is a window manager. It does not include any kind of information bar. However it integrates pretty well with e.g. `gnome-panel`.
sudo apt-get install gnome-panel
Alternatives would be:
One of the most used programs will be a terminal. I like to use`urxvt` as terminal. But any other terminal is fine.
sudo apt-get install urxvt
If you want to stay with gnome standard tools, `gnome-terminal` would be the one to use.