Editing Installing xmonad log applet (section)

===Preparing for the install===
This is a highly experimental application that's seen very little testing. However, it's also small, simple, and unlikely to break other parts of your system. From here on in I'll assume you're comfortable installing unsupported gnome components outside your package manager's control. Unfortunately, so far as I know they must be installed to locations owned by gnome.

To compile the applet you will require a new enough gnu toolchain, libc, some additional C development files, and the applet source. To run it you will need xmonad, xmonad-contrib, ghc, and the [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/DBus hackage DBus package]. If you have extremely limited disk space it's possible to build the applet on another host and simply install it on the small device, however that's outside the scope of this discussion.

So once you've made up your mind regarding these requirements, acquire the version of xmonad log applet source code that best meets your needs:

====Choosing an applet version====
Typically distros install gnome applets either to a libexec directory or to lib/gnome-applets. If your system uses libexec you will want to use the stable tarball build, if your system (like ubuntu karmic) uses lib/gnome-applets use the git version. For other setups you will need to edit the Makefile.in to match your install paths before running the configure script (see [[#Installing the applet]]).

To find your applet path, you can use locate, slocate, find, etc. with some applet you know was installed with your gnome-panel:

 then@there $ # this system would use stable build tarball
 then@there $ slocate gnome-keyboard-applet
 /usr/libexec/gnome-keyboard-applet

 now@here $ # this system would use git version
 now@here $ locate null_applet
 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/null_applet

Get the applet source of your choice by downloading and unpacking the tarball, or git cloning the git tree from the links on [http://uhsure.com/xmonad-log-applet.html the xmonad-log-applet web page].