[aklug] Re: xmonad

On 04/12/2011 10:34 AM, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Shane R. Spencer wrote:
>
> Chris: I look forward to hearing more of your experience with xmonad. With
> my little toughbook only having an 800x600 resolution tiling window managers
> are at the top of my wish list. Xmonad is at the top of that sublist, I
> just haven't gotten around to rolling up a haskell package yet.
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die

Been using Xmonad on my two-screen display at home, and I've been loving
it. As I mentioned earlier, it is fully Xinerama aware, so it doesn't
get confused by the multiple displays. I had VLC playing a music video,
a few remotes shells following my server logs, and Firefox opened up to
my blog site, and it was all so simple and easy to manage.

My biggest leap today was when I learned that Xmonad can be used as a
drop-in replacement for Gnome's Metacity. All I had to do is create one
small file and run a gconf command, and suddenly I had a full-fledged
Gnome desktop plus tiling windows management. This was convenient
because then I was able to keep using the keyboard shortcuts, status
bar, and other integrated apps I had configured under Gnome.

Some time this week I'm going to try to put some screen shots on my site.

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