[aklug] Re: xmonad

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Christopher Howard wrote:

> 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.

:-) There's no way my little laptop is going to handle the Gnome
monstrosity, but it's good to know it's there. Sounds like it's probably
fully EWMH compliant. Post your links when you can.

What's the vsize of the wm when running?

         --Arthur Corliss
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Received on Wed Apr 13 09:27:45 2011