[aklug] Re: xmonad

Hi Chris

Can you outline or point me to the procedure to integrate xmonad with gnome?

Thanks

On 04/12/2011 06:13 PM, Christopher Howard wrote:
> 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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Received on Tue Apr 19 20:22:44 2011