[aklug] Re: xmonad

This feels like a sin.

On 04/19/2011 08:22 PM, Jim wrote:
> 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 Wed Apr 20 08:54:57 2011