xmonad 0.4 has been released. “xmonad is a tiling window manager for X. Windows are arranged automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap, maximising screen use. Window manager features are accessible from the keyboard: a mouse is optional. xmonad is written, configured and extensible in Haskell. Custom layout algorithms, key bindings and other extensions may be written by the user in Haskell, in config files. Window layouts are applied dynamically, and different layouts may be used on each workspace. Xinerama is fully supported, allowing windows to be tiled across several physical screens.”
The screen still stays just black, as with 0.3.
Do you suppose that’s an error? It’s supposed to be black – you have to make a window, so try pressing ctrl+shift+enter. Also, it’s good to install dmenu – and to read the extremely short man page.
Assuming that it does in fact load properly, in which case you probably get at least a mouse pointer on screen.
Edited 2007-10-19 22:42
Of course xmond doesn’t care about keyboard input, else I hadn’t mentioned it.
It’s ‘black screen’ as in ‘error, fault, nothing works’, etc…
Perhaps you ought you to report this on the xmonad mailing list instead of here.
A window manager for the Extreme Minimalist!
I want to try this so badly, but I it doesn’t seem to be included as a package on *buntu or FreeBSD (ports)….
Yeah, I didn’t find a package for Ubuntu, but it’s easy to install with instruction from the page. There’s just one trick to it: to add xmonad to Gdm options (the login screen), you’ll want to make the file
/usr/share/xsessions/xmonad.desktop .
Mine looks like:
That bit isn’t in the instructions. And oh, I meant alt-shift-enter in the previous post.
Just grab it from the darcs repository.
I use this on FreeBSD on my laptop every day and it’s great. Very easy to customize, lots of screen space… Pretty much everything you’d ever want. And using it on a laptop is especially handy since mousing is much more work.
I use ratpoison at work, so this appeals to me. I’ll give it a try.
I (and probably its not only me) spend too much time finding, unminimizing (uniconizing or whatever), moving, rearranging windows. These unorthodox keyboard-controled window managers can help solve this issue – they place the windows perfectly and you don’t need to hunt windows with your mouse. And the best thing is that you have plenty of choice! You have wmii, ratpoison, xmonad and Ion. I think that computers must improve life by both making things easier and aiding you to think differently. Traditional WM’s do not do that – they just emulate the real world desk: http://toastytech.com/guis/desk.html
But what has happened with that button behind “Cancel” and “Resize” on that screenshot below?
http://xmonad.org/images/screen-droundy-mosaic.png
that’s due to the GIMP not knowing how to redraw its windows properly below certain dimensions. xmonad’s probably not suitable for image editing anyway.
the orthogonal design of unix has its ups and downs, and this is one of the downsides. interesting design philosophy, though.
Ah, kids these days! In my day we used w9wm.
http://www.grassouille.org/code/w9wm.en.html
Two pixel border, little configuration, no thinking 🙂
First off is Haskell. You have to have haskell to bootstrap haskell. The source build documentation must be hiding instructions. Then other haskell based system updates.
Too much to have to change in order try it out.
Edited 2007-10-23 22:55