OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/18794/xmonad_0_4_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 22 May 2013 20:08:17 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com ningo http://www.osnews.com/thread?279336 http://www.osnews.com/thread?279336 The screen still stays just black, as with 0.3. Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ningo) Comments WOW! http://www.osnews.com/thread?279380 http://www.osnews.com/thread?279380 A window manager for the Extreme Minimalist! Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (whittmadden) Comments RE: ningo http://www.osnews.com/thread?279385 http://www.osnews.com/thread?279385 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 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jpsalova) Comments cool ... but :( http://www.osnews.com/thread?279403 http://www.osnews.com/thread?279403 I want to try this so badly, but I it doesn't seem to be included as a package on *buntu or FreeBSD (ports).... Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (estrabd) Comments RE: cool ... but :( http://www.osnews.com/thread?279405 http://www.osnews.com/thread?279405 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:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=xmonad
Comment=Xmonad
Exec=/home/jpsalova/bin/xmonad
Type=Application

That bit isn't in the instructions. And oh, I meant alt-shift-enter in the previous post. Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jpsalova) Comments Ratpoison http://www.osnews.com/thread?279421 http://www.osnews.com/thread?279421 I use ratpoison at work, so this appeals to me. I'll give it a try. ;) Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fignew) Comments RE[2]: ningo http://www.osnews.com/thread?279424 http://www.osnews.com/thread?279424 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... Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ningo) Comments RE[3]: ningo http://www.osnews.com/thread?279434 http://www.osnews.com/thread?279434 Perhaps you ought you to report this on the xmonad mailing list instead of here. Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zizban) Comments Good Idea http://www.osnews.com/thread?279468 http://www.osnews.com/thread?279468 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 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dimitar) Comments RE: Good Idea http://www.osnews.com/thread?279475 http://www.osnews.com/thread?279475 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. Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (thebackwash) Comments RE[2]: Good Idea http://www.osnews.com/thread?279478 http://www.osnews.com/thread?279478 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 :-) Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zizban) Comments RE: cool ... but :( http://www.osnews.com/thread?279842 http://www.osnews.com/thread?279842 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. Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bm3719) Comments Too many dependencies to build http://www.osnews.com/thread?280214 http://www.osnews.com/thread?280214 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 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (libray) Comments