Comments on: XMonad: A tiling window manager written in Haskell

By: mat

mat — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:45:54 +0000

@Jeremy Zawodny
It’s pretty simple actually just set the ‘modMask’ property to mod4Mask… here’s the relevant section from my config:

xmonad $ matUrgencyHook $ defaultConfig {
manageHook = …
layoutHook = …
modMask = mod4Mask,
…
}

By: Jeremy Zawodny

Jeremy Zawodny — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:53:37 +0000

I recently switched to xmonad myself (http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/011331.html) and would love to make the Windows key into the meta key for xmonad so that it doesn’t get in the way emacs.

How’d you do that?

Thanks!

By: mat

mat — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:10:47 +0000

@nimred That wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. The main thing is that you need GHC in order to build GHC... so I installed the older GHC from ports and used that to bootstrap the Darcs repo.

By: nimred

nimred — Sun, 31 May 2009 07:29:38 +0000

how did you get GHC 6.11 working on OpenBSD 4.4 ?

By: Julian

Julian — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:03:53 +0000

I’ve heard of xmonad and I tihnk I’ll give it a try. I like Window Maker – it’s fast, simple and effective.

I’m learning Haskell at the moment as well (trying to, anyway), so why not!

By: mat

mat — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:19:23 +0000

It’s the Circle layout which is included in xmonad contrib. There is some helpful info in the docs on how to use it with your xmonad.hs:

http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Layout-Circle.html

By: Luis Cabellos

Luis Cabellos — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:58:28 +0000

How did you get the layout of desk1.png image?

By: mat

mat — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:32:23 +0000

I should note that I’m currently using xmonad 0.8.1 on OpenBSD 4.4 using a GHC snapshot: 6.11.20081122

OpenBSD ports can lag behind a little but building these took very little effort.

By: mat

mat — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:18:58 +0000

Sorry for the broken link to the configuration pages… it’s fixed now.

I suppose each person has to make their own decision about what window manager fits best. Honestly, to me, it’s not ugly. I’ve read a lot of stories where reviewers went back to using old window managers because they didn’t like the tiling aspect of it. I found myself wondering why it took me so many years to discover this type of window manager and after using several of them I like this one the best.

xmonad is also extremely well written, and I have to give credit where credit is due. As a programmer I’m just naturally drawn to good code.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:23:25 +0000

It’s not ugly; it has so few things (window bars and buttons) that it can’t be ugly. Now, three different colors to display a single window’s decorations — that’s ugly.