#XMonad: The Last Honest Window Manager (2008 Edition)

https://piped.video/watch?v=PilhJFxWgMQ&t=35

Said goodbye to #XMonad today on my development machine. It's been a good run, but #Wayland is coming to replace #XServer and it doesn't look like XMonad is coming to the other side.

So far feeling fairly okay with #Niri, though of course the beginning is always stumbly and I've yet to drive it in an actual workflow. And many of the keybinding defaults are some flavour of disaster in my locale, but that's a given with a lot of tech. Little bit at a time, this will become more usable. Especially after I also finally ditch the big tech OS on my daily driver later this week. This whole smaller migration was a preliminary task for that.

A new version of my setup. Isn't in GitHub for now.

#linux #nixos #distro #unix #xmonad #haskell #lisp #emacs #wm #tiling #functional #opensource #terminal #programming #code #software #elisp #x11

I have a tiling window manager with only 52 lines of code to be (in my view) perfect, efficient and stable.

#XMonad

The computer is a tool to assist you on your workflow.

Whatever you have, you ironed out to work smoothly.

To change to the newest (some still with unresolved issues) does not make sense.

A stable and efficient workflow is the first priority, at least, for me.

#Xorg
#XMonad

xmonad-de #release A simple "desktop environment" made with #xmonad and polybar https://codeberg.org/dinofp/xmonad-de #linux #debian #linux_ mint #haskell

Currently working on getting #Xmonad to play nice on #LinuxMint. I have been able to do this very successfully on Ubuntu but so far having some trouble on Mint. The goal is Xmonad plus other tools (polybar, dunst, blueman, etc...) as the only DE. Very lean.
#Linux

This year is the year where I am using 18 years #xmonad as window manager on computers.

#Wayland is there and probably xmonad will be unusable at some point in the future. But until now it was the most stable, fast and usable window manager I have used. It never crashed in all those years and I have changed the configuration only once because something has changed in an extension I used.

Thank you for the past.years.

@lhp @tfb
I've used #Xmonad for years. I used named scratchpads for all things transient.
They actually live on another desktop that is usually hidden. They can be anything, a terminal, htop, a repl, conky, rofi, whatever.
They can be invoked and dismissed with a keystroke and they float above the tiles.

I have yet to find a tiling window manager that is as capable as xmonad. I keep trying to like i3. But it just doesn't measure up.

@Erdrandbewohner Die korrekte Distri ist übrigens #gentoo mit #xmonad als WM. Nur, falls sich jemand fragen sollte... ^^

Edit typo

One use of AI: painting console stuff I'd be otherwise too lazy to write. It still makes a mess with whitespace, but cuts down overall time spent considerably #xmonad

My workflow on my Thinkpad P16s:

Archlinux / XMonad / Alacritty

Emacs (denote), Zotero

yandex-browser

yandex-disk (backup).

#archlinux
#xmonad
#yandex

@BujakiewiczFranco I have to ask about what #xmonad alternatives are you considering (assuming you will switch to #wayland).

I renewed my setup. From Alacritty and Neofetch to Wezterm + Fastfetch + Kitty image protocol. More functional than ever, I will switch from Nvim to Emacs in the future.

#linux #lisp #haskell #emacs #terminal #functional #code #nvim #vim #nixos #xmonad #wm #programming

Any #XMonad folks know why I see a border flash around windows when they lose focus, in spite of noBorders? It happens when switching tabs or changing workspaces... and it's normalBorderColor if that helps. I'm new to XMonad and loving it and this has stumped me this morning.

Window Managers

Window managers on macOS (and Windows) are auxiliary programs that try to complement the system’s own handling of windows, and are not as powerful as X11 window managers. However, (...)

#gnome #i3 #keyboard #manager #mouse #tiling #window #xmonad

https://taoofmac.com/space/apps/window_managers

As this bug in @wireshark 's I/O Graph's color picker annoyed me once again, can't use it on the #XMonad tiling window manager, I started a bit of testing with different window managers and opened a ticket for it now: https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20865

@ngate
I was on XMonad for years. Excellent Tiling WM.

Trying Niri on Wayland.

#XMonad
#niri

🎩🤓 Oh, the thrill of a keyboard warrior's epic quest from #i3wm to #Gnome and then a valiant return to XMonad! 🖥️⚔️ Because mastering endless dotfiles and tiling WMs is the true path to enlightenment, or at least a fun way to procrastinate. 😂💻
https://wssite.vercel.app/blog/moving-back-to-a-tiling-wm-xmonad #keyboardwarrior #epicquest #XMonad #HackerNews #ngated