My newest project. A Nanopi M6.

Rockchip rk3588, 8 cores, 32G, 256g Emmc, 4T drive, wifi, Bt, small 600x480 touchscreen.

Should be very zippy. My daily driver is an Orange pi M5 plus with the same specs and it is very fast. I don't hesitate to compile huge things. I recently compiled Emacs 30.1 with all the bells and whistles, it took 6 minutes. Less time than it took to make tea.

My project is to pair it with a battery and a 16" touch screen to make a tablet for reading music and bande dessinée. I'm sure I'll do more than that...
It'll be running #Armbian, #Emacs and #Xmonad or Exwm, haven't decided.
Using gestures for controls when in tablet mode.

New desktop who dis?

#nixos #xmonad #pokemon #mutherheckinblastoise

@itsfoss Oh, how I miss my #xmonad. And, to be honest, my #gentoo. But somehow, somewhen I stopped tweaking my system. .... might have been due to my disappointment over systemd (which ofc never was a thing in gentoo). But this made me lazy.

I remember ages ago my brother-in-lawbtried to talk me into SUSE. I told him: "If I wanted a control panel [yast], I'd use windows."

And then came systemd. This took a lot of my enthusiasm and drained my interest in tinkering.

Time to start all over again. Get rid of kali, install gentoo and - alas! - xmonad.

Thanks for the inspiration.

For the last few days, I've been annoyed by Dropbox notifications about AppIndicator support. I'm used to #xmobar, and it works fine for me, so I didn't want to switch to a new info bar and found an elegant solution: using snixembed, which works like a proxy. Just compile it, run it, and everything works like a charm. Kudos to snixembed, I so love solutions like this that allow me to keep using things I'm comfortable with.

#xmonad

@cassey You could always install a #TilingWindowManager on top of #MacOS that works fine.
I had the same issue on MacOs.

I was using #amethyst for a while but it honestly sucked compared to my gold-standard: XMonad.

I’ve seen a few more MacOS TWM’s pop up lately which you should check out: #Yabai and #Aerospace are both ones I haven’t tried.

In the Linux world, #XMonad is my happy place. I long to run it on MacOS but without X11, it’ll probably be called WayMonad or MacMonad.

@takeonrules
Xmonad deserves a go. I can't use i3 because it is
so Limited. It is perhaps easier, but I don't know. I didn't know Haskell but I did it anyway. I've been on #Xmonad for more than a decade and I have yet to see anything better.
i3 is a backup I use while setting up my xmonad that I can't wait to get out of. Xmonad is like the emacs of window managers. Of course there is Exwm. But that might take you a minute or two.

@hn50

I love this! I was thinking about doing something like this because I want this functionality which is very #Xmonad like. And something I yearn for.

Do you have any experience with or opinion about the #Hyperland compositor? I would like to hear about it, as it sounds awesome on paper and looks great on screenshots. I'm planning to change to a tiling window manager and wonder how it compares to other alternatives. I have tried #Qtile before and liked it. I was also interested in #xmonad, because it can be configured with #Haskell, but I'll rather focus on #Wayland options and I think there are no ports in the horizon.

Anybody have Wayland-compatibile tiling compositor (WM) recommenddations? I'd been using #xmonad for years, but it doesn't work with Wayland. #KDE #Plasma with #bismuth was good for me, but Bismuth doesn't work with latest Plasma. I've really not found anything good with Gnome, and the options like #sway and #hyprland require a bunch of time to configure and don't do things like remembering what to do when I plug in different external monitors like KDE does. I appreciate KDE's automation.

@Riedler This is timely. I'd been using #xmonad for years, but it doesn't work well with Wayland. #KDE #Plasma with #bismuth was good for me, but Bismuth doesn't work with the latest KDE. I've really not found anything good with Gnome, and the options like #sway and #hyprland require a bunch of time to configure and don't do things like remembering what to do when I plug in different external monitors like KDE does.

"Lock my screen? Hoho, oh no I don't do that. I just use Xmonad with custom keybindings and when I walk away, I switch to an empty workspace."

#xmonad #linux

I just switched to #xmonad on #openbsd, it's very good so far.

Nachdem ich auf meinem Laptop schon etwas länger #fedora laufen hab, bin ich jetzt auch auf meinem Desktop gewechselt. Auch die DE hab ich gewechselt. Von #gnome zu #KDE. Auch wenn ich noch meinem alten #xmonad hinterher trauer, aber kann halt kein #wayland.

Ich hatte dort vorher ein #manjaro laufen und war im Gegensatz zu einem "echtem" #Arch immer etwas unzufrieden. Jetzt sind die einzigen Maschinen, die noch Arch basiert sind mein Server und mein #Steamdeck 😅

Aber das bleibt auch erstmal so

Confessions of a Tilerholic: The Slippery Slope to Xmonad and DWM

https://eggflix.foolbazar.eu/videos/watch/b68ceb2b-1317-4006-b936-51009a14ca5e

Interesting to me: None of the AI (deepseek, khoj or chatgpt) could produce a configuration of xmonad.hs which compiled without errors. My intention was to test them only.
Guess we have to wait a bit longer to be replaced.

#xmonad

How long would you fight with #i3wm before you go back to #xmonad?

On the one hand, I want a clear upgrade-path to Wayland and solid Desktop-Integration via #regolithdesktop, but I also want to have proper layouts as XMonad has them.

I do have a config for XMonad, so fear of Haskell is not the issue.

Do I need to extend regolith to also support XMonad? At least locally, because upstreaming would be a herculean task...

Current Progress on Wayland Haskell bindings

https://infosec.pub/post/23455034

@hmnews Nice. I might finally be able to replace the godawful #Amethyst which I had to install using some kind of Ruby bullshit hack on my #nixdarwin config. If it’s anything like #XMonad, I’m happy.

https://github.com/harryprayiv/nix-darwin-config/blob/main/system/machine/macbook/default.nix#L117

lol #android studio phone emulator vs #xmonad

Last change on the software side of my dev setup was to start using #PaperWM. It’s so awesome! It’s fast, smooth, has exactly what I need from a window manager, and it’s rock solid. In the past I’ve been using #awesomewm, #xmonad, #i3wm and while I liked them all better than classic floating WMs, only PaperWM feels exactly like what I always needed. And, on a 120hz display its quick animations look fantastic.