I've heard excellent reports of xmonad, but how good is it for everyday use and for development? For various reasons I don't use vim/emacs (though I don't suffer from terminal-phobia!). All the screenshots/videos I've seen show xmonad being used with mainly terminal apps. Is it worth switching from KDE 4.2?
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I started using xmonad as my window manager a couple of weeks ago. I love it. Its great. But since then I have had to use 'ESC' key a lot when I am in emacs and want to press the 'ALT' key. This is because 'ALT' key is used by xmonad as the 'mod' key.
Is there a way to assign the emacs mod key to anything other than the 'ALT' key like a...
I installed the newest X11.
I run the following command unsuccessfully after sourcing ~/.profile
$exec /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc
I get a message
Screen is terminating
and I do not see any evidence of XMonad.
I run the command the second time, and I get
zsh: permission denied: /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc
Process completed...
I have completed every step in XMonad's tutorial for Mac.
However, I cannot start it.
My shell did not run my .profile initially properly. My PATH works now correctly.
I run the following command unsuccessfully
startx
and I get
font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches
font_cache: Updating FC cache
xauth...
Think: tiling my emacs window with eshells, a la xmonad. Is this possible? I can M-x eshell to open the first eshell instance but future invocations just focus the first instance.
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Hi, I am using Xmonad since long time now and it works well, execept I can not modify the configuration file xmonad.hs because there are some strange errors even with the basic configuration;
my actual file is :
import XMonad
main = xmonad $ defaultConfig
{borderWidth =1
, terminal = "urxvt"
, normalBorderColor = "#cccccc...
Hi my Xmonad has been working perfectly until few days ago, then I think I installed something with Synaptic and then started to complain about Xmonad.Config.Gnome
here it is my xmonad.hs
import XMonad
import XMonad.Config.Gnome
myManageHook = composeAll [
(className =? "Pidgin" <&&> title =? "Buddy List") --> doFloat
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