xmonad

How great is xmonad if I still want my "old" graphical IDE?

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? ...

xmonad and emacs : problem with 'mod' key

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...

Unable to have full-screen in Mac's Xmonad

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...

Unable to start XMonad in Mac

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...

Create more than one eshell instance in emacs

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. ...

Xmonad configuration file issue

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...

xmonad could not find module `XMonad': broken package

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 ...