Switching to Xmonad - Not Exactly Day One DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Chulito
I am stoked today. I am finally living in LXQt 0.14 ( the latest version ), on Fedora Rawhide ( the upcoming Fedora 30 ) on hardware as my only operating system. This all should be released in November. So that gives Fedora, nine months to tweak it. Htop shows resources about the same as Plasma. Maybe the memory usage is 400 MB less, but once you are in a web-browser, it does not seem to matter.
Today's update was 1666 packages. Among them: systemd 241, kernel 5.0 rc6, x11 1.20.3-4, dnf 4.1, vulkan 1.1.97, mesa 19.0 rc4, Qt 5.11.3, libreoffice 6.2.0.3, network-manager 1.14.4. and everything else you would normally see in an update is the latest version. I am in Falkon web-browser, but Falkon has crashed once already.
What is so fantastic about all this, is that the people dedicated to putting this all together, will someday have it polished, and so in 2020 maybe, this will all be butter-smooth, and mainstream. Meaning, Fedora 30 with LXQt should be a very nice distro-spin in 2020. I am so confidient that most of the upcoming improvements in 2019 will outweigh any regressions. The Year of Desktop Linux could possibly arrive in 2021, and Fedora will have played a major role in that.
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I am stoked today. I am finally living in LXQt 0.14 ( the latest version ), on Fedora Rawhide ( the upcoming Fedora 30 ) on hardware as my only operating system. This all should be released in November. So that gives Fedora, nine months to tweak it. Htop shows resources about the same as Plasma. Maybe the memory usage is 400 MB less, but once you are in a web-browser, it does not seem to matter.
Today's update was 1666 packages. Among them: systemd 241, kernel 5.0 rc6, x11 1.20.3-4, dnf 4.1, vulkan 1.1.97, mesa 19.0 rc4, Qt 5.11.3, libreoffice 6.2.0.3, network-manager 1.14.4. and everything else you would normally see in an update is the latest version. I am in Falkon web-browser, but Falkon has crashed once already.
What is so fantastic about all this, is that the people dedicated to putting this all together, will someday have it polished, and so in 2020 maybe, this will all be butter-smooth, and mainstream. Meaning, Fedora 30 with LXQt should be a very nice distro-spin in 2020. I am so confidient that most of the upcoming improvements in 2019 will outweigh any regressions. The Year of Desktop Linux could possibly arrive in 2021, and Fedora will have played a major role in that.
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Kevin
Thank you for your Xmonad videos!! I think I tried Xmonad many years ago, but didn't get vary far with it. I've been running dwm for years on an old single monitor PC running Gentoo. But I haven't tried making any configuration changes to dwm in years. I'm in the process of setting up a newer dual monitor PC, which is currently running Slackware 15.0 RC3. My dwm configuration worked on it, but had some quirks that needed work. So, it seemed like a good time to try out some other window managers. I got Xmonad 0.17.0 installed this morning, and with the help of your Getting Started with Xmonad video I already have an Xmonad config that feels fairly natural to use. I'm old fashioned. I tend to run most things full screen with no windows decorations, and prefer to not have any panels getting in the way. As time goes by I'll learn enough Haskell basics to dig deeper into my Xmonad config.
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Thank you for your Xmonad videos!! I think I tried Xmonad many years ago, but didn't get vary far with it. I've been running dwm for years on an old single monitor PC running Gentoo. But I haven't tried making any configuration changes to dwm in years. I'm in the process of setting up a newer dual monitor PC, which is currently running Slackware 15.0 RC3. My dwm configuration worked on it, but had some quirks that needed work. So, it seemed like a good time to try out some other window managers. I got Xmonad 0.17.0 installed this morning, and with the help of your Getting Started with Xmonad video I already have an Xmonad config that feels fairly natural to use. I'm old fashioned. I tend to run most things full screen with no windows decorations, and prefer to not have any panels getting in the way. As time goes by I'll learn enough Haskell basics to dig deeper into my Xmonad config.
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Terminalforlife
I had a bash at that one, despite i3-wm being like my baby, but it felt convoluted; difficult for the sake of being difficult.
I don't want to go copy-pasting random code I don't understand in order to get someone's setup. That meant learning Haskell, except it's a functional language, or whatever the term is.
I persevered, but the thing which put me off the most, was the sheer bulk of it! 200MB or something for Haskell alone? Nope. I'm a bit of a minimalist on computers, so that was a huge turn-off.
I wanted to love Xmonad, but i3-wm has my heart. Don't tell my girlfriend...
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I had a bash at that one, despite i3-wm being like my baby, but it felt convoluted; difficult for the sake of being difficult.
I don't want to go copy-pasting random code I don't understand in order to get someone's setup. That meant learning Haskell, except it's a functional language, or whatever the term is.
I persevered, but the thing which put me off the most, was the sheer bulk of it! 200MB or something for Haskell alone? Nope. I'm a bit of a minimalist on computers, so that was a huge turn-off.
I wanted to love Xmonad, but i3-wm has my heart. Don't tell my girlfriend...
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say
lots of people know haskell, just search for them on the twitterdom and you will find many people that will happily teach you haskell, there are tons of books about it.
actually that xmonad.hs file is your actual XMonad, because XMonad is a library that lets you make your own window manager. all of that configuration is haskell code, combinaing all the parts of the library to make your own WM
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lots of people know haskell, just search for them on the twitterdom and you will find many people that will happily teach you haskell, there are tons of books about it.
actually that xmonad.hs file is your actual XMonad, because XMonad is a library that lets you make your own window manager. all of that configuration is haskell code, combinaing all the parts of the library to make your own WM
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Andy
I'm an idiot. I use i3. She's not the prettiest, but she does forgive my sloppy fingers. I've tried xmonad, bspwm, ratpoison, dwm and wmii. But so far, I only liked i3. It may take two-three keystomps to get my new tile where I want it, but it gets there predictably. With the others, I seem to eventually screw my whole setup into a big mess.
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I'm an idiot. I use i3. She's not the prettiest, but she does forgive my sloppy fingers. I've tried xmonad, bspwm, ratpoison, dwm and wmii. But so far, I only liked i3. It may take two-three keystomps to get my new tile where I want it, but it gets there predictably. With the others, I seem to eventually screw my whole setup into a big mess.
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ALulzyApprentice
I doubt you will consider a not used WM. But there is an old one that was my introduction into Linux. Way way way back in the day I got into Linux just to run Enlightenment. Linux was actually new. Red Hat was new or not even existent back then. It was so long ago I forget.
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I doubt you will consider a not used WM. But there is an old one that was my introduction into Linux. Way way way back in the day I got into Linux just to run Enlightenment. Linux was actually new. Red Hat was new or not even existent back then. It was so long ago I forget.
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Hernan
If that takes you months to config the way you like when you sit on a distro without all your changes you will be a little lost. I don't think that's a nice thing. Be efficient with the standard layouts or desktop is more important that set at you glance. IMHO.
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If that takes you months to config the way you like when you sit on a distro without all your changes you will be a little lost. I don't think that's a nice thing. Be efficient with the standard layouts or desktop is more important that set at you glance. IMHO.
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Outkast
i dare say the edge of the screen is the limit when creating layouts... the universe does not stack well.
duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck go get a real name i hate telling people -use duck duck go- and they tell me to stop playing games.
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i dare say the edge of the screen is the limit when creating layouts... the universe does not stack well.
duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck go get a real name i hate telling people -use duck duck go- and they tell me to stop playing games.
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Riseabove
Great video. I really appreciate you going through the technical aspects of these Tiling Window Managers. I am interested in trying a TWM one day just not ready to take one on yet; but, one day yes. Xmonad seems very interesting.
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Great video. I really appreciate you going through the technical aspects of these Tiling Window Managers. I am interested in trying a TWM one day just not ready to take one on yet; but, one day yes. Xmonad seems very interesting.
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migue7490
I have busy days ahead, I'm a little bit scary you are gonna make me move to Xmonad haha. I don't know why Haskell is not a very popular programming language, it has many interesting things, good language. You rocks DT!
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I have busy days ahead, I'm a little bit scary you are gonna make me move to Xmonad haha. I don't know why Haskell is not a very popular programming language, it has many interesting things, good language. You rocks DT!
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