Explaining Everything In My XMonad Config DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Mario
This is brilliant. Just over a week ago, I moved from i3 to Qtile, and I love it.
While Xmonad might be a minimal and suckless WM as you say, it's dependencies certainly are not. I pulled pacman to show all the packages, and it lists a good 190 packages on my system.
In comparison, Qtile depends on Python, a language most people will have installed anyway. Python is 30 MB installed, Qtile is 6 MB installed.
That said, I respect your love for Xmonad, and I admit it's an interesting piece of software. I'm sure I will have a look at it at some point.
Just threw this in, as I think these points are worth considering. Keep it up, DT!
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This is brilliant. Just over a week ago, I moved from i3 to Qtile, and I love it.
While Xmonad might be a minimal and suckless WM as you say, it's dependencies certainly are not. I pulled pacman to show all the packages, and it lists a good 190 packages on my system.
In comparison, Qtile depends on Python, a language most people will have installed anyway. Python is 30 MB installed, Qtile is 6 MB installed.
That said, I respect your love for Xmonad, and I admit it's an interesting piece of software. I'm sure I will have a look at it at some point.
Just threw this in, as I think these points are worth considering. Keep it up, DT!
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Adam
man this is awesome! very appreciative for this in depth tutorial on xmonad. I am a noob but I feel like i have all the cool advanced toys now!! The config files are extremely valuable for me. I barley got into vim for about two weeks now straight into emacs. When i started I used arch gui installers..ran into issues here and there until i finally made my arch install from the beginning and am learning everything from the ground up and it-s awesome. So much fun!!! thanks DT!!!
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man this is awesome! very appreciative for this in depth tutorial on xmonad. I am a noob but I feel like i have all the cool advanced toys now!! The config files are extremely valuable for me. I barley got into vim for about two weeks now straight into emacs. When i started I used arch gui installers..ran into issues here and there until i finally made my arch install from the beginning and am learning everything from the ground up and it-s awesome. So much fun!!! thanks DT!!!
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Yehuda
Hey, DT. Love your videos. You're a big reason why I finally was able to make the jump to Linux, and then to AwesomeWM.
I know you're not a huge fan of Ubuntu, but can you do a video on the Regolith DE? I think it provides the middle ground for people to jump into WMs by giving a fleshed out DE experience, while introducing i3 features.
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Hey, DT. Love your videos. You're a big reason why I finally was able to make the jump to Linux, and then to AwesomeWM.
I know you're not a huge fan of Ubuntu, but can you do a video on the Regolith DE? I think it provides the middle ground for people to jump into WMs by giving a fleshed out DE experience, while introducing i3 features.
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Apoorv
The only thing that I miss in XMonad is ability to set default layout for each workspace, like for workspace 2, I always want it to be in monocle layout, its where I open my browser and so on. Other than that I really love XMonad, it is the most customized WM I have right now, thanks to DT and has all the functionality I need from a WM.
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The only thing that I miss in XMonad is ability to set default layout for each workspace, like for workspace 2, I always want it to be in monocle layout, its where I open my browser and so on. Other than that I really love XMonad, it is the most customized WM I have right now, thanks to DT and has all the functionality I need from a WM.
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Earthling-Z3R0
I hope you shaved off your mustache because you wanted to and not because some troll made an inverted Hitler beard joke on your last video :)
Thanks for this video! I am current wm-hopping and still looking for something I can stick with. My current favourite is awesomewm but will give xmonad a shot this week!
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I hope you shaved off your mustache because you wanted to and not because some troll made an inverted Hitler beard joke on your last video :)
Thanks for this video! I am current wm-hopping and still looking for something I can stick with. My current favourite is awesomewm but will give xmonad a shot this week!
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Youtube
Hey DT. Could u please teach me how I can get ur config. i mean I don't know how to use the dotfiles and anything else I have to install before installing them. the only step I understand is installing the dotfiles. nothing else. so could u teach me how to install ur xmonad config
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Hey DT. Could u please teach me how I can get ur config. i mean I don't know how to use the dotfiles and anything else I have to install before installing them. the only step I understand is installing the dotfiles. nothing else. so could u teach me how to install ur xmonad config
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itech
Question. The doom emacs's keybindings do not work properly with your dotfiles and with xmonad. For example -C-x C-s-, after pressing -C-x- the emacs open list of next keystrokes. The list contains -C-s- but pressing it nothing happens. There are no problems with the qtile.
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Question. The doom emacs's keybindings do not work properly with your dotfiles and with xmonad. For example -C-x C-s-, after pressing -C-x- the emacs open list of next keystrokes. The list contains -C-s- but pressing it nothing happens. There are no problems with the qtile.
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themainman
Hey DT, having problems with XMonad.Layout.ShowWName, I mean it works, but with text, if I have glyphs from Nerd font then it shows a rectangle, even if I specify Nerd font in myShowWNameTheme , do you know a solution for that maybe ?
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Hey DT, having problems with XMonad.Layout.ShowWName, I mean it works, but with text, if I have glyphs from Nerd font then it shows a rectangle, even if I specify Nerd font in myShowWNameTheme , do you know a solution for that maybe ?
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Kyle
When I install lxsession and initiate it in the startup hook, it completely overtakes Xmonad. Gives me a bottom panel like windows 95, desktop icons, bunch of garbage like that. Do I have to manually configure all of that stuff out?
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When I install lxsession and initiate it in the startup hook, it completely overtakes Xmonad. Gives me a bottom panel like windows 95, desktop icons, bunch of garbage like that. Do I have to manually configure all of that stuff out?
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Sarish
5:41 toUpper :: Char -> Char meaning it takes a char and returns a char so it only modifies a single character. To upperCase a String aka. a list of characters you must map the toUpper function like this (map toUpper str)
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5:41 toUpper :: Char -> Char meaning it takes a char and returns a char so it only modifies a single character. To upperCase a String aka. a list of characters you must map the toUpper function like this (map toUpper str)
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