XMonad, You're Simply The Best! DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Davide
Hey Derek,
Thanks for all the content you put out there, it's really appreciated :)
I REALLY like XMonad and I'd be happy to jump on it (especially now that I'm studying Haskell); Though, I see a roadblock; I'm used to Plasma and I like the services it offers; Up to now I've been using Bspwm + Plasma (basically, swapping out Kwin with Bspwm); A few days ago I tried repeating the same setup with XMonad to no avail; It seems Xmonad doesn't play well with Plasma (for some reason I cannot fathom); Xmonad starts but, if I then start Variety, the background it paints behave like a -window- (it takes up space in the desktop, like any other window, instead of acting like... a background as it should). I'm not even getting into the multi-monitor thing (I've 2 external displays) since both the Variety backgrounds that should be supposed to show on the external displays then render as 2 separate windows in the main monitor...
So If you ever have some time to spare and nothing better to do, it would be HUGELY appreciated if you make a video where you try to configure XMonad on top of Plasma (because I know you would succeed at that with no issues) :)
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Hey Derek,
Thanks for all the content you put out there, it's really appreciated :)
I REALLY like XMonad and I'd be happy to jump on it (especially now that I'm studying Haskell); Though, I see a roadblock; I'm used to Plasma and I like the services it offers; Up to now I've been using Bspwm + Plasma (basically, swapping out Kwin with Bspwm); A few days ago I tried repeating the same setup with XMonad to no avail; It seems Xmonad doesn't play well with Plasma (for some reason I cannot fathom); Xmonad starts but, if I then start Variety, the background it paints behave like a -window- (it takes up space in the desktop, like any other window, instead of acting like... a background as it should). I'm not even getting into the multi-monitor thing (I've 2 external displays) since both the Variety backgrounds that should be supposed to show on the external displays then render as 2 separate windows in the main monitor...
So If you ever have some time to spare and nothing better to do, it would be HUGELY appreciated if you make a video where you try to configure XMonad on top of Plasma (because I know you would succeed at that with no issues) :)
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dwwsee
One advice from a newbie ubuntu user .This is my experience. I had a problem setting up my second monitor with xmonad on a laptop. Laptop was 1920x1080 while 2nd monitor was 4k. I had to play arround with xrandr for a day to figure out how to set up my second monitor because nvidia server couldnt manage my PRIME displays. When I changed back to my gnome session everything was messed up and I had to go back to xmonad to fix it. I open xmonad and everything was messed up there too. I tried for another day to fix the problems with my configs .I ended up clean installing ubuntu from the user log in terminal no fancy guis there). Lesson learned .If you are a newbie like me and want to customize your linux do 2 things . Use github and timeshift. Looking forward to trying again on arch when I have time though :)
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One advice from a newbie ubuntu user .This is my experience. I had a problem setting up my second monitor with xmonad on a laptop. Laptop was 1920x1080 while 2nd monitor was 4k. I had to play arround with xrandr for a day to figure out how to set up my second monitor because nvidia server couldnt manage my PRIME displays. When I changed back to my gnome session everything was messed up and I had to go back to xmonad to fix it. I open xmonad and everything was messed up there too. I tried for another day to fix the problems with my configs .I ended up clean installing ubuntu from the user log in terminal no fancy guis there). Lesson learned .If you are a newbie like me and want to customize your linux do 2 things . Use github and timeshift. Looking forward to trying again on arch when I have time though :)
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Parth
Not here to change anyone's mind but i did try xmonad once and kinda liked it, the only problem for me was to learn a new programming language just to configure the damn thing.. So I shifted to dwm that is configures in C which i am comfortable with. Also dwm is very lightweight an i dont need to install Haskell or Cabal. I can even make my own build and push it to github and install the exact same build on any other system without having to worry about other dependencies and placing the config files in the right directory.
All in all, i feel xmoad is a great wm and very extensible but for me dwm is exactly what i needed
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Not here to change anyone's mind but i did try xmonad once and kinda liked it, the only problem for me was to learn a new programming language just to configure the damn thing.. So I shifted to dwm that is configures in C which i am comfortable with. Also dwm is very lightweight an i dont need to install Haskell or Cabal. I can even make my own build and push it to github and install the exact same build on any other system without having to worry about other dependencies and placing the config files in the right directory.
All in all, i feel xmoad is a great wm and very extensible but for me dwm is exactly what i needed
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Rich-rd
I still prefer dwm. With the years grew to be much more of a minimalist... perfect things are closer to minimal than to -beautifully complex in background theory-. I have had been enjoying programming in all kinds of functional languages and such, just I grow to not really use them anymore and just C++ or C everything if there is a chance to do so. Okay... I would maybe change to a dm written in some kind of forth-like language maybe ;-)
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I still prefer dwm. With the years grew to be much more of a minimalist... perfect things are closer to minimal than to -beautifully complex in background theory-. I have had been enjoying programming in all kinds of functional languages and such, just I grow to not really use them anymore and just C++ or C everything if there is a chance to do so. Okay... I would maybe change to a dm written in some kind of forth-like language maybe ;-)
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Michael
Change your mind? I can-t.
However, I really prefer the simplicity of DWM. I-m very familiar with C, and it-s very barebones.
From a user standpoint it isn-t -simpler- but from a coders perspective, it feels simpler to me.
Some done like the built in top bar, but I honestly don-t mind it.
Plus to Xmonad for using a functional language though. I hope to try it again some day.
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Change your mind? I can-t.
However, I really prefer the simplicity of DWM. I-m very familiar with C, and it-s very barebones.
From a user standpoint it isn-t -simpler- but from a coders perspective, it feels simpler to me.
Some done like the built in top bar, but I honestly don-t mind it.
Plus to Xmonad for using a functional language though. I hope to try it again some day.
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Cuissedemouche
I'm using AwesomeWM and I'm always thinking to try XMonad, but I don't know Haskell at all, and so many people are just telling XMonad vs AwesomeWM is just Haskell vs LUA since you can do exactly the same in both and not seeing performances differences.
What do you think about that? Is is true in the main lines?
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I'm using AwesomeWM and I'm always thinking to try XMonad, but I don't know Haskell at all, and so many people are just telling XMonad vs AwesomeWM is just Haskell vs LUA since you can do exactly the same in both and not seeing performances differences.
What do you think about that? Is is true in the main lines?
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Andrea
Hey DT nice video like always, i have a little problem with Conky. i'm able to load my config but it appair like a normal window and not like a persistent widget on the screen. I'm actually using Qtile and i don't know how to fix this problem. I change the owm_window parameters but nothing change
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Hey DT nice video like always, i have a little problem with Conky. i'm able to load my config but it appair like a normal window and not like a persistent widget on the screen. I'm actually using Qtile and i don't know how to fix this problem. I change the owm_window parameters but nothing change
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itech
For some reason with your dotfiles the meta button does not work with active terminal or emacs window. For example M-S c with active terminal will print C. could be something with my manjaro setup.
P.S. The model pc104 (in the setxkbdmap) was the problem, change to pc105 is the fix.
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For some reason with your dotfiles the meta button does not work with active terminal or emacs window. For example M-S c with active terminal will print C. could be something with my manjaro setup.
P.S. The model pc104 (in the setxkbdmap) was the problem, change to pc105 is the fix.
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OmkaraD
Hello Derek, I love xmonad as much as you do, it is my favorite WM. Recently i stumbled upon taffybar. It is a haskel package and intended to run with xmonad in replacement to xmobar. I think you should check it out becouse it left me some really good impresions :) enjoy! :)
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Hello Derek, I love xmonad as much as you do, it is my favorite WM. Recently i stumbled upon taffybar. It is a haskel package and intended to run with xmonad in replacement to xmobar. I think you should check it out becouse it left me some really good impresions :) enjoy! :)
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Rainer
Hey Derek, what is your way to install your Xmonad-Desktop ???
... is it like install as a package under an other WM, or do you install it on an clean base Arch-Installation >>> can you please tell me how you do this ??? Many thanxxx in advance.
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Hey Derek, what is your way to install your Xmonad-Desktop ???
... is it like install as a package under an other WM, or do you install it on an clean base Arch-Installation >>> can you please tell me how you do this ??? Many thanxxx in advance.
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