The Design and Implementation of XMonad

http://xmonad.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/the-design-and-implementation-of-xmonad/

by fogus • 17 years ago

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windsurfer• 17 years ago

I can't believe metacity is 50,000 lines of C code. I always thought it was so bland and minimalistic.

gchpaco• 17 years ago

It doesn't do a whole lot for that, but C can be quite verbose and the standard Xlib bindings don't help at all.

dylanz• 17 years ago

Great slides, and having tried nearly all of them, this is my favorite Window Manager.

cliffdickerson• 17 years ago

My favorite tilling WM http://wmii.suckless.org/ You can configure it with any scripting language but the downside is the help is lacking compared to the IRC community for XMonad and awesome.

uninverted• 17 years ago

I use a really similar wm called Awesome (written in C and Lua), but I might switch once I grok haskell more.

nixme• 17 years ago

Another fellow awesome user on HN :)

I used xmonad for a while actually before switching to awesome. I found the latter easier to configure and better out of the box (especially with multiple displays), plus I wanted to learn Lua over Haskell at the time. I found my productivity increased dramatically using either.

The Design and Implementation of XMonad

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