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I'm switching over to a much more minimal XMonad setup now, but that's a different story and a much larger shift. I switched from using Gnome on Debian (work
by sasvari 14y ago
I'm switching over to a much more minimal XMonad setup now,
but that's a different story and a much larger shift.
I switched from using Gnome on Debian (work) to XMonad approximately one year ago (I am running Arch with XMonad on my MacBookPro at home and been very happy with this setup), and I didn't find the shift that large: the basic configuration pretty much works out of the box without the need for customization - at least at the beginning. And if you are eager to customize, there is a lot of information on how to set up xmobar, trayer and some Haskell XMonad stuff out there.
- alborland 14y agoSo are you using XMonad without a DE? How is the experience? BTW, how do you manage wireless networks and stuff?
- technomancy 14y agoI use fbpanel to make nm-applet work in my xmonad setup; it's very simple and config-file driven rather than hiding config in crazy XML gconf files like gnome-panel did.
- alborland 14y agoThanks! I am about to make the switch to XMonad without a DE and so I was making a list of things that I would be doing without a DE and wondering how the experience would be.
- technomancy 14y agoYou might find this interesting: https://github.com/technomancy/dotfiles/blob/master/.xsession https://github.com/technomancy/dotfiles/blob/master/.xsessio...
- sasvari 14y agoSo are you using XMonad without a DE? How is the experience? Yes, exactly. It's very lightweight and fast without all the clutter of a DE. I don't really miss anything. BTW, how do you manage wireless networks and stuff? I manage wireless/wired networks with netcfg in the background (without an applet for the trayer, haven't had any need for that yet; but that's up to individual preferences).