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Gnome 2 + Xmonad was a pretty good combination for me, but I haven't used it in a while since I have a Mac at home and need to run Netbeans at work. (The Xinera

• dman 13y ago
  XMonad seemed very promising, I was just afraid I would go yak shaving and learn haskell so that I could configure XMonad , hence just settled for dwm.
  • fusiongyro 13y ago
    You could. But my Xmonad config looks like this: import XMonad import XMonad.Config.Gnome main = xmonad gnomeConfig { modMask = mod4Mask } So you can do it without learning a bunch of Haskell. If you plan on configuring it to all hell then it would be difficult without learning a little Haskell syntax, but you certainly shouldn't need to learn Haskell proper.
• e12e 13y ago
  What's wrong with xmonad's handling of xinerama? I seem to recall both awsome[a] and scrotwm[s] have decent handling of mulitscreens setups for drivers that doesn't support xrandr, or used twinview -- maybe I mis-remember what used to be my problem -- but these days xmonad works nicely for me, whenever I need more than one screen. [a] http://awesome.naquadah.org/ http://awesome.naquadah.org/ [s] http://www.peereboom.us/scrotwm/html/scrotwm.html http://www.peereboom.us/scrotwm/html/scrotwm.html
  • fusiongyro 13y ago
    It "works" fine, it's just completely unintuitive and user-hostile. Tried it for a week or two, even with the cheat sheet taped to my monitor I could not build an intuition for what it was going to do. I'm sure there's a reasonable-sounding explanation of how it worked (each monitor is a view of the stack-set, or some such thing) but trying to use it was intensely irritating and it never got better.