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Xmonad is quite good, but I generally found its greatest strength to be its greatest weakness: it turns out I didn't actually want to learn Haskell to edit my w
by fixermark 12y ago
Xmonad is quite good, but I generally found its greatest strength to be its greatest weakness: it turns out I didn't actually want to learn Haskell to edit my wm configs. Nor did I really want to compile my wm configs, but that's more a question of the speed of the Haskell compiler than the choice of language.
Lua is not a great scripting language, but its biggest strength is its dog-simplicity. There just aren't a lot of places for bugs to hide in it.
- switch007 12y agoReally, XMonad does not need much configuration to be quite useful when combined with Gnome/XFCE. Also, there are many, many examples you can copy and paste. I've been using it for 5+ years with minor adjustments - I wouldn't say I "know" Haskell. At all. Further, "xmonad --recompile && xmonad --restart" is not that taxing on the rare occasion you change your configuration.