Xmonad – A dynamically tiling X11 window manager

Re:Xmonad – A dynamically tiling X11 window manager by platz on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @11:48AM (#9334875)

I love i3 and have gotten quite used to it. Although now that I do have haskell experience, I kind of wish I'd ramped up on XMonad. Of course, I'd try to configure it to behave just like i3 (especially with regard to the hierarchical containers, pretty sure XMonad doesn't do that OOTB), so now I'm not sure if I should switch ;)

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Re:Xmonad – A dynamically tiling X11 window manager by fernandotakai on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @12:24PM (#9335121)

i tried using i3, but the behaviour when it comes to spaces made me mad (create on use instead of create a bunch of them).

right now awesomewm does everything i need and config being in lua helps a ton with readability and flexibility.

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Re:Xmonad – A dynamically tiling X11 window manager by na85 on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @01:16PM (#9335537)

High five. I found awesome wm to be significantly superior to i3 OOTB, and with a little setup it really lives up to the name "awesome".

Super+e to open emacs, and then having emacs automatically sent/assigned to the tag/workspace titled "emacs"? Love it.

But my fav is having the "Menu" key bound to "open urxvt". Super convenient.

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Re:Xmonad – A dynamically tiling X11 window manager by baldfat on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @03:51PM (#9336676)

I had the opposite. I switched from Awesome to i3 about three years ago.

I can do all of that in i3 with a simple text editor.

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