Hacking on Xmonad - GridSelect, ToggleStruts, ToggleBorders

I'm just playing with Xmonad and having fun hacking on it. I discuss how to toggle on/off borders and struts in Xmonad for that perfect fullscreen viewing experience. I also show off a neat little tool called gridSelect.
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[@migue7490]

That gridselect feature looks so good. I was looking for something like that but I didn't find this, it's hard sometimes to type the right words to find what you need :D. Good video.

[@mtothem1337]

This is more of an advanced use case. but i have some simple home automation I've made. and i use the GridSelect to interact with those. like turning on / off lights etc. pretty neat.

[@DistroTube]

Sweeeet!

[@m0n4d59]

Great video, would like to see more on Xmobar too.

[@jaredkomoroski]

Love the channel DT.

[@DistroTube]

Thanks, Jared! :D

[@C6438911]

Thank you Derek, awesome video! always a pleasure to see a video made by you. Btw, coincidentally, I see traditional 'window' managers incorporating some sort of tiling functionality . In KWIN (kde/plasma) there is a good tiling script from github. Also for xfce with xfwm you can find a tiling script for the window manager. Maybe, if you want to do it, you could try a traditional window manager with tiling scripts, if you can find them of course. Could be an idea for a video, but it goes a bit against your philosophy of light and no nonsense, fast desktop environments that make sense. But still, interesting in my opinion.

[@KingZero69]

xmonad is the best TWM by far... good choice.

[@myfavouritecolorisgreen]

one xmonad thing i found useful was making the inactive window a little transparent and the window in focus to be 100% opaque imports : import Xmonad.Hooks.FadeInactive code: myLogHook :: X () myLogHook = fadeInactiveLogHook fadeAmount where fadeAmount = 0.9

[@vime322]

There's that inspiration to go dig and hack on my config. Thanks :D

[@DistroTube]

It's contagious!

[@Shvmadogg]

Love that wm

[@user-oj3gb8nh2q]

Thanks, guy.

[@PenguinEye]

I just started to learn Haskell a few days ago, and it's all your fault :)

[@godnyx117]

Hey man! How is it going? I want to learn Haskell too! Can you help me getting started? Haskell is notsso popular so I can't find any goo source...

[@bobblah78]

If you check reddit a lot of the feedback is that Learn you a Haskell isn't great and many recommend Haskell from First Principles instead. However the latter is lengthy. Another highly recommended option is Programming in Haskell.

[@godnyx117]

Please can we get a similar video for Qtile? And in general a big video about showing us how to do very advanced things Qtile?

[@nikolaos9175]

Xmonad is one of the first tiling window managers I tried, and to me, it felt the most responsive and clean... BUT, for a beginner and non-coder, the config file felt like a true nightmare. I probably will give it another go sometime. I am an i3-gaps user for a long time.

[@peacemekka]

Lol same. I installed it a few days back just because of DT and just changed almost nothing in it. Just because i thought I'll write my config from scratch but man I got lost looking at all the haskell in there. Hell there isnt even a stock config that i could copy over and work on. They should've atleast provided the stock config(if it is already there then atleast its location) to copy over for configuration. I still have it installed in case someday I feel like using it. I also am an i3-gaps user and I love my setup there.

[@andrewpalm2103]

Hmmm. My apps laid out on a grid.... Can you say Guh-nome? ;-> Seriously, a nice feature, but I think I'll stick with my rofi menu when tiling it up with Herbstsuft. On the other hand, who am I kidding? With my "Grandpa Coder" use case, just about any DE or tiling WM would serve well. HL is still my favorite, but I've been revisiting xfce4 and my "workflow" isn't all that different, especially since I use the same hotkeys. Cheers to all.

[@Berntisso]

I actually like how Xmonad handles fullscreen by default, and I'm looking for a way to get the same in Qtile. Can someone help?

[@nikolaos9175]

@DistroTube check out this program called pywal for theming! might make for a good upcoming video!

[@menkaur]

how do you get vim syntax highlighting in emacs?

[@Flackon]

Is xmonad limited to predefined layouts or can you make your own on the fly like i3?

[@kyllinglove9357]

really helpful video for a linux noob

[@peacemekka]

Gridselect is exactly what Alt+Tab on Windows is. Plus the freedom to have anything on there and not just open programs.

[@chef2654]

I'd love for you to take a look at Morpheus Linux. It's a distro built around the suckless utilities.

[@DistroTube]

Sounds interesting. Might have to check that out!

[@afraidtoshootstrangers1]

Is gridselect xmonad only feature?

[@aa-wv9oy]

Does the theme youre using have a name?

[@DistroTube]

If you are asking about the color scheme in the terminal and in emacs...it's called Dracula.

[@leviticus8930]

Been wanting to try Xmonad. But Qtile is hard to beat.

[@DistroTube]

Qtile is sexy. It acts very much like xmonad so it's quite easy for me to switch between the two.

[@leviticus8930]

@@DistroTube It is a shame Qtile doesn't get the attention like Xmonad, Awesome and i3 gets. The developers have produced an excellent product. Yes I am a Qtile fanboy...

[@DistroTube]

It's slowly gaining attention. I see alot more qtile screenshots on Unixporn these days. :D

[@mtothem1337]

Qtile is neat. but it's very slow compared to other WM's

[@leviticus8930]

@@mtothem1337 I don't have any issues on my end. Playing on a old single core AMD Sempron with only 3 gb ram, it is as fast on Qtile as Awesome or i3.

[@esaleirivaara7315]

Add this and that, these 3000 libraries and those 400 modules and your tiling window manager turns into tiling Windows manager. :P

[@AnzanHoshinRoshi]

Thank you, Derek. But hacking WMs or DEs is bloat and a timesink. (Still fun though.)

[@xthebumpx]

This is why I'm using Gnome now. I spent all my time tweaking my WM when I used Xmonad/i3/DWM. For me the change has meant much more actual work getting done.

[@esra_erimez]

*Read more*

[@_yuri]

documentation ethics 101