The xmonad TWM on Arch Linux

[@sharperguy]

Xmonad works amazingly for dual monitor because each screen can be switch back and forth between monitors. I have a laptop with an HDMI monitor attached. I keep my browser mostly on the laptop and my terminals on the big monitor. I can switch between different screens on the monitor while leaving the browser where it is on the laptop. I can also bring the browser over to the monitor really quickly if I need to and the terminals will move to the laptop. If I need to move the laptop somewhere I can unplug it and just see one screen at a time instead of two. No losing windows and rearranging everything.

[@bobsieshow]

thank you very much for updating your heskell file....i really like your minimalist setup....that is exactly the type of thing i am looking for...nothing too flashy so i can get down to coding,networking, and linux (thats me summed up) ....going to take my time with your config and try and get it working with the stuff i use.

[@gauthierostervall4849]

@Mike Scott: I tried i3, although I didn't give it a fair chance. What I missed was the concept of master area, I like being able to jump to the most important window in one shortcut. If you have tried both i3 and XMonad, don't you miss it?

[@nksdp9776]

Have you tried i3 also? Currently I use it, but I've been looking around XMonad for a while... But just don't know anything about Haskell! Too bad for me it's not written in OCaml.

[@sharperguy]

The one thing I really miss from Compiz was the zoom feature. It was so seamless and useful. Why does nothing else have that?

[@mscott3564]

+1 for compton, I also recommend setting a shortcut to toggle it, as compositing always tears for me :f

[@designernasser]

Try compton as a light compositor. It even has vsync support :)

[@Cym13able]

Most of what you say is compatible with any tiling window manager (dwm, spectrwm, monsterwm...) but its still correct =] One point though, why don't you use wicd-curses in addition to wicd-cli instead of wicd-gtk ? It provides a good interface but doesn't need you to grab the mouse.

[@bobsieshow]

i wanted to try out your config but it wasnt available on git

[@mscott3564]

Nice video. I tried xmonad and dwm, but settled with i3. I like the manual tiling process, knowing where my windows will be rather than leaving it to an algorithm.

[@xmonads]

i am looking for an ncurses wifi client like the one with wicd, i am tired of using iwlist iwconfig dhcpcd every time i need to connect. i used wifi-menu in netctl when i was using arch but now i switched to gentoo