Okay, as some people who know me from the Arch community might know, I'm always trying different things on my computers. This is my first post for my blog, so please keep in mind I'm new to blogging!
This article/blog post I'm attempting to put together today is about XMonad. XMonad is a tiler window manager written and configured completely in haskell! XMonad is written in ~1000 lines of haskell, so it is very minimal however powerful! xmonad-contrib is packed with modules that you might decide to use.
For some time now, I've been using XMonad as my desired wm (window manager) for quite some time. Before I was using XMonad as my only wm, I was always confused with the syntax of haskell. ( Hassel of a language to get used to. ) Once you first start XMonad ( w\o configs ) you will see a blank X11 screen, Don't worry; just hit the keys M-S-<Return> ;) Okay, don't panic if you don't understand what that meant here I will make you a tiny table. :) Instead of going through every keybinding in a large table, I thought it would be far nicer to just give you the XMonad vanila ( default ) cheat-sheet!
In my experience with XMonad the only issue I've had is just the layout crashing, seems to be something in my configs.
Here is a screenshot of my desktop.
My configs have been uploaded to github, in my "dotfiles" repository.
Note: For my XMonad configs, I can't take much credit for as I just took Vodik/Simon gmzlj's configs and applyed custom tweaks and personal improvements.