xmonad on ubuntu
Tom Dryer has written a great introduction to using xmonad on ubuntu.
What good is having a large display if you’re constantly rearranging windows to fit them on the screen? I got tired of try to fit a web browser with other smaller windows and decided to try xmonad, a tiling window manager that could do this for me.
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Visualising xmonad
Here’s the xmonad contrib library visualised with cabalgraph. Thanks for all the contributions!
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Xmonad and the Gimp
http://nathanhowell.net/ has a nice post describing a new xmonad layout for the gimp.
Read the full story.
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xmonad on eee
Matt Gruskin put together some screenshots of xmonad on the eee 1000,
Note the use of a tabbed layout, and the prompt extension.
See the full set of shots here
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Miles Sabin wrote an interesting post on the xmonad mailing list about a layout that would have xmonad work as a sliding block puzzle. Intriguing!
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Using gimp under xmonad
Sometimes people wonder how a very window-heavy/interactive app like gimp will work under a tiling window manager. The answer is: just fine.
In xmonad, at least, the default rule is to float gimp into the floating layer, with optional tiling as you need it. Here’s a quick demo of using gimp under xmonad, so you get the idea:
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Why tiling? Why xmonad?
A great post on the why you would want to use xmonad from Jesse Andrews: Getting Tiled with XMonad. A choice quote:
XMonad has defeated all other desktop environments
Enjoy!
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