xmonad demo : take 2

[henrym23]

The song is in the statistics (click the graph icon next to the viewcount) -- 'Shagrugge - Metrosphere (sleepy pod vibe)' -- the 'About this song' link takes you to the author's site where you can download it.

[GordonFreemanK]

I want that in my Visual Studio!

yvranx > the whole point is that you really don't have to do anything but start the window manager

[yvranx]

@GordonFreemanK What? It does all my work for me? Does my boss know?

Or is it telepathic and knows how I would like to have my windows sorted?

[yvranx]

Wow, that was useless.

Here is a hint: Unless we know what you have to do to switch/resize/whatever, we have to assume that it is very, very complicated.

[staufinc]

@yvranx he's doing it with the keyboard. and if you see how fast he's doing it, you would assume it isn't very many keystrokes.

[yvranx]

@staufinc Ok, but how many different key chords I have to learn? How many Meta-Super-Extra-Ultra keys I have to press each time? A screencast just doesn't cut it.

[staufinc]

@yvranx I'm not sure. I use ratpoison and it isn't very difficult. The keybindings are pretty simple by default, and you can change any keybinding to execute whatever ratpoison command (or series of ratpoison commands) you would like.

[yvranx]

@staufinc I admit that I don't understand what the deal is about tiling window managers, but that is not my point here: I just say that a screencast, esp. one without any explanation, is a lousy way to explain them.

[tylerawesome]

VIM FOREVER

[rohan3au]

What is the music? That's an awesome song...

[dankbot420]

whats the name of this song?

[NichtPobedieren]

really, what is the name of background music? people've been asking this question for 2 years already and what, nobody, including uploader, knows?

[Lymphaticnessicity]

First time I ever watched a tech video and DIDN'T dive for the mute button.

[AndorJor]

I prefer AwesomeWM, but xmonad seems nice.

[a8ksh4]

It's for corporate type compute environments, too. The command line facilitates administration of thousands of machines. By comparison, our windows couterparts are crippled by their ball and chain tether to the gui and the cobbled together VB scripts they have to use for administration of their systems...

[Kaidelong]

Are you unable to find a binary package for it? I do find it quite annoying that some versions of GHC tends to break the OpenGL and wxwidgets bindings, but I imagine setting up Cabal and GHC wouldn't be a problem if you could just use a binary.

[karlztt]

I prefer ratpoison

[gravisan]

I use this with Gnome, it's fantastic

[tukozaki]

Xnomad looks neat! Would be handy on my old laptop with SliTaz or Arch Linux :))

Only just heard about it from Rian Hunter (Dropbox team).

I like all i see on this screen video, but the file manager?

I'll try.

[socotril]

Es burrazo para escribir !!!

[Evi1M4chine]

youre just too dumb for it arent you? and you modded them all down, didnt you?

[speedaddict2008]

How comes the majority of the comments here are thumbed down.

[jigglesnap]

Did you hear that Ballmer?

BRING BACK MS-DOS

[jigglesnap]

Why are you typing everything into a command line? You people have absolutely no idea how normal people use computers, do you? No wonder no one uses Linux.

[cumulus0007]

stfu! command line rocks, it's powerful and fast. Go ahead and click yourself lame in Windows!

[jigglesnap]

The command line is for dinosaurs and script kiddies who think they're in The Matrix.

[cumulus0007]

You absolutely don't know where you are talking about, don't you?

[samsonites101]

The gui is for those who aren't able to use the command line and need something simple and slow. command line is fast and powerful. There is a lot that can be done in bash that would be very hard to do anywhere else. You obviously have never used a command line before.

[svenhakonsson]

Yes. Hooray for bash!

The only worthy GUI is available with Xmonad!

[svenhakonsson]

Yes, this is true. But MS-DOS is already back!

Google Free-DOS.

[samsonites101]

It's sad that kids these days will never learn how to use a command line. It's a very powerful tool when put into the correct hands.

[jigglesnap]

It's sad that the open source community refuses to acknowledge any of the user interface improvements that have been made since the 1960s. :'(

Oh well. Microsoft Windows has a bright future.

[samsonites101]

There are plenty of wonderful open source desktop environments for linux. And it's fully customizable. As of now, Windows is going downhill with Vista. Vista absolutely is terrible, and if Windows 7 sucks too... who knows what will happen. Windows always just gets worse (except for XP). Longhorn was nice, but the official release of Vista sucked. 98 was ok, but ME was terrible. DOS is seriously the best OS thing they've made. Maybe XP though.

[alazarCZ]

It doesn't, no-one forces you to stop using Gnome or KDE :) Thing is, if you need to work efficiently, all the eye-candy and colored menus and buttons just slow you down.

[tbsdy]

Since when? Guess you've never used KDE.

[jigglesnap]

KDE sucks. KDE is for nerds who <3 Windows but don't want to admit it. Come out of the closet.

[tbsdy]

See, I knew you'd come around. As you say, KDE has implemented modern UI developments on Linux systems.

[hardToSignUpHere]

kewl, did you make it yourself?

[anukefromrussia]

aewsoem!

[proberush]

Sexy.

[HansWurst003]

what is the music? :)

[shinuza]

Rha, quality is not so good. Awesome video, awesome music, awesome WM.