xmonad demo : take 2

A demo of the xmonad tiling window manager, doing typical tasks.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• xmonad
• linux
• windowmanager
• x11

[shinuza]

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

[karlztt]

I prefer ratpoison

[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]

@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.

[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 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 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.

[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]

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.