 Watch the channel for any length of time. You'll know that I have tried X monad a couple times I've made a couple videos on it and Those videos are very entertaining if you enjoy watching me fail utterly those They're not good videos. They're they were made when I first started the channel So I believe or not. I have gotten a little bit better at making videos. It doesn't really show but it Go back and watch some of the early ones. You'll know that I was really bad at those I'm not even sure if that was when I had a camera or not. I'm not sure. I can't really remember Be that as it may I've used X monad a few times, but I've never made it past the Process of installing it and using it for like a half an hour and then giving up because I just could not get my head around Haskell, but this time it's gonna be different or at least it was gonna be different. I think it's gonna be different I don't know if it's gonna be different I've switched to X monad I and I'm using it right now And I'm gonna show you a few of the things that I've done and I'm gonna talk about a few of the problems that I've had so I've been using it now for a day and Like I said, I've had some problems and I'll talk about those towards the end But first let's meet let's talk about some of the successes. I've had so let's jump in Okay, so this is X monad now The first thing you'll notice is that I'm using poly bar and I'll talk a little bit more about the bar situation At the end, but I decided when I was going to do this that I was going to create my own Configuration file instead of using someone else's a lot of times when I switch to something new a new window manager I'll take like DT's Configuration and I'll use that or I'll take Luke Smith's configuration. I'll use that and that's how I'll learn This time I decided I was gonna go ahead and go from the default X monad Configuration file and build it up so that it's mine completely and I've done that so none of what I've done so far has been from anybody else. It started Directly from the X monad default config and I've built it up from there so if I actually open that up and I can show you I Added some imports here that I've needed to needed to add in order to do like auto star and A few things that were supposedly meant to help me use X-mo bar, but again, I'll talk like talk about that later I've changed the terminal which I'm still using a Lackardy and I've changed the mod key and then I've added a couple Keybindings one for Rofi and I've changed the Keybinding to close windows and to close queue tile and to restart queue tile I've done all that kind of stuff and I've also gone through and added all of my Down here. Where is it? I've also gone through and Added all of my auto star stuff. So I've auto started nitrogen pycom sxHKD and Polybar in this case Now the sxHKD is interesting because I wanted to have to go because I wanted to Have it so that I didn't have to go through and import a whole bunch of key bindings for my application so like I wanted to be able to keep my key bindings for to-do list and Audacity and Zim and all these things that I use all the time outside of The X-mone at config. I didn't want to have to put them in the X-mone at config so One of the problems I had the first time I use X-mone had was I tried to use X SxHKD and couldn't actually get it done this time. It's worked just fine now. Those are the things that I've done to Customize it so far. That's literally as far as I've gone The rest of my time that I've spent the last day has been messing around with the bar now I wanted to use X-mobile. I watched DT's introductory or tutorial video and he walks through how to set up X-mobile You know first time so I did that and it wouldn't show up and When I say it wouldn't show up I don't mean that the windows were on top of it And I just couldn't see it and switching to a different desktop without something on it would have shown me the bar I'm saying it didn't show up and I was getting an error and I don't know what the error mean I tried to get on reddit and find out and I didn't get much help So I'm not sure exactly what it means. So I've tried multiple things. I've tried now This is the this right here is the way Distortube said to do it here and that wouldn't show up And I can actually probably comment this out now Because I'm using poly bar, but I've also tried to go through and just start X-mo X-mo bar up here in the startup hook that also didn't work When I go through and try to run X-mo bar. So if I kill all poly bar and Then I try to run X-mo bar like this. I get absolutely nothing and I get this error here What that means? I don't know The answer I got on reddit was that it's some kind of arch Linux error So I thought well, you know, I'll install the one that came from the arch Repository and install the one from the AR. I couldn't get the one from the AR to build I'm thinking about downloading it from like GitHub and maybe building it that way But I'm not sure how to go about doing that like because it's written I think it's written Haskell so I'm not sure how to build things from source in Haskell That's something I'd have to learn. So the the bar has been a pain in my ass and Even with so if I see if I can restart Q tile or Restart X-mo and now and then poly bar is not actually going to show up again. We can see if we can It doesn't matter So my bar is gone for the duration of the thing because I can't get to restart but that's okay Even with poly bar, I've been having problems. So like It took me a while to figure out how to get the workspace numbers to show up You have to import a certain Library to get those to show up and I've gotten that done but the way it shows the numbers like I can't show you now because it's disappeared but The way the numbers are show up don't really work all that well with dual monitors So it the what the workspace that is highlighted is always the one workspace. That's active So you have nine workspaces, but it shows you have nine on each monitor, but you really only have nine So the way it highlights things is a little weird. It's something that I'd have to get used to I don't think it's a bug I think it's just the way it does it. So like I said, the bar has been a pain in my bum for the whole Day that I've been using this and that's like gonna be a problem because I would like to use X-mo bar I really would I Prefer X-mo bar to poly bar or I think I think I would prefer X-mo bar to poly bar, but So I haven't been able to use it. I don't actually know I'm Hoping that the X-mo bar oops. I'm hoping that the X-mo bar is similar to something like the the DWM bar in which I could go through and just you know, put in a whole bunch of scripts and stuff now the X-mo bar Configuration file is just a default configuration file. So if I And then I just copied this from the web and I guess it it still won't work. So May there's just something I'm doing right there there was an error that I showed you earlier and It's possible that I have something installed wrong or I'm missing a dependency somewhere There's something there's something funky going on with the bar with X-mo bar And I don't I'm gonna continue to use poly bar for now And I'm gonna have to go through and theme it which I think I'm gonna end up doing on My dream on Sunday, but we'll see I'm gonna continue to go through and use X-mo Ned for a while and see if I can get used to it now There are a few things that I still need to add because I'm gonna need scratch pads I know I know X-mo Ned has scratch pad functionality. So I'm gonna need to go through and enable that and I'm gonna go want to go through and Probably create a cheat sheet for all the key bindings and stuff so that I can have that someplace easy Maybe even bound to a key binding. So that'd be Something and I need to go through and do so far like it's been a day and I've had fun so using a new window manager is very fun even when it's frustrating and I've had fun I'm not sure I've had enough fun to stick with X-mo Ned for any length of time I'm gonna have to figure out the X-mo bar thing because that's gonna bother me forever even though I have a bar You know, so I'm gonna have to figure that out And if I end up having problems with the scratch pad functionality, I can see that drive me back to DWM fat very fast I'm only like two problems away from just scrapping this completely and going back to DWM So I will I'm going to probably create a few more videos over the next few days of my use of X-mo Ned Kind of documenting how it's going as of right now. I Could probably take it or leave it. It's not as Haskell's not as intimidating as I remember it being so when I first did X-mo Ned I was really just getting into Real window managers like I've been using I3 for over a year at that point And I don't want to say I3 is not a real window manager because it is and it's a good window manager. It's very good But it's an easy window manager. So I at that point. I don't even think I At that point, I'm pretty sure I had just installed DWM for the first time And I've only been using it for a couple months and DWM is one of those window managers that is It's harder, right? You have to go through and you actually have to learn things whereas you can just use I3 right, you don't have to really learn stuff So my point what my point is that when I used X-mo Ned for the first time I really hadn't been exposed to a lot of the Ideas behind, you know, yeah, you have to go through and look this stuff up in order to actually, you know Figure out how to use stuff. So I don't think Haskell's as intimidating as I thought it was. I still think it's weird There's like some situations where the comma goes at the beginning of the line I again, I don't understand why that would possibly be I mean, I'm not a programmer like at all But a comma at the beginning of the line just seems really odd to me. Yeah, so There's just some little things about that, but it's not as bad as I thought it was gonna be so like I said I'm gonna use this. I'm gonna hope to use this for a month We'll see if that happens. 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