Re: Installing xmonad?
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 05:26, Tony Baldwin <photodharma@gmail.com> wrote:
> Foss User wrote:
>>
>> I have a simple Debian installation with no desktop environment or
>> xserver. I want to try xmonad. Will this be enough to install xmonad?
>>
>> aptitude update
>> aptitude install xserver-xorg xmonad
>>
>> ?
>>
>>
>
> Aptitude should grab any dependencies.
> Try dwm or ion3.
>
> dwm is lighter than xmonad, I think, although to do any configuration, you
> have to completely recompile it. Navigation is about identical to xmonad.
> All you need to get dwm is aptitude install dwm dwm-tools.
> That should also install xorg, of course.
> Personally, I've been using ion3, but only because java swing guis don't
> play nice with dwm or xmonad, and one of my most used work apps (OmegaT)
> uses java swing.
Java apps work fine with Awesome, and it doesn't have the kind of
baggage that Ion does.
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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