Re: Installing xmonad?

[Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:45, Tony Baldwin <photodharma@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kelly Clowers wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
> Hmmmm....
> I just aptitude got awesome and tried it.
> It does respond better than in Ubuntu, but some bindings are unproductive.
> win+r is supposed to give a run prompt, but does not.
> win-shift-q should kill it, but didn't.  I had to kill it by hand.
> A few other bindings were unproductive.
> Most importantly, it still didn't render my most used work app, OmegaT,
> which has some swing gui windows, correctly.

Huh, I wonder what is wrong with it.  Also, I think maybe some Java
issues where only fixed in 3.x, while it sounds like you are using 2.x
(I suppose you are on Stable). Oh well.


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers