On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:04:27PM -0700, brad clawsie wrote:
i recently saw xmonad mentioned on reddit, but there was a quick followup that it was not quite ready for public use. has this changed?
Depends. I haven't started hacking xmonad yet, but out of xmonad, fvwm2, ion, ion3, ratpoison, sawfish, and twm I find xmonad by far the easiest to use :)
i am a current dwm user and generally love the tiling concept, although i do not care for dwm's source code-based config system. will xmonad support a plain-text conf file?
NEVER!!! :) OK, it might. but it really doesn't need one, haskell's syntax is nice enough that the config file doesn't really smell like Haskell. Here's a sample line: , ((modMask, xK_t ), spawn "sleep 0.1 ; exec /home/stefan/chvt 1")
beyond being written in haskell, are there any compelling features in xmonad (planned or to-date) to differentiate it?
Much less code (~500 lines), Xinerama support, very active real-time user support community in #haskell.
how does xmonad compare to dwm with regards to system resrouce use?
The difference between C and Haskell is neglible compared to the all-surpassing bloat of Xlib. Spencer Janssen has received a SoC grant to write a Haskell binding for the much-leaner second generation XCB library, so chances are Xmonad will soon use much less resources than dwm. Stefan