-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 So, in my never-ending quest to have as short and concise an xmonad.hs as possible, I've turned my attention to my 'greenXPConfig'. This definition is eating up a gargantuan 10 lines of my xmonad.hs! Thus, I'm wondering about people's use of 'defaultXPConfig'; from Prompt.hs: defaultXPConfig :: XPConfig defaultXPConfig = XPC { font = "-misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" , bgColor = "#333333" , fgColor = "#FFFFFF" , fgHLight = "#000000" , bgHLight = "#BBBBBB" , borderColor = "#FFFFFF" , promptBorderWidth = 1 , position = Bottom , height = 18 , historySize = 256 , historyFilter = id , defaultText = [] , autoComplete = Nothing , showCompletionOnTab = False } According to my xmonad archive, 15 configurations make use of the default in some way. My question is: are these defaults really optimal? I'll take them in order. 1) The font strikes me as a bad setting. I checked it out just now, and my eyes water at the tininess of 10. It seems to me that a far more reasonable setting would be something like 14 or 16; but I don't know whether a 16 setting would be alright for EE users. I feel though that 10 works out for no one. 2) The color scheme is currently a sort of white-on-grey. It lacks contrast, IMO. Here I have 2 suggestions: 2.1) The current color values are pretty opaque. Unless you have color-values memorized, ', bgColor = "#333333"' is absolutely meaningless to you. Intrigeri's xmonad.hs has a XPConfig which looks like: fgColor = "grey80" , bgColor = "grey22" , borderColor = "grey22" The prompt appears much the same, but the values are far more comprehensible. Even if we don't change the color scheme, this would constitute a code cleanup IMO. 2.2) I would like to switch to either green text on black (which gets us bonus hacker points :) and better contrast), or white text on black - - as opposed to white text on gray. Thoughts on either color scheme? (Green-on-black would be , bgColor = "black"\n, fgColor = "green" obviously.) 3) Do people actually like the border? 5 xmonad.hss specifically disable it by setting 'promptBorderWidth = 0'. I confess it just seems like wasted space to me. It's not like a dark-gray/green/black background make it hard to make out the prompt against the application window. 4) Positioning: top, or bottom? I myself am weakly in favor of top. The configs are odd here - there are ~4 which set to Top, and 5 or so which set it to Bottom. Even though Bottom is the default. 4 configurations override the config to put the box at the top of the screen. ??? - -- gwern -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREKAAYFAkkbnO4ACgkQvpDo5Pfl1oJtZwCeP3AYcnR0CY8Qnh0eJHUfYUcI fI4AniFqx7+Ikclqvngb7989ZfMsJFAi =oDtp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----