[Xmonad] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Praise for xmonad :-)

Nice spot, Magnus. We at xmonad.org aim to please :) People might be also interested in a bit of an experience report on developing xmonad (and running an open source Haskell project) I gave at Galois a couple of weeks ago: http://galois.com/~dons/talks/xmonad-galois-0907.pdf Finally, while we're here, an xmonad talk and demo will be happening at the Haskell Workshop next week in Freiburg, and there's bound to be some xmonad hacking/install fest during the Hackathon too: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hac_2007_II The talk outline: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/papers/haskell51d-stewart.pdf -- Don magnus:

Seems xmonad is feeling the love. The attached mail turned up on the debian-user mailing list. It's high time xmonad gets packaged for Debian!

/M

Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:35:28 -0500 From: cothrige To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: efficiency of windows managers

"Javier Vasquez" writes:

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Don't know about windowMaker, but you might try:

fluxbox icewm pekwm fvwm2

You might find some pretty light, and some besides offering lots of fun and good looking features... I use fluxbox and a machine with 512M main, and 64M ati-rage is performing pretty well...

I know my choices may seem rather extreme by some, but if one is really seeking a lightweight wm I would suggest adding xmonad (with dzen2) to the above list. I have tried many small tools in this area, including ratpoison, ion3, and stumpwm, and xmonad is easily the fastest and has the smallest memory footprint I have found yet. As I have no experience with haskell compiling it was something of a learning experience, but it really wasn't too bad and has been more than worth it. It does just about everything I ever liked in ion3 (the next smallest IMHO), and all without Tuomo! :-)

Patrick