Re: [xmonad] Vanilla Xmonad distribution

Le 2015年02月24日 07:55, Michael Norrish a écrit :

I’d also be very interested in hearing about what recent received wisdom is on this front.

Michael

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On 24 Feb 2015, at 4:05 pm, Alexander Genaud wrote:

Years ago, I set my girlfriend up with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and xmonad (0.8 or 0.9 maybe). With minor tweaks, mod4Mask, etc, it just worked for years.

This weekend, I tried to set up Linux Mint Mate, then Cinnamon, then Xubuntu (Xfce) with xmonad-0.11, each with their own unique issues. Xubuntu was most promising, but just doesn't work very well (panel disappears, or meta-key is intercepted such that Win-1 or Win-Shift-Return are typed into the highlighted app or ignored). I am reading a hodge-podge of different config tutorials focusing on an assortment of versions. I have not come across an installation/config wiki page that seemed relevant and up to date.

I'm willing to install just about any distribution (not Arch nor Gentoo) and nearly any DE, but I'd like all the niceties of a stable (LTS-ish) DE with graphical networking, application selection menus, panel, notifications, but with the latest xmonad tile windowing. I like the idea of Xfce because it's light weight and easy. Gnome2 fallback is fine too. I expected Mate would 'just work'. Hi, Sorry, but could you describe exactly what are the problems you encountered?

I run xmonad on a linuxmint 17.1 box. I use xfce-4 panel which give me access to all the joys of a clickodrome computer. I can start manually both thunar and nemo if I want (which is only the case when I need to mount a drive ; if someone could advise me how to do it easily on the CLI, I would' be glad). I run also xmonad on my debian stable laptop with fp panel or no panel and I have no criticism to exprime. Best regards, Alain