Re: [xmonad] Comparison of "extensible window managers"

2011/9/6 Teika Kazura :

Thanks, Gwern. So your line of interest is similar to mine. :)

I have one question: the page you referred to says "live hacking [in stumpwm] means you can hose your X session"

It's correct, and I have done it several times in Sawfish, like infinite loops. (I've never tried StumpWM.) But isn't it the same for any of these WMs that if you have errors in your code, your WM can be almost unusable, no? Or is it less likely in haskell?

There are definitely some errors xmonad does not prevent: for example if you write layouts which for whatever reason call `sendMessage' or `refresh' it is easy to get an infinite loop. Perhaps that's why very little code in contrib does that. Adam