Hehe, my original idea was inspired by your "Pimp your XMonad" series of blog posts, so defintely we can try to do a mashup. I started writing the draft with this in mind "what are the first things that a person should want of XMonad after installing it and trying", that's because statusbar is first, etc, etc. I think we should try to follow that "logical" way, from more common tweaking to bizarre things only to show off the power of XMonad :) bye! On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Braden Shepherdson wrote:

Ismael Carnales wrote:

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Hello, first I want to adress that dmenu and gmrun (both in the default keybindings and dmenu mentioned in the guided tour) are not listed as related tools in the download webpage (http://xmonad.org/download.html), i think they belong there.

Secondly I'm starting a doc that pretends to be a guided tour lookalike of some of the XMonad Contrib, I'm starting this mainly because I think it's very difficult for newcomers to discover what extra features XMonad provides. Haddock documentation is pretty useful when you know what you are looking for, but when you're looking around to find if some feature is implemented already, the way that the documentation is indexed (by alphabetical order) doesn't help much.

The in progress document is located here http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/XMonadContribTour and all are welcomed to contribute/comment/correct/etc.

byebye!

I have some progress on something like this on my blog[1], what I've named the Pimp Your XMonad series of posts. The goal is to highlight cool things new users might not have known xmonad can do, and how to set them up. It grew out of the commonly seen sequence on #xmonad: <A> Can xmonad do feature X? <B> Yeah, that XMonad.Foo.Bar <A> Thanks <C> Whoa, it can do that? I never thought that might be possible.

Perhaps the two should be combined in some way?

Braden Shepherdson shepheb

[1] http://braincrater.wordpress.com

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On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:58:07AM -0500, Braden Shepherdson wrote:

I have some progress on something like this on my blog[1], what I've named the Pimp Your XMonad series of posts. The goal is to highlight cool things new users might not have known xmonad can do, and how to set them up. It grew out of the commonly seen sequence on #xmonad: <A> Can xmonad do feature X? <B> Yeah, that XMonad.Foo.Bar <A> Thanks <C> Whoa, it can do that? I never thought that might be possible. [snip] [1] http://braincrater.wordpress.com

Yes, I found those posts to be helpful. When's the next one coming out? Kathryn Andersen -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen http://www.katspace.com / \ | \_.--.*/ | GenFicCrit mailing list http://www.katspace.com/gen_fic_crit/ v | ------------| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | -> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe

Yup, of course :) On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Don Stewart wrote:

icarnales:

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Hello, first I want to adress that dmenu and gmrun (both in the default keybindings and dmenu mentioned in the guided tour) are not listed as related tools in the download webpage (http://xmonad.org/download.html), i think they belong there.

Secondly I'm starting a doc that pretends to be a guided tour lookalike of some of the XMonad Contrib, I'm starting this mainly because I think it's very difficult for newcomers to discover what extra features XMonad provides. Haddock documentation is pretty useful when you know what you are looking for, but when you're looking around to find if some feature is implemented already, the way that the documentation is indexed (by alphabetical order) doesn't help much.

The in progress document is located here http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/XMonadContribTour and all are welcomed to contribute/comment/correct/etc.

Would you like to post parts incrementally on the blog?