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

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'.

Is there a stable reference distro? Can someone point me to a tutorial from late 2014 or 2015 for installing xmonad on a recently distro? _______________________________________________ xmonad mailing list xmonad@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmonad

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On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:05 AM, Alexander Genaud wrote:

This weekend, I tried to set up Linux Mint Mate

I'm curious what problems you ran into here. (Also, did you use xmonad from darcs? There is XMonad.Config.Mate which clears up most of the discrepancies between Gnome 2 and Mate, and which I am using with Mint's Mate.) The only one I have noticed is needing to restart mate-panel due to a timing bug which is fixed upstream but not yet released; but that is unrelated to xmonad (it's triggered by VMware guest switching to full resolution after the panel starts). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net