While that is true, there has been some effort to get something working that can use xmonad to manage native applications: https://github.com/xmonad/osxmonad It was definitely alpha quality when I tried using it, but worked much better than I would have expected. On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Mark Pardijs wrote:

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I spend an evening trying to get xmonad under OSX Mountain Lion to work, but with little success... I followed this guides (http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_on_Apple_OSX#Modern_i..., http://sourcematters.org/2012/06/27/xmonad-on-os-x-lion.html, https://gist.github.com/3923233). I end up with having X11 configured as not run in Full screen mode, other wise nothing happens and I just see my normal OSX desktop. When I then start XQuartz app, I can start various xterms, or xlogo, or xman by pressing Mod-return, and switch to the default xmonad layouts, but don't get the idea how to manage opening other applications such as my browser or, for example, the Notes app. Can you explain how this should work and how to accomplish this?

OS X is not based on X11; native applications are not managed by xmonad (and can't be), and if you want the default bindings for launchers then you would need to install dmenu and/or gmrun from somewhere.

-- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net

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