
Hi there, new xmonad user here ! I've been using and customizing it for the last 3 days. I like it very much and i think it's going to be my wm for the next decades... unless you drop devs or change license ? (My ion3 syndrom again, never mind ;-) So, this little word to say a big thank you for this great WM. I like everything about its design : unbloated, clever, vim oriented keybindings (although i guess emacs users can easyly make it to their taste), etc. Not to mention Haskell ! I'm not a developper but i learn Haskel and it's the first time i have pleasure doing so. Beautifull language ! I'll never try to learn C again :) The only thing i miss, so far, from ion3, is the ability to have non-dynamic layouts and the ability to call layouts by name, in order to bind them to a key. Some layouts are cool but only for some applications. Cycling through rarely used layouts is not convenient. I was also used to pop the scratchpad which i miss a little, but the more i do things the xmonad way, the less i feel the need for it. The only problem i had so far is with a JAVA/Swing application (blank window), but the solution http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.xmonad/961 googled quickly. Anyway, my gratitude and my compliments to people involved in Xmonad developpement. Alexandre

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 05:27:12PM +0200, alexandre wrote:
The only thing i miss, so far, from ion3, is the ability to have non-dynamic layouts and the ability to call layouts by name, in order to bind them to a key. Some layouts are cool but only for some applications. Cycling through rarely used layouts is not convenient.
This is something I've thought about, and I'm sure other developers have also. I think in a release or two of xmonad you can anticipate having the set of layouts available on a given workspace configurable (actually, it already could be done via an extension in XMonadContrib). Allowing key bindings directly onto particular layouts would also be a natural feature to add. It'd be particularly helpful to easily switch between fullscreen and back to whatever layout one was previously using. These should be pretty easy changes to make, but one would like to put in the right infrastructure so that it will be even easier (and prettier). -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University
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