XMonad on OSX
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XMonad on OSX
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Re: XMonad on OSX
#2Yes, but it only works for managing X apps, not the standard ones OSX ships with.
Re: XMonad on OSX
#3Yes, but it only works for managing X apps, not the standard ones OSX ships with.
... and that makes it completely useless, sadly =(
I would love to have a tiling WM for MacOS X, but it seems impossible (unless Apple suddenly makes one themselves =).
Re: XMonad on OSX
#4I switched back to Linux last month after 5 years of OS X usage and XMonad was one of the main reasons.
Now, whenever I try using OS X on my 13 inch MBP again, the WM makes it feel really unproductive. Once I have few apps opened moving around is slow. Exposé and Spaces don't help much. It feels like going back to whatever good IDE from Emacs or Vim, not very fun.
In contrast, with a tiling manager, even small screens are bearable. I really recommend giving it a shot. Of course not everyone likes it, but I'd say it's not particularly unfriendly. Bindings are very simple. Setup is mostly straightforward.
Re: XMonad on OSX
#5Yes, but it only works for managing X apps, not the standard ones OSX ships with.
... and that makes it completely useless, sadly =( I would love to have a tiling WM for MacOS X, but it seems impossible (unless Apple suddenly makes one themselves =).
http://irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/
size up is worth a look, but it's not quite the same if you're used to Xmonad, that's for sure.
Re: XMonad on OSX
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
... and that makes it completely useless, sadly =( I would love to have a tiling WM for MacOS X, but it seems impossible (unless Apple suddenly makes one themselves =).
http://irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ size up is worth a look, but it's not quite the same if you're used to Xmonad, that's for sure.
Yes, I tried it, but gave up after a few days: it provides nothing that manual tiling doesn't (I have a background with a spot in the center, helps tiling 4 terminal windows).
Re: XMonad on OSX
#7I switched back to Linux last month after 5 years of OS X usage and XMonad was one of the main reasons. Now, whenever I try using OS X on my 13 inch MBP again, the WM makes it feel really unproductive. Once I have few apps opened moving around is slow. Exposé and Spaces don't help much. It feels like going back to whatever good IDE from Emacs or Vim, not very fun. In contrast, with a tiling manager, even small screen…
I just have a really hard time grokking haskell. I've been using stumpwm and it's awesome, but it integrates less well with gnome.
In the same boat -- 6 years OSX, installed Lucid RC on 13 inch MBP recently -- so far no intention of going back.
Re: XMonad on OSX
#8I switched back to Linux last month after 5 years of OS X usage and XMonad was one of the main reasons. Now, whenever I try using OS X on my 13 inch MBP again, the WM makes it feel really unproductive. Once I have few apps opened moving around is slow. Exposé and Spaces don't help much. It feels like going back to whatever good IDE from Emacs or Vim, not very fun. In contrast, with a tiling manager, even small screen…
I just have a really hard time grokking haskell. I've been using stumpwm and it's awesome, but it integrates less well with gnome. In the same boat -- 6 years OSX, installed Lucid RC on 13 inch MBP recently -- so far no intention of going back.
dwm is good, too. Sure, C isn't the greatest thing for exploratory programming, but configuring it isn't hard. (One of these days I might really learn X programming and do a tiled WM configured with Lua, but I've got too many projects already.)
wmii is also good, and once you get used to using libixp, you can script it in anything. I found wmii's named tabs interfered with muscle memory, though.
I used XMonad for a bit, but GHC is a hell of a dependency, and for a while there were problems getting any version newer than 6.6 to build on FreeBSD and OpenBSD. That's a dealbreaker for me.
Re: XMonad on OSX
#9Yes, but it only works for managing X apps, not the standard ones OSX ships with.
... and that makes it completely useless, sadly =( I would love to have a tiling WM for MacOS X, but it seems impossible (unless Apple suddenly makes one themselves =).
I'm working on an app to make window management as easy as possible: http://windowflow.com
It's about to relaunch with a significantly improved UI and more flexible tiling methods, so check back in a week if you don't like what you see now. Any feedback is appreciated.
Re: XMonad on OSX
#10I switched back to Linux last month after 5 years of OS X usage and XMonad was one of the main reasons. Now, whenever I try using OS X on my 13 inch MBP again, the WM makes it feel really unproductive. Once I have few apps opened moving around is slow. Exposé and Spaces don't help much. It feels like going back to whatever good IDE from Emacs or Vim, not very fun. In contrast, with a tiling manager, even small screen…
what kind of macbook do you have? and what kind of distro do you run on it?