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| 2020-12-22 08:10:39 | <RaderH2O> | Okay , still black screen |
| 2020-12-22 08:11:16 | <RaderH2O> | idk why , doing `xmonad --recompile` wouldn't give any errors at all , and the `~/.xmonad/xmonad.errors` is blank too |
| 2020-12-22 08:11:54 | <RaderH2O> | I have to kill the session with `loginctl` every time , so I get back to my normal session |
| 2020-12-22 08:12:09 | <RaderH2O> | If XMonad is not gonna work , idk if I'm gonna stick with i3 or no |
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| 2020-12-22 17:09:48 | <ectospasm> | Uh, by default XMonad has a blank screen. You could probably do mod+shift+q to exit out of XMonad. But they left so they won't see these words of wisdom. |
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| 2020-12-22 17:44:27 | <benley> | you have to admit, xmonad doesn't have the friendliest new user experience, what with the default black screen and all |
| 2020-12-22 17:52:51 | <dminuoso> | benley: Do you have a proposal what it should have instead? |
| 2020-12-22 17:52:55 | <ectospasm> | it just means someone didn't read or understand the documentation. |
| 2020-12-22 17:53:18 | <dminuoso> | I mean we could have a welcome screen on the first time it starts.. |
| 2020-12-22 17:53:24 | <ectospasm> | It's been so long since I first used XMonad, that I don't remember if I asked about it, too. |
| 2020-12-22 17:53:37 | <dminuoso> | Is i3 any different with that regard? |
| 2020-12-22 17:53:44 | <ectospasm> | I had a coworker encourage me to use it. |
| 2020-12-22 17:54:10 | dminuoso | just uses xmonad since he's a full time haskell developer anyway - it made sense to use a fully programmable WM inside his comfort zone |
| 2020-12-22 17:54:31 | <ectospasm> | heh, I don't understand Haskell well enough |
| 2020-12-22 17:54:50 | <ectospasm> | I don't use it regularly, so i have to relearn just enough to get something working. |
| 2020-12-22 17:55:16 | <ectospasm> | The last time that happened, it was a lot less painful than I was expecting. |
| 2020-12-22 17:55:35 | <dminuoso> | Yeah, my setup is a bit more elaborate than just setting default options.. :-) |
| 2020-12-22 17:55:40 | dminuoso | treats xmonad as a WM library |
| 2020-12-22 17:55:41 | <ectospasm> | But granted, I wasn't trying to do anything fancy. Just set up the default gridselect |
| 2020-12-22 17:57:49 | <dminuoso> | ectospasm: At times I really do wonder how non-Haskellers get by. |
| 2020-12-22 17:58:06 | <dminuoso> | But it seems xmonad-contrib is plug-and-play enough without much Haskell |
| 2020-12-22 17:59:08 | <ectospasm> | dimestop: here's my xmonad.hs that I've developed over the last 10-12 years: https://git.eldon.me/trey/XMonad |
| 2020-12-22 17:59:32 | <ectospasm> | I've got too much blood, sweat, and tears built into it to ever go anywhere else. |
| 2020-12-22 18:00:03 | <ectospasm> | Don't be too critical of that config, most of it was done trying to get certain things working. |
| 2020-12-22 18:00:47 | <dminuoso> | Nothing to be critical about, if it works for you it works for you. |
| 2020-12-22 18:00:59 | <dminuoso> | If you're not in my Haskell team, I have no reason to critize you for it. :) |
| 2020-12-22 18:16:29 | <ectospasm> | I just like that if xmonad compiles, it won't crash. Getting it to compile is the hard part. |
| 2020-12-22 18:40:59 | <benley> | dminuoso: oops sorry for starting that and then getting distracted - I think I would propose something pretty minimal, like if you start xmonad without a config it pops up a xmessage or xterm showing a "welcome to xmonad, here's a link to the documentation and the default keybindings..." message |
| 2020-12-22 18:41:36 | <benley> | Even as someone who has run xmonad on and off for ~10 years, I still find myself confused by the blank screen on new installs from time to time. |
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| 2020-12-22 19:23:42 | <benley> | also I definitely mean this as constructive feedback, not a complaint. Xmonad's great, it was my onramp to learning Haskell in general. |
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| 2020-12-22 19:25:11 | <geekosaur> | we do already have mod-shift-slash (mod-?) which puts up a help screen. I could see us putting that up on the first time xmonad is run, perhaps |
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| 2020-12-22 19:27:23 | <benley> | That would be quite helpful! Pretty much anything at all other than a blank screen would be better for first-time users, imho. |
| 2020-12-22 19:45:32 | <vrs> | blank screen with an xmonad logo in the lower right |
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| 2020-12-22 20:00:37 | <benley> | I've been somewhat tempted to bring something like taffybar or xmobar inside my xmonad config, even though it's probably a terrible idea for stability and sanity |
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| 2020-12-22 20:01:37 | <ectospasm> | why is that a terrible idea? I use dzen2 in a few places. |
| 2020-12-22 20:03:29 | <benley> | oh I mean running them inside the xmonad process |
| 2020-12-22 20:04:09 | <ectospasm> | Well, they will be child processes of xmonad, the way I have it configured. |
| 2020-12-22 20:04:52 | <benley> | Aye, that is sensible. I was just thinking like, xmobar and taffybar are already in haskell, what if I used one of them as a library instead of a subprocess? |
| 2020-12-22 20:05:08 | <ADG1089__> | why does it say that "xmonad not found in path"? it's in both zshrc & bashrc |
| 2020-12-22 20:05:10 | <benley> | But I'm not sure if there is a good reason to do it |
| 2020-12-22 20:05:14 | <geekosaur> | running them inside won't work well as long as xmonad uses X11's event loop instead of its own |
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