[Haskell-cafe] Praise for xmonad :-)

[Don Stewart]

Nice spot, Magnus. We at xmonad.org aim to please :)

People might be also interested in a bit of an experience report on
developing xmonad (and running an open source Haskell project) I gave at
Galois a couple of weeks ago:

    http://galois.com/~dons/talks/xmonad-galois-0907.pdf

Finally, while we're here, an xmonad talk and demo will be happening 
at the Haskell Workshop next week in Freiburg, and there's bound
to be some xmonad hacking/install fest during the Hackathon too:

    http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hac_2007_II

The talk outline:

    http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/papers/haskell51d-stewart.pdf

-- Don

magnus:
> Seems xmonad is feeling the love.  The attached mail turned up on the
> debian-user mailing list.  It's high time xmonad gets packaged for
> Debian!
> 
> /M
> 
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:35:28 -0500
> From: cothrige <cothrige at bellsouth.net>
> To: debian-user at lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: efficiency of windows managers
> 
> "Javier Vasquez" <jevv.cr at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >
> > Don't know about windowMaker, but you might try:
> >
> > fluxbox
> > icewm
> > pekwm
> > fvwm2
> >
> > You might find some pretty light, and some besides offering lots of
> > fun and good looking features...  I use fluxbox and a machine with
> > 512M main, and 64M ati-rage is performing pretty well...
> 
> I know my choices may seem rather extreme by some, but if one is really
> seeking a lightweight wm I would suggest adding xmonad (with dzen2) to
> the above list.  I have tried many small tools in this area, including
> ratpoison, ion3, and stumpwm, and xmonad is easily the fastest and has
> the smallest memory footprint I have found yet.  As I have no experience
> with haskell compiling it was something of a learning experience, but it
> really wasn't too bad and has been more than worth it.  It does just
> about everything I ever liked in ion3 (the next smallest IMHO), and all
> without Tuomo! :-)
> 
> Patrick