[xmonad] How to start xmonad with lxde?

Carsten Mattner carstenmattner at gmail.com
Thu Dec 25 16:52:54 UTC 2014


On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> While true, I think everybody installs xmonad-contrib and that means
>> example configurations should be updated to use shellPrompt instead.
>
>
> I personally think that configs should start form desktopConfig instead of
> defaultConfig, because that provides the base behavior that most people
> expect these days, but that doesn't mean it's going to happen or that
> desktopConfig and its dependencies will be merged into the core. (Note that
> I am not involved with the core directly.)

I can't disagree with that and we should have nicer defaults for an improved
first impression or integration with desktop environments.


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