[xmonad] Vanilla Xmonad distribution

[Alain Bertrand]

Le 2015年02月24日 07:55, Michael Norrish a écrit :
> I’d also be very interested in hearing about what recent received wisdom is on this front.
>
> Michael
>
>> On 24 Feb 2015, at 4:05 pm, Alexander Genaud <alex at genaud.net> wrote:
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>> Years ago, I set my girlfriend up with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and xmonad (0.8 or 0.9 maybe). With minor tweaks, mod4Mask, etc, it just worked for years.
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>> This weekend, I tried to set up Linux Mint Mate, then Cinnamon, then Xubuntu (Xfce) with xmonad-0.11, each with their own unique issues. Xubuntu was most promising, but just doesn't work very well (panel disappears, or meta-key is intercepted such that Win-1 or Win-Shift-Return are typed into the highlighted app or ignored). I am reading a hodge-podge of different config tutorials focusing on an assortment of versions. I have not come across an installation/config wiki page that seemed relevant and up to date.
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>> I'm willing to install just about any distribution (not Arch nor Gentoo) and nearly any DE, but I'd like all the niceties of a stable (LTS-ish) DE with graphical networking, application selection menus, panel, notifications, but with the latest xmonad tile windowing. I like the idea of Xfce because it's light weight and easy. Gnome2 fallback is fine too. I expected Mate would 'just work'.
Hi,
Sorry, but could you describe exactly what are the problems you encountered?

I run xmonad on a linuxmint 17.1 box. I use xfce-4 panel which give me 
access to all the joys of a clickodrome computer. I can start manually 
both thunar and nemo if I want (which is only the case when I need to 
mount a drive ; if someone could advise me how to do it easily on the 
CLI, I would' be glad).

I run also xmonad on my debian stable laptop with fp panel or no panel 
and I have no criticism to exprime.

Best regards,

Alain