[xmonad] upstream version

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Mon Mar 2 13:10:15 UTC 2015


On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 6:50 AM, Alexander Genaud <alex at genaud.net> wrote:

> What holds up official releases, then? It seems to me, the state of Linux
> DE's has changed significantly since 2012. Xmonad 0.11 doesn't seem to play
> nice straight 'out of the box' on fresh installations of the latest,
> largest distributions.


It never has and quite possibly never will; EWMH is not in the core, and
many xmonad users explicitly do not *want* desktop environment support ("if
I wanted a desktop environment, I'd run one"). Minimalist window managers
are not maximalist window managers wearing sheep's clothing.

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