[dundee] Tiling Window Managers & VirtualBox

[Kris Davidson]

Another +1 for xmonad, I've used it to set up a few monitoring
consoles and status displays, on a side note I really need to get me
one of those keyboards, always wanted to try one.

On 1 April 2010 20:05, Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 April 2010 16:49, Robert McWilliam <rmcw at allmail.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 04:33:17PM +0100, Nistur wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>>>
>>
>> Not sure it was the type of suggestion you were after, but: I'd
>> recommend xmonad. It has the best dual head support I've played with,
>> and is infinitely configurable since the configuration is actual haskell,
>> though you don't particularly need to know haskell for most
>> configurations.
>
> +1 xmonad...  I've never tried i3, and though it does look kinda
> cute... xmonads multi-head support is probably the best of any window
> manager.
>
> http://jehan.zemarmot.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/screen-triplehead-galois.png
>
> Its also infinitely configurable, and it's reasonably easy to
> copy/paste configs and get things going (Haskell knowledge isn't
> required, though I'm sure it helps!)
>
> I did like wmii, but sadly the developers dont believe in multi-head.
>
> R.
>
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