Talk:Xmonad

GHC only?
Does XMonad work on anything other than GHC? I think this should be noted somewhere.Catofax 08:17, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
 * The main StackSet.hs module does compile with Yhc most of the time (dons breaks it occasionally, but it does always get fixed). XMonad as a whole only works on GHC, as I believe the X11 libraries are only available for GHC. --User:NeilMitchell 22:52, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
 * It should run in Hugs -- X11 does. But that would be an odd thing to do.
 * I note, though, the article already says:
 * Platform: 	Cross-platform; requires X Window and GHC
 * It makes use of [..] GHC extensions like pattern guards
 * Seems clear enough.
 * -- Dons00 02:48, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * The use of pattern guards means that it won't compile on Hugs --NeilMitchell 10:54, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Incorrect 'features not available to dwm users' paragraph?
When discussing features which dwm apparently derived from xmonad, the size hinting feature is (incorrectly) mentioned, with illogical citations. These point to a discussion about making it the default (whereas it had previously been optional), and a patch to fix a logic error in the implementation, whereas dwm has supported size hints via the boolean 'sizehints' argument to resize before xmonad was even conceived (the first ~correct implementation which dates to 17 months ago, judging from the diff at http://www.suckless.org/hg.rc/dwm/rev/c478383db7c9 ). 142.177.235.63 (talk) 04:04, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

The Wiki
i removed (among others) the link to the wiki in the external links section, since it is to be found at the project homepage. If one truly is interested, one can follow the link to the homepage and see all that. However, it may be of value to the Wikipedia community that a project have its own wiki, so, the project wiki could be mentioned in the article (and then *maybe* a link to it would be OK). --Jerome Potts (talk) 04:41, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Needs a rewrite
I may not be a native English speaker but I know awful prose when I see it, and the xmonad article is a great example of it. It is unnecessarily complicated, ugly and includes stuff not suitable for a wiki article (who cares what the developers say?)

I suggest it be replaced by something simpler like:

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xmonad is a tiling window manager for X11 written in in Haskell and distributed on many Linux distributions and BSD systems.

Xmonad was originally a clone of dwm. It also supports per-workspace layout, tiling reflection, state preservation, layout mirroring, GNOME and per-screen status-bars. It is customized by editing a configuration file and reloading.

The community has developed various extensions including emulation of other windows managers and layout algorithms.

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To be honest that's a bit short, but I don't see anything relevant to add. QuickCheck and zippers don't merit mention any more than use of gdb and pointers in a C app. Catofax (talk) 19:37, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


 * While the use of a debugger and pointers is extremely common, the use of automated testing and derivative data structures is extremely unusual, and unique amongst programs in this domain, so your comparison would appear to be unsound. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.160.188.112 (talk) 04:43, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Question
What keyboard is in the desk photograph? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.242.48.132 (talk) 13:52, 10 August 2009 (UTC)


 * A Kinesis (keyboard). --Gwern (contribs) 19:09 16 October 2009 (GMT)

Xmonad, XMonad or xmonad?
This article is not consistent. It uses three different forms: Xmonad, XMonad and xmonad.

Which one is the correct one?

Mortense (talk) 19:36, 15 October 2009 (UTC)


 * They're all good. We've never been consistent about what the name is, and I gave up a long time ago trying to keep the documentation consistent. --Gwern (contribs) 19:05 16 October 2009 (GMT)


 * I think we should settle on one particular spelling. An appropriate one may be XMonad. See e.g. Xmonad/Config archive (yes, the headline is not consistent with the body). --Mortense (talk) 17:50, 17 February 2020 (UTC)


 * I'm minded the official website uses "xmonad" so my impression is to use that with the Wikipedia article being "Xmonad". I don't see  use of "XMonad".  I also see use of xmonad on the Ubuntu man page: .Djm-leighpark (talk) 18:33, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Availability on OS X?
Any source on Xmonad being available on OS X? I can't find a build for it on the download page, and also if I understand it correctly, Xmonad can only work on X windows, and OS X has long stopped shipping with X11.

I'm removing the OS X bit for now.

223.191.40.221 (talk) 06:26, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

Two more sources
Xmonad has received a mention in Lifehacker, and an xkcd webcomic had "...Someday we'll have xmonad as a Firefox extension"

Posted here as an editor is repeatedly removing them, it's neither a WP:TRIVIA section, or anything WP:OR and I believe the xkcd is an indication of the assertion of notability for tech culture. Widefox ; talk 18:30, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Ping User:Djm-leighpark, the Lifehacker source can be put back in, which will solve the cite error. Widefox ; talk 18:32, 18 September 2018 (UTC)