[auxym]

I tried awesome, and was somewhat disapointed by a community that felt 'dead'. Searching google for answers to questions I had often yielded old, out-of-date answers not relevant to the current version. I did however appreciate the ease of configuring it with Lua.

If I feel like trying a tiling wm again, I think I'd go with xmonad. From reading, it seems to have decent defaults, and it'd a good opportunity to start playing with Haskell.

I wish integrating tiling wm's with regular DE's, even lightweight ones (lxde, xfce) would be more popular. When switching all out to awesome, I missed the conveniences like a tray with wifi and sound volume. I just want a DE, with tiling windows!

[Symmetry]

If you're running Ubuntu then if you

  apt-get install xmonad gnome-panel

a GNOME with Xmonad option will appear in your login screen. Then you have to create an xmonad configuration that works with GNOME like so

  import XMonad
  import XMonad.Config.Gnome

  main = do
      xmonad $ gnomeConfig

in .xmonad/xmonad.hs and everything will work.

[rkrzr]

Mind = blown. That's awesome, I'll have to give this a try. I used to run XMonad on Arch, but then I switched to Ubuntu a couple of years back and got with the Unity program. But if I can have the best of both worlds, I'm sold. The icing on the cake would be if a drop-down terminal like Tilda still works with this hybrid setup as well.

[th0br0]

I've been using xmonad for ... well, guess it's been the past 3 years now. Never had to change the config or adapt to API changes as I had with LUA and things just work. Plus, it's quite performant (although it has some input-looping related quirks sometimes) and hardly takes up any memory. Can only recommend it to people new to the tiling wm scene.

[chriswarbo]

I used Enlightenment 16 in Gnome 2 for years, but Gnome 3 seems to take more of an everything-or-nothing approach. These days I'm using Xmonad standalone, plus Xmobar as a kind of pipe-driven, text-only notification area. If I ever need a system tray, I run trayer (and curse whoever designed the program that requires it!).

[S4M]

There [0], how to use xMonad with xfce, I followed the instructions and it worked fine. I didn't have any problem to roll back either.

https://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_X...