[xmonad] New User Impressions

Brent Yorgey byorgey at seas.upenn.edu
Tue Jan 27 16:40:28 EST 2009


On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 07:26:32PM +1100, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> I am a new user of xmonad, but I've been poking around the mailing
> list, and noticed a rather old but interesting thread here:
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.xmonad/3803/focus=3823
> 
> I know that was a long time ago, but I'd like to give my feedback
> anyway.

Thanks for the feedback!

> 4) What things are missing?
> 
> a) xmonad appears to support fewer keybindings than other window managers;
> however, I got around this by installing xbindkeys and using those
> keys-which-xmonad-does-not-support to spawn programs rather than control
> the window manager.

I'm not sure what you mean by this.  What keybindings does xmonad not support?

-Brent


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