[xmonad] xmonad-fork

Adam Vogt vogt.adam at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 20:45:27 EDT 2009


* On Sunday, April 26 2009, David Chanters wrote:

>2009/4/23 Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com>:
>> I came across this today linked in #darcs:
>> http://physics.oregonstate.edu/~roundyd/codes.php
>>
>> "xmonad-fork
>> xmonad-fork is a modified version of the xmonad window manager that I
>> use. You can get a copy of the source with
>>
>> darcs get http://physics.oregonstate.edu/~roundyd/code/xmonad-fork"
>>
>> 'twould seem Andrea and David have been collaborating extensively on
>> xmonad (by my count, there ~106 patches in this repo not present in
>> core/xmc). Some of them look interesting, but others deal with
>> internals I'm not very familiar with.
>
>Sounds to me like this should be rectified, consolidated somehow.  The
>reasons for such a fork ought to be considered too... sounds like an
>oddity to me.  Why weren't the original problems that caused the fork
>addressed in the first place?
>
>David

There are some additional patches here (Andrea's repo?), some of which
with a similar purpose and implementation as
XMonad.Util.WindowProperties from contrib, and some decorated floating
layer support:

http://gorgias.mine.nu/repos/xmonad-fork/

--
Adam


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