I've been interested in using a tiling window manager for some time. Although I have had dwm, awesome and xmonad installed on my laptop, I've never spent more than a couple of hours on them.

This post describes how to install and use xmonad, its keyboard shortcuts, basic terminology involved with tiling window managers. And a little bit info on other available tiling window managers.

What good is having a large display if you're constantly rearranging windows to fit them on the screen? I got tired of try to fit a web browser with other smaller windows and decided to try xmonad, a tiling window manager that could do this for me.

"...This is the xmonad window manager, programmed in Haskell and usually running on my Desktop, now on my mobile phone! ..." --
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"...I decided to do my own build rather than live without xmonad, but rather than mucking about with tarballs I could at least now get the source from the package repository.

The appropriate steps, for anyone interested or having the same problem, are: ..."

You probably already know that a tiling window manager is one of the alternatives often provided by distributions alongside the standard Gnome or KDE Plasma desktops.

In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more popular approach of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects (windows) that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor.

"...I like StumpWM, which is a tiling window manager modeled after ratpoison (and all other tiling managers before it). Its command set is a good mix of GNU Screen and emacs. Its also written in pure Common Lisp [...] I’ve been using StumpWM for a couple of days. I am trying to quit Gnome cold-turkey, and so far have been successful. All of my applications work..."

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