The Design and Implementation of XMonad

[fogus]

http://xmonad.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/the-design-and-implementation-of-xmonad/

[windsurfer]

I can't believe metacity is 50,000 lines of C code. I always thought it was so bland and minimalistic.

[gchpaco → windsurfer]

It doesn't do a whole lot for that, but C can be quite verbose and the standard Xlib bindings don't help at all.

[uninverted]

I use a really similar wm called Awesome (written in C and Lua), but I might switch once I grok haskell more.

[nixme → uninverted]

Another fellow awesome user on HN :)

I used xmonad for a while actually before switching to awesome. I found the latter easier to configure and better out of the box (especially with multiple displays), plus I wanted to learn Lua over Haskell at the time. I found my productivity increased dramatically using either.

[dylanz]

Great slides, and having tried nearly all of them, this is my favorite Window Manager.

[cliffdickerson → dylanz]

My favorite tilling WM http://wmii.suckless.org/ You can configure it with any scripting language but the downside is the help is lacking compared to the IRC community for XMonad and awesome.