Sean Neilan

There’s this window manager called Xmonad. It’s magnificient because it lets you manage windows with a keyboard. You have 8 or so portals to different workspaces on each monitor.

You can have different programs running on different workspaces and switch them by pressing Alt-~-0-9. Bring up a new program with Alt-p-p & then type the name of the program. Kill a program with Alt-Shift-C. Send windows to other desktops with Alt-Shift-W or E. Use Wmii bindings like mine. There’s a lot more to this xmonad and you can read my config file or just go here.

Xmonad is definitely an advancement in interaction with computers for those who are willing to go an extra step to learn new things.

I’ve been running Linux for a long time. For the most part, I’ve understood the various linux desktops as largely trying to be like windows but more powerful. (At least when you look at Gnome or KDE, the great front ends to Linux.)