peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> I've tried to combine on one line and neither of these works.
> $ nohup xmonad > ~/.xsession-errors 2>&1 & ; disown
> $ nohup xmonad > ~/.xsession-errors 2>&1 & \; disown
> Someone please give a correct syntax.
Try it without the extra ';' there.
$ nohup xmonad > ~/.
From: Bob Proulx
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:49:38 -0600
> You can run very well with X and a window manager and without a desktop
> environment.
Definitely I've taken note but for now I'm leaving LXDE.
For example, the task bar at the bottom of the screen is helpful
and I haven't learned to o
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> man update-alternatives has no mention of how the priorities of
> alternatives originate. The most reasonable explanation I can
> imagine is that any new alternative is assigned a lower priority
> than extant alternatives. Correct?
The package postinst script will i
peasth...@shaw.ca writes:
> man update-alternatives has no mention of how the priorities of
> alternatives originate. The most reasonable explanation I can
> imagine is that any new alternative is assigned a lower priority
> than extant alternatives. Correct?
>
The packager chooses the prior
man update-alternatives has no mention of how the priorities of
alternatives originate. The most reasonable explanation I can
imagine is that any new alternative is assigned a lower priority
than extant alternatives. Correct?
My example from last July.
peter@dalton:~$ update-alternatives --di
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:14 PM, wrote:
> Incidentally, xmonad.man refers to the mod key but never mentions what
> it is. + gave the dmenu. On a PC keyboard, mod appears to be Alt.
>
You can change the mod key. See:
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Frequently_asked_questions#Rebindin
From: Bob Proulx
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:57:03 -0600
> When doing things like that with the window manager I usually start a
> terminal first. I like xterm.
OK, xmonad ran and mod-p gave a dmenu as a list of commands in
a ribbon across the top of the screen. The left and right arrow ke
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 07:39:59PM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> From: Bob Proulx
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:49:38 -0600
> > ... before switching to xmonad you should kill exit openbox first.
>
> Killing the openbox process is easy but how can another WM be
> started? There is no terminal
Bob Proulx wrote:
> More pedantically that last should probably be:
>
> $ nohup xmonad ~/.xsession-errors 2>&1 &
> $ disown
Oops. Probably append instead of overwrite.
$ nohup xmonad > ~/.xsession-errors 2>&1 &
$ disown
Bob
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peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > ... before switching to xmonad you should kill exit openbox first.
>
> Killing the openbox process is easy but how can another WM be
> started? There is no terminal on the target system and xmonad lacks
> a display parameter which might allow st
From: Bob Proulx
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:49:38 -0600
> ... before switching to xmonad you should kill exit openbox first.
Killing the openbox process is easy but how can another WM be
started? There is no terminal on the target system and xmonad lacks
a display parameter which might all
From: "John L. Cunningham"
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:32:19 -0400
> You may want to search for xmonad on youtube to
> see it in action.
Nice demonstrations, thanks. The ETH Oberon interface is
similar except that the inter-track boundary isn't moveable.
I'm interested to see how well naviga
John L. Cunningham wrote:
> peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> > In all the screenshots I've seen, the xmonad windows occupy the
> > whole screen with nothing else visible at the edges. So I wonder
> > whether xmonad can run on X without a desktop environment.
> > Explanations?
>
> xmonad is a tiling win
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:45:00 -0800
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> From: "Cybe R. Wizard"
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:02:28 -0500
> > started it by issuing:
> > xmonad --replace
>
> peter@dalton:~$ xmonad --replace
> xmonad: user error (unrecognized flags)
>
> peter@dalton:~$ xmonad --help
> Usage:
From: "Cybe R. Wizard"
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:02:28 -0500
> started it by issuing:
> xmonad --replace
peter@dalton:~$ xmonad --replace
xmonad: user error (unrecognized flags)
peter@dalton:~$ xmonad --help
Usage: xmonad [OPTION]
Options:
--help Print this message
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:29:32AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> In all the screenshots I've seen, the xmonad windows occupy the whole screen
> with nothing else visible at the edges. So I wonder whether xmonad can run
> on X without a desktop environment. Explanations?
xmonad is a tiling
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:29:32 -0800
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> Does anyone here use xmonad? How do you start it?
I just now installed it on my Debian Sid LXDE and started it by issuing:
xmonad --replace
I couldn't do a thing with it and re-started my xserver, then went
and read:
man xmonad.
I s
On Thu 2012-07-12 10:29:32 AM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> Currently I'm interested to try xmonad. Wikipedia tells
> that it is a window manager. The xmonad metapackage is
> installed. /usr/share/doc/xmonad/README has
> Running xmonad:
> Add:
> $HOME/bin/xmonad
> to the last line
xdm and LXDE are installed here. Wikipedia tells that xdm
is a display manager and LXDE is a desktop environment. I'm
convinced that the acronyms are consistent with function.
No outstanding problems with either of these softwares.
Currently I'm interested to try xmonad. Wikipedia tells
th
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