On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 05:26, Tony Baldwin <photodha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Foss User wrote: >> >> I have a simple Debian installation with no desktop environment or >> xserver. I want to try xmonad. Will this be enough to install xmonad? >> >> aptitude update >> aptitude install xserver-xorg xmonad >> >> ? >> >> > > Aptitude should grab any dependencies. > Try dwm or ion3. > > dwm is lighter than xmonad, I think, although to do any configuration, you > have to completely recompile it. Navigation is about identical to xmonad. > All you need to get dwm is aptitude install dwm dwm-tools. > That should also install xorg, of course. > Personally, I've been using ion3, but only because java swing guis don't > play nice with dwm or xmonad, and one of my most used work apps (OmegaT) > uses java swing.
Java apps work fine with Awesome, and it doesn't have the kind of baggage that Ion does. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
