How easy would it be to get xmonad up and running on a Pyra?

[Amnykon]

I plan on using xmonad on my Pyra. How easy would it be to get xmonad up and running on it?

 

[TrashyMG]

sudo apt install xmonad

 

[Amnykon]

I was hoping it was that easy. Thanks.
[doublepost=1491484332,1491484261][/doublepost]Is anyone else planning on using xmonad?

 

[ible]

i'll probably use i3, keeping windows full screen most of the time (for limited real estate)...

 

[eric]

I use ratpoison on my Pandora and would expect to do the same on the Pyra.

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[Silent-Hunter]

i'll probably use i3, keeping windows full screen most of the time (for limited real estate)...

Thank you for telling me about i3, it looks very nice.
[doublepost=1491608426,1491606632][/doublepost]It'll need some sort of PND/DBP launching thingy though. Perhaps Albert.

 

[TrashyMG]

Thank you for telling me about i3, it looks very nice.
[doublepost=1491608426,1491606632][/doublepost]It'll need some sort of PND/DBP launching thingy though. Perhaps Albert.

Both I3 and xmonad should just launch from the desktop manager... we're not dealing with the constrained environment like the Pandora.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

Both I3 and xmonad should just launch from the desktop manager... we're not dealing with the constrained environment like the Pandora.

Yes, but will whatever they use for a menu be able to handle dbp stuff? i3 appears to use dmenu, and it only looks for stuff that's in PATH.

 

[edgex004]

I use j4-dmenu-desktop as a PND launcher and it works GREAT when installed to NAND. It hasn't really worked to package as a PND, though.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

I also imagine the Pyra's phone software will likely use a notification area icon, which i3 doesn't seem to have.

EDIT: Nevermind, i3 does have a notification area.

 

[ible]

i3 can be installed from debian (sudo apt-get install i3-wm), and whatever login manager we use will be aware of the DE that are available. i've installed a few, and you can select one at login.

i wouldn't recommend doing OS thingies with the DBP stuff; that's more for games and pyra specific utilities i imagine...

 

[Silent-Hunter]

i wouldn't recommend doing OS thingies with the DBP stuff; that's more for games and pyra specific utilities i imagine...

Yeah, but I'd still wanna launch those things from within i3, that's my only real concern. But I'll just use Albert. It's amazing.

 

[TrashyMG]

I believe @slaeshjag made DBP very flexible with Desktop environments, hell you can launch programs inside DBPs easily from command line. As in just run it vs pnd_run.sh --bunch --of --arguments

 

[Silent-Hunter]

I believe @slaeshjag made DBP very flexible with Desktop environments, hell you can launch programs inside DBPs easily from command line. As in just run it vs pnd_run.sh --bunch --of --arguments

Oh! That's good to hear!

 

[Kippykip]

I believe @slaeshjag made DBP very flexible with Desktop environments, hell you can launch programs inside DBPs easily from command line. As in just run it vs pnd_run.sh --bunch --of --arguments

Then there's me who can barely make a .DEB file properly

 

[bzar]

I use Rofi as a launcher in i3. It also has a Desktop file launch mode, which should work nicely with .dbp in addition to running through the wrapper scripts in PATH. I'd suspect it would work with xmonad as well.

 

[slaeshjag]

You probably won't need the .desktop mode. For the .desktop launchers in a package to do anything, it has to be in path anyway.

 

[RubisDrake]

Once Debian gets a TWM Wayland desktop in their repos, I'll start using Sway, probably.

Right now I use openbsd-cwm (Calm WM).