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tomd123

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 565

Re: the perfect tiling WM... qtile?

Hmmm. Don't think I would switch from XMonad just yet. Two minuses regarding XMonad for me are the size of its dependencies (ghc = +500M installed) and my less than stellar Haskell skills. I'm working on the later though. The size of the dependencies isn't a major issue I guess with disk space being so cheap these days.

I like the idea of a WM written in python. Might check it out at some point once it matures a bit. XMonad's reliability is quite ridiculous. Can't recall the last crash I had in X.

http://www.qtile.org/index.html

One of the arguments against XMonad is the diskspace it takes, wich is silly because diskspace isn't a problem in the world of today. Another argument for XMonad is the large amount of extra libary's, but I am not posting to promote XMonad, I am just so used to XMonad that i wouldnt consider trying another tiller. ( But I said that too when i was running openbox )

Ditto

roy_hu

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Registered: 2009-10-29

Posts: 85

Re: the perfect tiling WM... qtile?

If you're using or learning Haskell, you wouldn't mind the space of ghc anyway. If you don't know Haskell, you wouldn't use XMonad because customzing it, especially trying to wrap your head around the error messages, would be a disaster.

Yannick_LM

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Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 142

Re: the perfect tiling WM... qtile?

Back to original topic.

I've been using WMII for a while, but somehow I don't like relying on plan9 for it to work....

What's really nice with qtile is that it is *very* hackable:

(the "Stack layout" in qtile allows you to have "empty" stacks. I did not like it, but was able to change this in just a few lines of code.)

I also like the fact it's based on nice libraries like xdg and pango.

EDIT: oh, and I forgot: it has a systray, too !

Last edited by Yannick_LM (2011-01-04 23:10:04)

liangxuliang

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Registered: 2010-07-09

Posts: 13

Re: the perfect tiling WM... qtile?

I build qtile-git from aur, but I got error when I try to start qtile. anybody know how to resolve that ?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/qtile", line 72, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/qtile", line 66, in main
    q = manager.Qtile(c, fname=options.socket)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libqtile/manager.py", line 643, in __init__
    self.groups[i],
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libqtile/manager.py", line 142, in _configure
    i._configure(qtile, self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libqtile/bar.py", line 156, in _configure
    self.height
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libqtile/drawer.py", line 138, in __init__
    self.height,
TypeError: pycairo was not compiled with xpyb support

Mr.Elendig

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Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,092

Re: the perfect tiling WM... qtile?

build pycairo with xpyb support.

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liangxuliang

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Registered: 2010-07-09

Posts: 13

Re: the perfect tiling WM... qtile?

build pycairo with xpyb support.

how ??

I have installed pycairo-xcb-git,xpyb-git,cairo-xcb-tee from aur.

dipilibupap

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Registered: 2011-02-05

Posts: 47

Re: the perfect tiling WM... qtile?

Having the same problem as up top rite now.. Any solution for what #29 said please ?

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