You can install a different bar in xmonad other than polybar.Xmobar is an alternative bar to use. There are others out there.As always check your arch wiki and read the text.https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XmobarThen we install this xmobar with the help of this...

The standard bar on Xmonad is polybar. But we wanted to provide you with an alternative called XMOBAR.Copy/paste the folders you have changed because skel will overwrite your settings. Get them back later with meld. Super easy and fast.Changing between Polybar and...

After the building of ArcoLinuxB-Xmonad-Minimal to help someone out on Discord we install it to see if the build is ok. You can build your own ISO in ArcoLinux and all this information is on : https://arcolinuxb.com We use the opportunity to show the following things...

If and when updates of haskell or Xmonad come in....Recompile Xmonad after installation - do not reboot before recompiling.xmonad --recompileorSuper + Shift + RIF you did not recompile Xmonad after updates of haskell then you can not login into Xmonad since the...

You can set the applications to appear on a fixed workspace.For example all browsers come on workspace 1, all editors come on workspace 2, ...You can set this in the xmonad.hs file.There are 4 things to check/remember.use the correct workspace name (icon, 1, I, web,...

We go over the many (but not all) possibilities in Xmonad.Super + space will change the layout in XmonadAlt + Tab and Super + Tab will change the workspaceSuper + Shift + space will set the layout back to default after a super + spaceCtrl + Shift + t will put a...

Any tiling window manager works mainly with keyboard shortcuts.We make sure that keyboard shortcuts from Xfce, Openbox and i3 are also present on Xmonad, Bspwm, Awesome, ...You can easily change the application launched with a shortcut.The message is clear : Read and...

We can do several things related with the mouse.With Super + left key mouse press you can make a window become floating  and move it where you want.You resize the window with Super + right mouse click.If you want to tile a floating window, you press Ctrl + Shift + t.

We are going to take a look at other possibilities for the menu we see in the polybar.You see the images in above picture.numberRoman numbersjust textWe show you in the video how easy it is to change that.We even create a new menu.And here is its code.myWorkspaces =...

The icons, we use, are part of the awesome font. You need to remember to google "cheatsheet awesome".https://fontawesome.com/cheatsheetWe navigate to this website and we are copy/pasting an icon from this website and we will show you a neat trick to find out the...

Changing the border width. We give a few examples in the video how it will look.Find the code "myBorderWidth" and change the number, save it and reload Xmonad with ALT + R.

In xmonad.hs we can change the border colors.The video includes a super tip.IF THERE ARE UPDATES FROM HASKELL, always rebuild Xmonad immediately with Super + Shift + R.If you have no colors, no syntax or no minimap to the right, check out this video first.There are...

Before we get into the details of xmonad.hs it is a good thing to first setup your workflow as in this article.Then we analyze the parts of the file only to discover that the actual application is at the very bottom.All the rest is importing modules and defining...

CTRL + ALT + O We have created a shortcut to quickly toggle compton on and off. At some point in time you would like to do that. We take a look at the script, that will toggle compton on and off and show for the first time where in xmonad.hs  the keyboard shortcut is....

two major documents to configureXmonad has actually just one document where all the settings are : xmonad.hs The other one is connected to Xmonad but it is not from Xmonad. scripts/autostart.sh Autostart.shResolutionFind out the names of your screen/monitor with...

General infoXmonad is a tiling window manager and it is coming from here. You can get more information on the Arch Wiki. The conky is there to help you learn the keyboard shortcuts, when you first boot into Xmonad. Conkies in tiling window managers are not required...

ArcoLinuxD or ArcoLinuxBIt does not matter whether you are using ArcoLinuxD or ArcoLinuxB.In the next video's you will see that I will work on an ArcoLinuxB-Xmonad ssd.ArcoLinuxD or ArcoLinuxB are essentially the same thing.The delivery system is just...