A custom xmonad configuration with clickable workspaces and easy naviagation, packed with tons of pre-installed packages for Arch Linux.

Notes: Some files may have configurations for packages not included in this setup. Generally these will not cause problems or decrease the performance of xmonad, but if the extra lines of code bother you, feel free to remove them if you like.

This configuration is designed for laptops with a 1366x768 display resolution. You may need to adjust some settings in config files for desktop setups with 1920x1080 displays or other resolutions.

Contents

• Requirements
• Installation
• List of Packages
• Troueshooting

Requirements

git

pacman -S git

• Verify: git --version

yay

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git && cd yay

pacman -S base-devel

makepkg -si

Installation

Download

git clone https://github.com/AnapalOne/xmonad-packed && cd xmonad-packed

a) Applying a specific config file to your existing xmonad/program

• If you want to only apply the xmonad config to your xmonad, simply copy xmonad.hs to ~/.xmonad/
• If you want to only apply xmobar, copy xmobar.hs to ~/.xmobarrc
  • In this case, you will need to add some adjustments to your xmonad.hs [myLogHook] in order for this xmobar to work. Details found here.
• If you want to apply my configs to your programs, copy your selected config file (see files and configs) and apply it to its respective directory.

or b) Installing this config and packages from base Arch Linux/existing window manager

chmod +x ./setup.sh

./setup.sh

reboot

Display manager / xinit

• use xinit to automatically start xmonad or a display manager to cycle between window managers.
  • Read the wiki for more details: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/xmonad#Starting

And you're done! You may edit any of these configs to your liking.

List of packages

Packages	Description
alacritty	terminal emulator
p7zip	archiving and compression
xmobar	status bar
picom-jonaburg-git	compositor
libreoffice	office suite
xf86-input-libinput, libinput-gestures	input device handler, touchscreen, touchpad drivers
pulseaudio	audio manager
pamixer	volume control w/ gui
youtube-dl	youtube video/audio downloader
ttf-iosevka[regular,aile,curly], ttf-bitstream-vera, ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-mono, ttf-font	fonts
xdotool	input emulator
htop	program manager
ncdu	disk usage analyzer
ranger, nemo	file manager
iwctl	internet manager
yay	AUR helper
subl, nano, vim	text editors
xprop	shows information about a window
flameshot	capture screen
tlp, tlpui	battery manager
nitrogen	wallpaper manager
firefox	browser
krita	drawing software
gimp	image editor/drawing software
mpv, vlc	video software
audacity	audio software
mirage	image viewer
spotify, cmus	music
discord	text and voice app
github-desktop	github desktop

See setup.sh for the full list of packages that will be installed.

Troubleshooting

Some programs not found

• Packages may not install properly, so be sure to check and reinstall it after booting into xmonad.

picom not working

• Try disabling vsync by changing the setting in ~/.config/picom/picom.conf.
• An error may occur as a result of your graphical drivers not working/compatible with picom, so try installing Intel, NVIDIA, or other drivers depending on your GPU.
• picom will not work with VirtualBox, causing a sort of HOM effect.
  • To fix this, open the terminal with Super + Shift + Enter and type killall picom (note that you won't see any activity, so you might have do it blindly). As a result, there will be no compositor running but xmonad can be used without it.

pacman

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pacman -Syu