alt+shift+ENTER: opens terminal
alt+SPACE: change layout
alt+K, alt+J: change window focus
alt+H, alt+L: decreases/increases border size between windows
alt+shift+C: close focused window
alt+ENTER: move focused window to the master pane on the left
alt+shift+Q: log out
alt+Q: reload xmonad configurations
If you're using suckless-tools, alt+p shows a bar where you can load whichever program is installed.
###Installation on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install xmonad suckless-tools
To load it, choose xmonad as your window manager on your XDM or GDM login screen.
###Change keyboard layout using `setxkbmap
In this example, I'm using an abnt2 keyboard - "português BR"
$setxkbmap -model abnt2 -layout br
###Change backgroung image using xloadimage
xloadimage -onroot -fullscreen <image-path>
###Adding volume keys
To add volume controlls on keyboard, we need to install xmonad-extras from Hackage running the following commands:
sudo apt-get install cabal-install
sudo cabal update
sudo cabal install xmonad-extras
cabal-install automates Haskell libraries installation, managing it`s dependencies.
To change xmonad configurations, we need to create the ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs file and add our custom configurations in it.
For a basic configuration template, see this link.
Now, to set the volume keys, we can follow dmwits' steps summarized bellow:
import XMonad
import XMonad.Actions.Volume
import Data.Map (fromList)
import Data.Monoid (mappend)
main = xmonad defaultConfig { keys =
keys defaultConfig `mappend`
\c -> fromList [
((0, xK_F6), lowerVolume 4 >> return ()),
((0, xK_F7), raiseVolume 4 >> return ())
]
}
The code above configures F6 and F7 keys to lower and raise volume by 4 units.
###Running scripts on start up (Ubuntu Gnome)
If you want to add some scripts (like that I used to set background and keyboard layout), you can run gnome-session-properties
and add it there. Those scripts will run whenever a user logs in.