xmonad VS Arch-Linux-xmonad-setup-guide

And here is my Xmonad configuration

xmonad

Here is another tiling wm with screenshots: https://xmonad.org/

xmonad https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad

As far as wms go, I always liked fluxbox and xmonad. Openbox has its fans, and i3 is very popular. I prefer a de over a wm but I know a lot of people use i3.

How are you installing the xmonad code that you try to build? Have you cloned https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad and https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib into your ~/.xmonad directory, and then running stack init?

You can install xmonad 0.17 from source. There's a few ways of doing that, check the installation guide, most are quite straightforward.

I had little success with manual splits because I was busy resizing most of the time. Therefore the idea with windows that are always as big as their content. The code for the windows is already built so that the logic per tab is interchangeable, how the windows should behave. You just have to implement more layouts, as I call them. The concept comes from Xmonad. In this link you can see examples when you scroll down to "Layouts": https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib

Symlinking, creating xsession file, some additional steps for functional 'desktop' - your guide.