XMonad Tips

Note that the <super> key is usually Win or Alt, to the left of the space bar.

• Press <Super>-Shift-Enter to open the terminal
• Press <Super>-p to launch dmenu (application launcher)
• Layouts
  • ThreeCol (useful for wider screens)

  myThreeCol =
    ThreeColMid
      1 -- Master window count
      (3 / 100) -- Resize delta
      (1 / 2) -- Initial column size

  • Tabbed (useful when managing related windows one at a time)
• <Super>-h/l - resize active window
• <Super>-j/k - switch focus to left/right window
• <Super>-w/e - switch focus to other monitor
• More keybindings here (poster-friendly)
• Ideas for keybindings
  • Screenshot mouse-selected region to clipboard

  # In NixOS, add this to your packages list:
  pkgs.writeScriptBin "screenshot"
    '' 
    #!${pkgs.runtimeShell}
    ${pkgs.maim}/bin/maim -s | ${pkgs.xclip}/bin/xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png
    '';

• Integrations
  • If you are using Pass with GPG, passmenu can be invoked from dmenu (see above) to get autocompletion in passwords.