Re: EXWM

[André A . Gomes]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> skribis:
>
>>>> I was involved in the packaging of exwm when it was first done, and I
>>>> hear your frustration. :-) Please do send patches (with me on Cc)
>>>> addressing the issue, and we can continue our discussion there.
>>>
>>> As someone who didn't have a prior EXWM setup in their .emacs, I have
>>> been enjoying the separate .exwm config file.
>>
>> Ah, I see. That may be good reason to not break this separation between
>> .emacs and .exwm.
>
> FWIW, I don’t have .exwm either; instead I have just a few lines of exwm
> config straight in ~/.emacs, which shouldn’t prevent it from running in
> the console or anything.

I'm afraid you're approaching the issue from the wrong angle.  Exwm is
smart than you think.  As of today, there are workarounds (.exwm) that
attempt to "solve" non-existent issues.

As for the fact the you, Ludovic, don't have a .exwm file and configure
Exwm from your emacs init file: are you aware that you're running a
default Exwm config?

M-x find-library RET exwm-config; and take a look at
exwm-config-example.  I find this extremely annoying, since it defeats
the purpose of having a personal Exwm config.  The only way to avoid
this is to create an empty .exwm file.

Again, sending a patch is trivial (I've been running my own Exwm for a
while now), but I need to convince you first :)


-- 
André A. Gomes
"Free Thought, Free World"