xmonad

      a tiling window manager

about

Xmonad is a tiling window manager for X. Windows are arranged automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap, maximising screen use. All features of the window manager are accessible from the keyboard: a mouse is strictly optional. Xmonad is written and extensible in Haskell. Custom layout algorithms, and other extensions, may be written by the user in config files. Layouts are applied dynamically, and different layouts may be used on each workspace. Xinerama is fully supported, allowing windows to be tiled on several screens. A guiding principle of the design is predictability: users should know in advance precisely the window arrangement that will result from any action, leading to a simpler user interface. Read more.

features

Automatic window tiling and management First class keyboard support: a mouse is unnecessary Full multihead/Xinerama support XRandR support to rotate, add or remove monitors Per-workspace layout algorithms Per-screen status bars Dynamic restart preserving workspace state Tiny code base (~500 lines of Haskell) Fast, small and simple. Easy, powerful customisation

download

stable

• xmonad 0.2 (May 2007).

source

• darcs get --partial http://darcs.haskell.org/~sjanssen/xmonad

Xmonad uses a Cabal build system. For dependencies and build instructions, consult the README.

screenshots

(Clockwise from top-left) Screenshots of tall mode, fibonacci spiral tiling with a dzen statusbar, an example of X compositing for window shadows, a three-head Xinerama setup, using gimp with mosaic tiling, and wide mode with dzen as a status bar.

extensions

A good number of contributed extensions are available for Xmonad, implementing unusual layout algorithms, window manipulation operations and menu functions. Extensions are available from the contrib repository. New extensions should be contributed as patches to this package.

documentation Documentation on using and extending xmonad: man page and key bindings guided tour of features installation and configuration FAQ Found a bug? Please report it! wikipedia entry configuration file xmonad internals: StackSet and QuickCheck xmonad internals: The zipper type blogs and articles about Xmonad. related work and useful tools Software that works nicely with tiling dzen, an extensible status bar rxvt-unicode, a better terminal vimperator, vim ui for firefox unclutter, hide the mouse cursor gapcalc, calculate height of an X font Related projects dwm ion

community Join the xmonad developer and user community: the Xmonad mailing list mailing list archives gmane archives IRC on #xmonad at chat.freenode.org. xmonad tshirts developers Xmonad is developed by: Spencer Janssen Don Stewart Jason Creighton

news

• 2007-08 xmonad will be presented at the Haskell Workshop, in Freiburg, Germany.
  There is an overview of the presentation.
• 2007-08 Simon Peyton-Jones used xmonad as his example program for the
  Taste of Haskell tutorial at OSCON. You can watch the part 1 and part 2, or read the slides.
• 2007-07 cjb mentioned that xmonad runs on the OLPC laptop!
• 2007-06 dons added an extensible logging framework.
• 2007-06 jcreigh added floating layer support.
• 2007-06 dons blogged about xmonad development methods
• 2007-05 Xmonad 0.2 released! Download it, and dependencies, from Hackage.
• 2007-05 dons added pop-up statusbar support. Status bars may appear on any side of any screen.
• 2007-05 sjanssen added XRandR support for xmonad, allowing screens to be rotated or added.
• 2007-05 New contributed extensions are available, including mosaic tiling and fibonacci spiral tiling.
• 2007-04 Xmonad now has a wikipedia entry.
• 2007-04 Small OSNews article about xmonad.
• 2007-04 Xmonad 0.1 released! Download it, and dependencies, from Hackage.
• 2007-04 A mailing list for tracking Xmonad development and discussion has been created.
• 2007-03 Lennart Kolmodin blogged about Xmonad.
• 2007-03 sjanssen is working on XCB bindings for Haskell for the Google SoC.
• 2007-03 Xmonad development begins.