Xmonad 0.10 was released

Installation: After you've gotten ghci and cabal from your favourite package manager, just do:<p>&#62; sudo cabal install xmonad xmonad-contrib<p>Then you can get dmenu or dzen for a small menu and trayer for a small system tray.<p>Then use a premade config file from here: <a href="http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive" rel="nofollow">http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive</a> and mess around with it.<p>To learn the keybindings, print this out or make it your wallpaper: <a href="http://xmonad.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/xmonad-cheatsheet/" rel="nofollow">http://xmonad.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/xmonad-cheatsheet/</a><p>For them ubuntu users, if oneiric broke a lot of things you can follow this: <a href="http://markhansen.co.nz/xmonad-ubuntu-oneiric/" rel="nofollow">http://markhansen.co.nz/xmonad-ubuntu-oneiric/</a> That should allow you to select an xmonad session as opposed to a unity one during login.<p>As a general rule you can simply use xmonad as your window manager and just launch gnome-settings-daemon (or was it gnome-config-daemon?) to get all the theming, font antialiasing, etc. If you run nm-applet manually, that should launch the networking stuff (if it didn't already). I haven't tried using xmonad with the ubuntu panel and stuff, so I don't know about that.<p>Edit: I use this one: <a href="https://github.com/vicfryzel/xmonad-config" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/vicfryzel/xmonad-config</a><p>It works great with multiple monitors, alt+w and alt+e move focus between monitors, and then I can swap which workspace is in which monitor really easily to move things around.

I'm also using XMonad on Arch Linux. I found it hard to setup correctly, but once it is, it's a real productivity booster. Firing up another terminal (Meta-Shift-Enter) and not worrying about it's position is a time saver.<p>If you want to try it out, I can help you by reducing the time needed to set it up. My dotfiles are here: <a href="https://github.com/wunki/wunki-dotfiles" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/wunki/wunki-dotfiles</a><p>Best nuggets for your setup can be found in xmonad.hs, xinitrc and Xdefaults files.

Is there an official announcement somewhere? The Xmonad blog seems dead, and the twitter account is not in a better state. It's a pitty because it gives the impression that the project is not actively developed.

If you use Xmonad with GNOME 2/3 or Xfce, this panel applet/plugin can be handy: <a href="https://github.com/alexkay/xmonad-log-applet" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/alexkay/xmonad-log-applet</a><p>(disclaimer: I'm the current maintainer)

I'm still sad that ion3 is getting so little love these days.<p>It's easily the most advanced of the tiling wm crop, and by a long shot. Just some bullets:<p>- Floating/tiled can co-exist on same workspace (just attach/detach as needed), can also trivially set filters to have e.g. all dialogs and "all gimp-windows" float automatically.<p>- The tabbed frames metaphor is infinitely superior to the "one window per frame" metaphor that everyone else is stuck with.<p>- All configuration and extension is lua. It's an absolute joy to work with.<p>- Mouse works as expected. Just drag frames to resize the grid, drag titlebars to move windows into other frames, etc.<p>Up to this day I don't understand how people put up with the obscure limitations of the other tiling wm's (foremost: the one window per frame constraint, forced set of layouts that never work quite right, etc. etc.)...

My macbook died recently and I switched back to ubuntu for the week, first thing I did was install xmonad, its a really awesome environment to work within.<p>I do wish it played nicer with other window environment, some applications just dont work inside a modal interface and when they dont I just want my normal windows with title bar and buttons back<p>I havent installed it on my mac now its repaired, the fact I dont be able to use my normal mac apps kinda put me off, but I may give it another shot, if there was a way to have xmonad like behaviour with mac applications while preserving floating windows I would be in heaven (divvy etc most certainly do not count)<p>Its probably worth mentioning that despite following several tutorials, getting xmonad installed on 11.04 was a nightmare that left plain ubuntu pretty broken, I would like to see that process improved as well

xmonad is uber-wonderful but a good beginner documentation would be really awesome.<p>I would like to have, on the official site, a list of distro, and for each, a tutorial that have been <i>tested and works</i>. Instead, one needs to hunt for blog post that are either incomplete or not applicable.<p>The latest Ubuntu upgrade was really a nightmare in this respect. had to mix xfce + xmonad but my setup is far from optimal...

Scrotwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration. It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and fast.<p>It was largely inspired by xmonad and dwm. Both are fine products but suffer from things like: crazy-unportable-language-syndrome, silly defaults, asymmetrical window layout, "how hard can it be?" and good old NIH. Nevertheless dwm was a phenomenal resource and many good ideas and code was borrowed from it. On the other hand xmonad has great defaults, key bindings and xinerama support but is crippled by not being written in C.

Is there a compelling reason for somebody already using Awesome WM to look into Xmonad? Seems like I'm hearing about it more often these days.

been using xmonad for a couple of years. config is so minimal that it makes it vey simple to replicate the exact same environment on all my machines (laptops and desktops), with no ties to the underlying linux distribution.

Anybody have a link to some good screenshots of Xmonad 0.10?

I wish I could replace my osx window manager by xmonad =_)

I'll go tell my coworker. He's the <i>one industry programmer who gives a shit about Haskell</i>.