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xmonad : a lightweight X11 window manager.
http://xmonad.org
xmonad is a tiling window manager for X. Windows are arranged
automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap, maximising
screen use. Window manager features are accessible from
the keyboard: a mouse is optional. xmonad is written, configured and
extensible in Haskell. Custom layout algorithms, key bindings 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 physical screens.
Building:
Get the dependencies
You first need a Haskell compiler. Your distribution's package
system will have binaries of GHC (the Glasgow Haskell Compiler), the
system we use, so install that. If your distro doesn't provide a
binary, you can find them here:
http://haskell.org/ghc
For example, in Debian you would install GHC with:
apt-get install ghc6
Since you're building an X application, you'll need the C X11
library headers. On many platforms, these come pre-installed. For
others, such as Debian, you can get them from your package manager:
apt-get install libx11-dev
Finally, you need the Haskell libraries xmonad depends on. Since
you've a working GHC installation now, most of these will be
provided. To check whether you've got a package run 'ghc-pkg list
some_package_name'. You will need the following packages:
mtl http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/mtl-1.0
unix http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/unix-2.0
X11 http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11-1.3.0
And then build xmonad with Cabal as follows (the same goes for the other
Haskell libraries):
runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --user --prefix=$HOME
runhaskell Setup.lhs build
runhaskell Setup.lhs install --user
And you're done.
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Notes for using the darcs version
If you're building the darcs version of xmonad, be sure to also
use the darcs version of the X11 library, which is developed
concurrently with xmonad.
darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/X11
Not using X11 from darcs is the most common reason for the
darcs version of xmonad to fail to build.
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Running xmonad:
Add:
$HOME/bin/xmonad
to the last line of your .xsession or .xinitrc file.
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XMonadContrib
There are various contributed modules that can be used with xmonad.
Examples include an ion3-like tabbed layout, a prompt/program launcher,
and various other useful modules. XMonadContrib is available at:
0.4 release: http://www.xmonad.org/XMonadContrib-0.4.tar.gz
darcs version: darcs get http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib
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Other useful programs:
For a program dispatch menu:
dmenu http://www.suckless.org/download/
or
gmrun (in your package system)
For custom status bars:
dzen http://gotmor.googlepages.com/dzen
A nicer xterm replacment, that supports resizing better:
urxvt http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html
Authors:
Spencer Janssen
Don Stewart
Jason Creighton
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