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

    xmonad requires a recent version of Cabal, >= 1.2.0. If you're using
    GHC 6.8, then it comes bundled with the right version. If you're
    using GHC 6.6.x, you'll need to build and install Cabal from hackage
    first:

          http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Cabal

    You can check which version you have with the command:

        $ ghc-pkg list Cabal
        Cabal-1.2.2.0

    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