xmonad: A tiling window manager

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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.


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Versions [RSS] 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.4.1, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.8.1, 0.9, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.10, 0.11, 0.11.1, 0.12, 0.13, 0.14, 0.14.1, 0.14.2, 0.15, 0.17.0, 0.17.1, 0.17.2, 0.18.0 (info)
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Dependencies base (>=4.11 && <5), containers, data-default-class, directory, filepath, mtl, process, setlocale, time, transformers (>=0.3), unix, X11 (>=1.10 && <1.11), xmonad [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Author Spencer Janssen, Don Stewart, Adam Vogt, David Roundy, Jason Creighton, Brent Yorgey, Peter Jones, Peter Simons, Andrea Rossato, Devin Mullins, Lukas Mai, Alec Berryman, Stefan O'Rear, Daniel Wagner, Peter J. Jones, Daniel Schoepe, Karsten Schoelzel, Neil Mitchell, Joachim Breitner, Peter De Wachter, Eric Mertens, Geoff Reedy, Michiel Derhaeg, Philipp Balzarek, Valery V. Vorotyntsev, Alex Tarkovsky, Fabian Beuke, Felix Hirn, Michael Sloan, Tomas Janousek, Vanessa McHale, Nicolas Pouillard, Aaron Denney, Austin Seipp, Benno Fünfstück, Brandon S Allbery, Chris Mears, Christian Thiemann, Clint Adams, Daniel Neri, David Lazar, Ferenc Wagner, Francesco Ariis, Gábor Lipták, Ivan N. Veselov, Ivan Tarasov, Javran Cheng, Jens Petersen, Joey Hess, Jonne Ransijn, Josh Holland, Khudyakov Alexey, Klaus Weidner, Michael G. Sloan, Mikkel Christiansen, Nicolas Dudebout, Ondřej Súkup, Paul Hebble, Shachaf Ben-Kiki, Siim Põder, Tim McIver, Trevor Elliott, Wouter Swierstra, Conrad Irwin, Tim Thelion, Tony Zorman
Maintainer xmonad@haskell.org
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Home page http://xmonad.org
Bug tracker https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/issues
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad
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Distributions Arch:0.18.0, Debian:0.15, Fedora:0.17.2, FreeBSD:0.11.1, LTSHaskell:0.17.2, NixOS:0.17.2, Stackage:0.18.0, openSUSE:0.18.0
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xmonad

A tiling window manager for X11.

XMonad is a tiling window manager for X11. 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.

This repository contains the xmonad package, a minimal, stable, yet extensible core. It is accompanied by xmonad-contrib, a library of hundreds of additional community-maintained tiling algorithms and extension modules. The two combined make for a powerful X11 window-manager with endless customization possibilities. They are, quite literally, libraries for creating your own window manager.

Installation

For installation and configuration instructions, please see:

If you run into any trouble, consult our documentation or ask the community for help.

Contributing

We welcome all forms of contributions:

Please do read the CONTRIBUTING document for more information about bug reporting and code contributions. For a brief overview of the architecture and code conventions, see the documentation for the XMonad.Doc.Developing module. If in doubt, talk to us.

Authors

Started in 2007 by Spencer Janssen, Don Stewart and Jason Creighton, the XMonad project lives on thanks to new generations of maintainers and dozens of contributors.