The xmonad dev team is pleased to announce the 0.4 release of xmonad!
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 Haskell, in config files. Window layouts
are applied dynamically, and different layouts may be used on each
workspace. Xinerama is fully supported, allowing windows to be tiled
across several physical screens.
Features:
* Simple, intuitive user interface
* Stable, fast and small memory footprint
* Automatic window tiling and management
* First class keyboard support: a mouse is unnecessary
* Full support for tiling windows on multi-head displays
* Full support for floating windows
* XRandR support to rotate, add or remove monitors dynamically
* Per-workspace layout algorithms
* Per-screens custom status bars
* Easy, powerful customisation and reconfiguration
* Large extension library
* Extensive documentation and support for hacking
This is a big release, with every feature we originally proposed for
xmonad implemented. Since xmonad 0.3, the following notable improvments
have appeared:
* Powerful "rules" system: config files may specify rules about how
particular applications are handled. For example, gimp might
always be placed in the floating layer, or firefox always placed
on workspace 2. Gnome dock apps (such as kicker or gnome-panel)
might always be placed in a status bar gap and unmanaged.
* User-specified workspace tag types (not restricted to numeric
keys). E.g. "web" or "www" are valid workspace tags now.
* Layouts algorithms serialisable. Current workspace state preserved across
restarts/reconfiguration, including user-written modules' state
* User written code sandboxed from the core applicuation further,
making it safer to experiment with new extensions
* 100% code coverage of logic core of xmonad by its testsuite,
thanks to QuickCheck and HPC.
* More hooks to make writing expressive extensions easier
* mod-m to shift focus to the `master' window
* many new binary distributions, for various flavours of Linux and
BSD, OSX is also well supported.
* extensions:
xmonad comes with a huge library of extensions (3 times the size of
xmonad itself), contributed by viewers like you. Extensions enable
pretty much arbitrary window manager behaviour to be implemented by
users, in Haskell, in the config files. For more information on using
and writing extensions, see the webpage.
Get it!
More information, screenshots, documentation, tutorials and community
resources are available from the xmonad home page:
http://xmonad.org
The 0.4 release, and its dependencies, are available from
hackage.haskell.org, here:
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmonad
Brought to you by the xmonad team:
Spencer Janssen
Don Stewart
Jason Creighton
Andrea Rossato
David Roundy
with code contributions from:
Brandon Allbery Chris Mears
Shachaf Ben-Kiki Eric Mertens
Alec Berryman Neil Mitchell
Gwern Branwen Devin Mullins
Joachim Breitner Daniel Neri
Alexandre Buisse Stefan O'Rear
Nick Burlett Simon Peyton Jones
Peter De Wachter Hans Philipp Annen
Aaron Denney Karsten Schoelzel
Nelson Elhage Michael Sloan
Shae Erisson Ivan Tarasov
Joachim Fasting Alex Tarkovsky
Michael Fellinger Christian Thiemann
David Glasser Joe Thornber
Kai Grossjohann Matsuyama Tomohiro
Dave Harrison Daniel Wagner
Juraj Hercek Ferenc Wagner
Sam Hughes Jamie Webb
Miikka Koskinen Brent Yorgey
David Lazar nornagon
Lucas Mai timthelion
Robert Marlow Klaus Weidner
As well as the support of a cast of hundreds on the #xmonad and #haskell
IRC channels, and the wider Haskell, FP and window manager communities.
Thanks to everyone for their support!
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