Tiling, Floating · Window Manager
xmonad
A dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows. XMonad makes work easier, by automating this. XMonad features Very stable, fast, small and simple. Tiny code base (~2000 lines of Haskell) Automatic window tiling and management First class keyboard…
Developed by
Spencer Janssen, Don Stewart, Jason Creighton, contributors
Spencer Janssen, Don Stewart, Jason Creighton, contributors
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About xmonad
A dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell.
In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows. XMonad makes work easier, by automating this.
XMonad features
- Very stable, fast, small and simple.
- Tiny code base (~2000 lines of Haskell)
- 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, tabbing and decorated windows
- Full support for GNOME and KDE utilities
- XRandR support to rotate, add or remove monitors
- Per-workspace layout algorithms
- Per-screens custom status bars
- Compositing support
- Powerful, stable customisation and on-the-fly reconfiguration
- Large extension library
- Excellent, extensive documentation
- Large, active development team, support and community
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Notable features
A purely functional tiling core whose configuration is compiled Haskell and extended through the large xmonad-contrib library.
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