[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: xmonad 0.9 is now available!

zaxis z_axis at 163.com
Mon Oct 26 04:56:34 EDT 2009


xmonad is great WM i have ever seen. I have used it for a long time.
However, i donot know whether or not it is a *good* combination to use
xmonad and lxpanel together insead of dzen .


Don Stewart-2 wrote:
> 
> 
>                            http://xmonad.org
> 
> The xmonad dev team is pleased to announce xmonad 0.9!
> We think this is a great release.
> 
> The headlines:
> 
>     * Actions.SpawnOn: Windows go to the workspace they were launched
>           on, even if you're no longer viewing that workspace.  Especially
>           handy for slow-launching applications like Firefox
>     * Actions.GridSelect: graphically go to, select, do things with
>           windows, workspaces, prompts ... 
>     * Many new window layouts: http://is.gd/4BzAI
>     * Many new scriptable actions: http://is.gd/4BzCN
>     * Focus changes across screens with mouse movement, no longer
>           requiring a click, even for empty workspaces. 
>     * Improved xmobar/dzen statusbar functions, easier to use, more
> compositional
>     * New --restart command line flag to restart a running xmonad process.
>     * Supports for multi-module local configuration files
>     * Support for user-defined X event handling 
>     * xmonad comes with 180 extensions for enhancing functionality
>     * Over 3000 commits have been made to the project.
> 
> Extensive change logs:
> 
>     http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Notable_changes_since_0.8
> 
> About:
> 
>     xmonad is a leading tiling window manager, known for its lightness,
>     reliability, extensibility and efficiency. It supports true
>     multiheaded tiling, and rich, rapid customisation. It is also highly
>     portable, running on regular desktops, laptops, netbooks, phones,
>     game consoles, the OLPC, and more.
> 
> Features:
> 
>    * Very stable, fast, small and simple.
>    * 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 reconfiguration
>    * Large extension library
>    * Excellent, extensive documentation
>    * Large, active development team, support and community
> 
> Get it!
> 
>     Information, screenshots, documentation, tutorials and community
>     resources are available from the xmonad home page:
> 
>         http://xmonad.org
> 
>     The 0.9 release, and its dependencies, are available from
>     hackage.haskell.org:
> 
>         http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad
> 
>     xmonad packages are available in pretty much every package system,
>     including.
> 
>         Debian, Gentoo, Arch, Ubuntu, OpenBSD,
>         NetBSD, FreeBSD, Gobo, NixOS, Source Mage, Slackware
> 
>     and 0.9 packages will appear in coming days (some are already
> available).
> 
>     On the fly updating to xmonad 0.9 is supported, without losing your
>     session!  You can even use cabal-install:
> 
>         $ cabal update
>         $ cabal install xmonad-0.9
>         $ cabal install xmonad-contrib-0.9
>         $ xmonad --recompile
>         mod-q
> 
> Extensions:
> 
>     xmonad comes with a huge library of extensions (now around 15
>     times the size of xmonad itself), contributed by viewers like you.
> 
>     Extensions allow for all sorts of functionality and enhancements to
>     the window manager, via Haskell in your config file. For more
>     information on using and writing extensions see the webpage.  The
>     library of extensions is available from hackage:
> 
>         http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/xmonad-contrib
> 
>     Full documentation for using and writing your own extensions:
> 
>         http://xmonad.org/documentation.html
> 
> This release brought to you by the xmonad dev team:
> 
>     Spencer Janssen          Don Stewart
>     Adam Vogt                Brent Yorgey
>     Daniel Wagner            Devin Mullins
>     Daniel Schoepe           Braden Shepherdson   
>     Nicolas Pouillard        Roman Cheplyaka
>     Gwern Branwen            Lukas Mai
> 
> Featuring code contributions from over 80 developers:
> 
>     Aaron Denney            Jason Creighton
>     Alec Berryman           Alex Tarkovsky
>     Alexandre Buisse        Andrea Rossato
>     Austin Seipp            Bas van Dijk
>     Ben Voui                Brandon Allbery
>     Chris Mears             Christian Thiemann
>     Clemens Fruhwirth       Daniel Neri
>     Anders Engstrom         Dave Harrison
>     David Glasser           David Lazar
>     Dmitry Kurochkin        Dominik Bruhn
>     Dougal Stanton          Eric Mertens
>     Ferenc Wagner           Jan Vornberger
>     Hans Philipp Annen      Ivan Tarasov
>     Ivan Veselov            Jamie Webb     
>     Jeremy Apthorp          Malebria
>     Joachim Breitner        Joachim Fasting
>     Joe Thornber            Joel Suovaniemi
>     Juraj Hercek            Justin Bogner
>     Kai Grossjohann         Karsten Schoelzel
>     Klaus Weidner           Mathias Stearn
>     Mats Jansborg           Matsuyama Tomohiro
>     Michael Fellinger       Michael Sloan
>     Miikka Koskinen         Neil Mitchell
>     Nelson Elhage           Nick Burlett
>     Quentin Moser           Nils Anders Danielsson
>     Peter De Wachter        Robert Marlow
>     Sam Hughes              Shachaf Ben-Kiki
>     Shae Erisson            Simon Peyton Jones
>     Stefan O'Rear           Tom Rauchenwald
>     Valery V. Vorotyntsev   Will Farrington 
>     Yaakov Nemoy            timthelion
>     Rickard Gustafson       Trevor Elliott
>     Ian Zerny               Ivan Miljenovic
>     Marco e Silva           Michal Janeczek
>     David Roundy            Wirt Wolff
>     Max Rabkin              Sean Escriva
>     Norbert Zeh             Alexey Khudyakov
>     Ismael Carnales         Luis Cabellos
>     Konstantin Sobolev      Dmitry Astapov 
>     Andres Salomon          Aleksandar Dimitrov
>     Ilya Portnov            Michal Trybus
>     Travis Hartwell
> 
> As well as the support of many others on the #xmonad and #haskell IRC
> channels, and the wider Haskell and window manager communities.
> 
> Thanks to everyone for their support!
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