[xmonad] Debian Packages, Was: ANNOUNCE: xmonad 0.6 released
Joachim Breitner
nomeata at debian.org
Mon Jan 28 19:29:50 EST 2008
Hi,
The Debian maintainer is pleased to announce the 0.6 packages for xmonad!
http://people.debian.org/~nomeata/xmonad/
The Debian packages consist of a precompiled xmonad binary, as well as
the xmonad core and contribution libraries with documentation.
Features:
* Integrates nicely into your Package system
* Clean installation and removal.
* Someone to bug about problems
Get it!
:-)
Greetings,
Joachim
PS: Upload to the Debian archive is still depending on the updated
haskell-x11. As soon as I get some positive feedback about these
packages, I will do the update myself and then upload xmonad to the
archive.
Am Sonntag, den 27.01.2008, 15:36 -0800 schrieb Don Stewart:
> The xmonad dev team is pleased to announce the 0.6 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 extensible in Haskell, allowing for
> powerful customisation. 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.
>
> 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 windows
> * XRandR support to rotate, add or remove monitors
> * Per-workspace layout algorithms
> * Per-screens custom status bars
> * Easy, powerful customisation and reconfiguration in Haskell
> * Large extension library
> * Extensive documentation and support for hacking
>
> Get it!
>
> Information, screenshots, documentation, tutorials and community
> resources are available from the xmonad home page:
>
> http://xmonad.org
>
> The 0.6 release, and its dependencies, are available from
> hackage.haskell.org, here:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmonad
>
> Headlines:
>
> This is an incremental release of xmonad, with some new features, and
> important bug fixes.
>
> * Make focus-follows-mouse configurable
> * Better support for X11 cloned screens
> * xmonad config dirs can now be shared across architectures
> * New flags:
>
> --version: print xmonad's version
> --recompile: recompile xmonad.hs if it is out of date
> --force-recompile: recompile xmonad.hs unconditionally
>
> * Improved ManageDocks extension used for docking programs
> * Improved documentation
> * Update to Haskell X11-1.4.1, fixes bug with XGetWindowProperty
> * Close bug #96 relating to window unmapping (fixes gnucash bugs)
> * 'Testing' mode for developers
> * Various other fixes and clean ups.
>
> Along with many improvements to the extension library. Here are some of
> the noticeable changes to the extension library:
>
> * New: XMonad.Hooks.ManageHelpers : support for hooks
> * New: XMonad.Util.Search : support for web searching
> * New: XMonad.Util.Timer : set up timers and to handle them
> * New: XMonad.Layout.Reflect : reflect layouts horizontally/vertically
> * New: XMonad.Actions.NoBorders
> * Improved EDSL for performing actions on windows
> * Improved window tabbing
> * ResizableTile works with floating windows
> * Faster prompts
> * More EWHM support
> * Add support for cycling through screens to CycleWS
> * UrgencyHook support to status bar
> * Custom zoom levels for magnifier layout
> * Bug fixes to ManageDocks
> * Support for _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL
> * Improved docs for writing new extensions
>
> Full changelogs against xmonad 0.5 for the core and extensions here:
>
> http://xmonad.org/changelog-0.6.txt
> http://xmonad.org/changelog-xmc-0.6.txt
>
> Extensions:
>
> xmonad comes with a huge library of extensions (now more than 5
> times the size of xmonad), 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.
> The library of extensions is available from hackage:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmonad-contrib
>
> Full documentation for using and writing your own extensions:
>
> http://xmonad.org/contrib.html
>
> This release brought to you by the xmonad dev team:
>
> Spencer Janssen
> Don Stewart
> Jason Creighton
> Andrea Rossato
> David Roundy
> Brent Yorgey
>
> Featuring code contributions from:
>
> Aaron Denney Adam Vogt
> Alec Berryman Alex Tarkovsky
> Alexandre Buisse Austin Seipp
> Brandon Allbery Chris Mears
> Christian Thiemann Clemens Fruhwirth
> Daniel Neri Daniel Wagner
> Dave Harrison David Glasser
> David Lazar Devin Mullins
> Dmitry Kurochkin Dougal Stanton
> Eric Mertens Ferenc Wagner
> Gwern Branwen Hans Philipp Annen
> Ivan Tarasov Jamie Webb
> Jeremy Apthorp Joachim Breitner
> Joachim Fasting Joe Thornber
> Joel Suovaniemi Juraj Hercek
> Kai Grossjohann Karsten Schoelzel
> Klaus Weidner Lucas Mai
> Mats Jansborg Matsuyama Tomohiro
> Michael Fellinger Michael Sloan
> Miikka Koskinen Neil Mitchell
> Nelson Elhage Nick Burlett
> Nicolas Pouillard Peter De Wachter
> Robert Marlow Roman Cheplyaka
> Sam Hughes Shachaf Ben-Kiki
> Shae Erisson Simon Peyton Jones
> Stefan O'Rear Valery V. Vorotyntsev
> timthelion "intrigeri"
>
> 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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Joachim "nomeata" Breitner
Debian Developer
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