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be shared across architectures * New flags: --version: print xmonad's version --recompile: recompile xmonad.hs if it is out of date --force-recompile: recompile xmonad.hs unconditionally * Improved ManageDocks extension used for docking programs * Improved documentation * Update to Haskell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!