ANNOUNCE: xmonad 0.3

The xmonad dev team is pleased to announce the 0.3 release of xmonad. xmonad: a tiling window manager http://xmonad.org About: xmonad is a tiling window manager for X. Windows are arranged automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap, maximising screen use. All features of the window manager are accessible from the keyboard: a mouse is strictly optional. xmonad is written and extensible in Haskell. Custom layout algorithms, 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 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 * Large extension library * Extensive documentation and support for hacking Since xmonad 0.2, the following notable features and bug fixes have appeared: New features: * floating layer support: transients windows are not tiled by default, and windows may be dragged to and from a traditional floating layer (which allows mouse-resizing, and overlapping windows). * improved Xinerama support: workspace switching reuses multiple displays more effectively. * huge new extension library. Over 50 extensions to xmonad have been contributed by users, and are available all in a standard library, with documentation. More information, screenshots, documentation and community resources are available from: http://xmonad.org Xmonad is available from hackage, and via darcs. Happy hacking! The Xmonad Team: Spencer Janssen Don Stewart Jason Creighton Xmonad has also received contributions from at least: Alec Berryman Andrea Rossato Chris Mears Daniel Wagner David Glasser David Lazar David Roundy Hans Philipp Annen Joachim Fasting Joe Thornber Kai Grossjohann Karsten Schoelzel Michael Sloan Miikka Koskinen Neil Mitchell Nelson Elhage Nick Burlett Peter De Wachter Robert Marlow Sam Hughes Shachaf Ben-Kiki Shae Erisson Simon Peyton Jones Stefan O'Rear as well as many others on the IRC channel and mailing list. Thanks to everyone!

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 13:02 +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
The xmonad dev team is pleased to announce the 0.3 release of xmonad.
I just wanted to congratulate the team, and say that xmonad is, along with darcs, my favorite "mainstream" Haskell program. I used to spend days experimenting with different window managers and applets, docks and whatnot; now I get so much more time to do more important stuff - like spamming technical mailing lists with non-technical content. But I digress. Nice work! -k

Looks really nice, but if I understand it correctly it is specific for X, so does not work on Windows? If so, would it be possible to integrate this into GTK2HS so it works as a docking manager inside an application?

2007/9/5, Peter Verswyvelen
Looks really nice, but if I understand it correctly it is specific for X, so does not work on Windows? This kind of programs is impossible in Windows. Of cause you can use X server for Windows and xmonad as window manager with X server.
If so, would it be possible to integrate this into GTK2HS so it works as a docking manager inside an application? First of all, gtk is a cross platform toolkit and gtk2hs is just a wrapper. It will be better to implement a docking manager in C to let whole gtk community use it.
-- WBR, Max Vasin JID: maxvasin@jabber.ru

Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 06.09.2007, 08:24 +0400 schrieb Max Vasin:
2007/9/5, Peter Verswyvelen
: If so, would it be possible to integrate this into GTK2HS so it works as a docking manager inside an application? First of all, gtk is a cross platform toolkit and gtk2hs is just a wrapper. It will be better to implement a docking manager in C to let whole gtk community use it.
Or to extend gtk2hs so that it can be used to implement gtk widgets that can be used by C programs (and via bindings, others as well) :-) Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner mail: mail@joachim-breitner.de | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Key: 4743206C JID: joachimbreitner@amessage.de | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org

On 9/5/07, Max Vasin
2007/9/5, Peter Verswyvelen
: Looks really nice, but if I understand it correctly it is specific for X, so does not work on Windows? This kind of programs is impossible in Windows. Of cause you can use X server for Windows and xmonad as window manager with X server.
That depends on your definition of "this kind". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiteStep -- Dan

That depends on your definition of "this kind". I meant "window manager". I.e. a porgram which manages window size,
2007/9/7, Dan Piponi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiteStep This is a shell (a replacement for explorer), not a window manager. In Windows there is no such thing as window manager (it's functionality is built-in into Windows itself).
-- WBR, Max Vasin JID: maxvasin@jabber.ru
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Dan Piponi
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dons@cse.unsw.edu.au
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Joachim Breitner
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Ketil Malde
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Max Vasin
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Peter Verswyvelen