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! > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE%3A-xmonad-0.9-is-now-available%21-tp26054027p26056217.html Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe