Quad head xmonad

xmonad on a quad headed display. Very cool. Courtesy @nickaugust

contribs review: ThreeColumnsMiddle, CenteredMaster, Mosaic

From now on we are going to announce new extensions from the xmonad-contrib library in this blog.
Here are the first contributions of 2009. Try them out!

ThreeColumnsMiddle

by Carsten Otto

A layout similar to Tall but with three columns, where the main window is in the middle. With 2560×1600 pixels this layout can be used for a huge main window and up to six reasonable sized slave windows.
Screenshot

CenteredMaster

by Ilya Portnov

CenteredMaster consists of two layout modifiers. centerMaster places one (master) window at center of screen, on top of other windows. All other windows are managed by base layout. For example, with

centerMaster Grid

one will get something like this screenshot.

topRight layout modifier is similar, but places master window in top right corner instead of center.

Mosaic

by Adam Vogt

A mosaic layout based on MosaicAlt. The position of a window in the stack determines its position and layout, and the overall tendency to make wide or tall windows can be changed. In contrast to MosaicAlt, Mosaic allows changing window sizes by relocating them with Layout.WindowNavigation.

xmonad on twitter

Just a reminder: xmonad articles and tips are collected on twitter. See you there!

xmonad cheatsheet

xmonad contributor sereven has kindly designed an xmonad keybindings cheatsheet, in the style of the famous vi cheatsheet.

Enjoy!

xmonad 0.8.1 : GHC 6.10 maintainance release

xmonad 0.8.1 is out. It is functionally identical to xmonad 0.8, but adds tweaks to build with GHC 6.10 (which is now the default on some distributions). xmonad-contrib is also up to date.

Meanwhile, work continues on the head branches, with many new improvements coming up for xmonad 0.9.

If you’re using GHC 6.10, get the latest release from Hackage.