[xmonad] ANN: xmonad-0.11

http://xmonad.org The xmonad dev team is pleased to announce xmonad 0.11! The headlines: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Notable_changes_since_0.10 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 0.11 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 0.11 packages will appear in coming days. On the fly updating to xmonad 0.11 is supported, without losing your session! You can even use cabal-install: $ cabal update $ cabal install xmonad $ cabal install xmonad-contrib $ xmonad --recompile; xmonad --restart 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/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 130 developers: Henrique Abreu intrigeri Mats Rauhala Alexey Khudyakov Dmitri Iouchtchenko Geoff Reedy Hans Philipp Annen Conrad Irwin Jesper Reenberg Jeremy Apthorp Rohan Jain Lanny Ripple Dmitry Astapov Michal Janeczek Andrea Rossato Shachaf Ben-Kiki Tomas Janousek David Roundy Alec Berryman Mats Jansborg rupa Ben Boeckel Spencer Janssen Andres Salomon Justin Bogner Julia Jomantaite Karsten Schoelzel Gwern Branwen Simon Peyton Jones Daniel Schoepe Joachim Breitner kedals0 Steffen Schuldenzucker Matt Brown Brandon Allbery Nils Schweinsberg Dominik Bruhn Miikka Koskinen seanmce33 Alexandre Buisse Dmitry Kurochkin Austin Seipp Nick Burlett David Lazar Leonardo Serra Luis Cabellos lithis Braden Shepherdson cardboard42 longpoke Marco e Silva Ismael Carnales Carlos Lopez-Camey Audun Skaugen Roman Cheplyaka Erik de Castro Lopo Michael G. Sloan Jason Creighton Mike Lundy Konstantin Sobolev daedalusinfinity Lukas Mai Dougal Stanton Nils Anders Danielsson Jussi Maki Mathias Stearn Aaron Denney Malebria Don Stewart Christian Dietrich Robert Marlow Joel Suovaniemi Bas van Dijk Tomohiro Matsuyama Wouter Swierstra Aleksandar Dimitrov David McLean Ivan Tarasov Jurgen Doser Chris Mears Alex Tarkovsky Nicolas Dudebout Alejandro Serrano Mena Christian Thiemann Nelson Elhage Eric Mertens Joe Thornber Trevor Elliott Ivan Miljenovic timthelion Anders Engstrom Neil Mitchell Michal Trybus Shae Erisson Tony Morris Ivan N. Veselov Sean Escriva Quentin Moser Ben Voui Will Farrington Devin Mullins Adam Vogt Joachim Fasting Yaakov Nemoy Jan Vornberger Michael Fellinger Daniel Neri Valery V. Vorotyntsev Clemens Fruhwirth Stefan O'Rear Peter De Wachter Johann Giwer Carsten Otto Daniel Wagner David Glasser Mario Pastorelli Ferenc Wagner Kai Grossjohann perlkat Jamie Webb Rickard Gustafsson Jens Petersen Klaus Weidner Dave Harrison Ilya Portnov Wirt Wolff Travis B. Hartwell Nicolas Pouillard Brent Yorgey Juraj Hercek Jan-David Quesel Norbert Zeh Tim Horton Max Rabkin Ian Zerny Sam Hughes Tom Rauchenwald 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!