Xmonad user manual

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Authors Started in by Spencer Janssen , Don Stewart and Jason Creighton , the XMonad project lives on thanks to new generations of maintainers and dozens of contributors.

Releases 1 v0. Also, it looks really really cool. The easiest way to use different layouts in xmonad is to select a list of your favourite ones, and write it into your xmonad. Then while using it, hit mod - space to cycle through the list and mod - shift - space to reset to the first layout. For clarity, I recommend defining all your layouts in a variable outside the main function, then referencing it inside your call to xmonad. Use the triple-pipe operator, , to list your desired layouts.

Run xmonad --replace to restart xmonad with the new configuration, and give it a try! Toggle navigation Menu Between Two Commits. Home About. Tall The Tall layout has the master pane on the left, taking half of the screen.

Configuration The Tall layout has three optional parameters. Spiral The Spiral layout starts with a window taking a majority of the screen on the left, then another window taking occupying the top of the remainder, then another on the right of the remainder, then the bottom of the remainder, then the left of the remainder, and so on. Configuration A popular proportion for the amount of space a window takes vs.

Three Columns As the name suggests, the ThreeCol layout splits the screen into three columns: one primary, and two secondary. Configuration The configuration for ThreeCol is the same as for Tall, with the first parameter being the starting number of windows in the primary pane, the second parameter being the amount of resize, and the third being the initial proportion of the main column.

Grid The Grid layout arranges windows evenly horizontally and vertically, as much as possible. Configuration There are no parameters for this layout, although it does have a variant which allows you to adjust the ratio of columns to rows. Multi-Cols The MultiColumns layout arranges windows side-by-side, each filling the entire vertical space and sharing the horizontal space. Full This layout is the simplest - it fills the entire screen with one window. Sets of windows are grouped together on virtual screens, and each screen retains its own layout, which may be reconfigured dynamically.

Multiple physical monitors are supported via Xinerama, allowing simultaneous display of a number of screens. By utilizing the expressivity of a modern functional language with a rich static type system, xmonad provides a complete, featureful window manager in less than lines of code, with an emphasis on correctness and robustness.

Internal properties of the window manager are checked using a combination of static guarantees provided by the type system, and type-based automated testing.

A benefit of this is that the code is simple to understand, and easy to modify. Each workspace can have any number of windows, which you can cycle though with mod-j and mod-k. Tabbed TwoPane XMonad. Dwindle XMonad. PhysicalScreens XMonad. Spacing XMonad. EwmhDesktops XMonad. NoBorders historyHook XMonad. This is a massive improvement from the tedious i3 procedure.

The default Tall layout is already very sensible in that it is automatically able to use both axes of the screen. Useful modules from xmonad-contrib The above are only the beginning, as xmonad-contrib offers many ready-to-use modules which massively enhance the already great defaults.

Layouts Layout algorithms are the fundamentals of any window manager. Tabbed XMonad. Tabbed This layout adds tabs to the default Fullscreen layout. TwoPane XMonad. TwoPane This is a frequent use case I had in i3: Divide a window into two panes and cycle between applications within an individual pane. ResizableTall XMonad. ResizableTile The default Tall layout only allows for adjusting the ratio of the main split, i.

BinarySpacePartition This layout will automatically split your focused window in two to make space for the newly created window. Spiral, Dwindle XMonad. Dwindle These two layouts imitate awesomeWM and produce increasingly smaller windows in fixed locations. PhysicalScreens This is an essential module for multi-monitor setups. StackSet as W import qualified Data.