xmonad : a lightweight X11 window manager. Motivation: dwm is great, but we can do better, building a more robust, more correct window manager in fewer lines of code, using strong static typing. Enter Haskell. If the aim of dwm is to fit in under 2000 lines of C, the aim of xmonad is to fit in under 500 lines of Haskell with similar functionality. Building: Get the dependencies mtl http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/mtl-1.0 X11 http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11-1.2 (Unfortunately X11-1.2 does not work correctly on AMD64. The latest darcs version from http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/X11 does.) X11-extras: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11-extras-0.1 unix http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/unix-2.0 (included with ghc) dmenu 2.{5,6,7} http://www.suckless.org/download/dmenu-2.7.tar.gz And then build with Cabal: runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --prefix=/home/dons runhaskell Setup.lhs build runhaskell Setup.lhs install Then add: exec /home/dons/bin/xmonad to the last line of your .xsession file Authors: Spencer Janssen Don Stewart Jason Creighton