After a year running a rather old school website, Devin Mullins has rewritten the site from scratch, to be much simpler, much easier to navigate, and with a renewed focus on “why you want xmonad”, and “how it makes your work easier” (hint: you stop wasting time organising your desktop, and can spend more type getting stuff done!). Yeah, we love Kathy Sierra, in xmonad land. Users rule!

There’s also a new section for videos too. So grab xvidcap, and record how you use xmonad. Show us something we don’t know!

To kick off the screencast season, here’s a reprise of the Haskell Workshop demo from a year ago, with Don S. talking about the design process behind xmonad:

And see you all at ICFP next week! Or on twitter, or on IRC.
Update

The screencasts are starting to appear. Here, a simple tour recorded with xvidcap,

The xmonad dev team is pleased to announce xmonad 0.8!

Download the xmonad 0.8 release

Headlines

• A general purpose replacement for “gaps” has been adopted.
• Floating windows pop up on the current screen by default
• Locale support
• Rock solid code. No new crash-inducing bugs reported.
• Many new extensions, including the ability to write your own configuration parsers.
• The 1000th commit was made to the project

xmonad is a leading tiling window manager, known for its reliability, flexibility, and efficiency. It supports true Xinerama tiling, and easy, rapid extension and customisation.

And yeah, it even runs on the openmoko:

We have had more than 70 developers contribute to the project. Thank you all!

Get it!

Information, screenshots, documentation, tutorials and community resources are available from the xmonad home page.