M- for Super/Win, S- for Shift, C- for Control.

• Panel for multiple displays. Desktop info is only shown on current screen.

• Dynamic workspace creation

  • M-n: jump to create new workspace. S-<Enter> to force creating new window.
  • M-S-n: move window to select workspace, S-<Enter> to force creating new window.
  • M-C-S-n: rename workspace
  • M-C-S-<Backspace>: delete current workspace if it is empty

• Shortcuts help extracted from source: M-c h

• Urgency window notification through libnotify

• Switch workspace and toggle layouts using mouse.

• Select layout by prompt: M-S-\

• Multi toggle:

  • M-f: toggle fullscreen
  • M-<Escape>: toggle fullscreen, where hide panel in fullscreen.
  • M-d: zoom in active window
  • M-s: Make master window as sidebar. M-S-: can promote a window as master window.

• Carefully configured layouts:

  • cols: number of windows in each column can be changed using M-C-[ and M-C-].
  • two: Only show two windows. M-a and M-S-a are useful in this layout.
  • rows: Like cols but arrange windows into rows
  • tab: Like fullscreen but with a tab bar showing window names.
  • grid
  • big: the master window occupy most space.

• M-g, M-b switch window using fuzzy matching

• See prerequisites and optional tools below. For Arch Linuxer:

  yaourt -S ghc xmonad xmonad-contrib \
    zsh dzen2-xft-xpm-xinerama-svn dmenu-xft \
    rxvt-unicode pcmanfm-mod scrot nitrogen \
    xscreensaver gmrun xdotool wmctrl \
    gsimplecal gpicker \
    wqy-microhei-nightly_build \
    trayer libnotify
  

• Add path to bin to PATH.

• Copy or link xmonad.hs to ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs.

For startx and slim, copy or link following files to home directory (backup your own first):

_xinitrc -> ~/.xinitrc
_xsession -> ~/.xsession
_xsessionrc -> ~/.xsessionrc

• See _xsessionrc about how to setup multiple displays using xrandr.
• Add auto start applications in bin/xmonad.autostart, such as starting trayer.

TODO: How to start session in other session manager? I'm not sure whether ~/.xsession really works for xdm/gdm/kdm.

ghc, and xmonad-0.10 xmonad-contrib-0.10

In Arch Linux:

yaourt -S ghc xmonad xmonad-contrib

Or install using cabal:

yaourt -S cabal
cabal install xmonad xmonad-contrib

Cabal install packages into ~/.cabal, add ~/.cabal/bin to PATH.

Install latest zsh (mine is 4.3.17). Panel is written in zsh using zselect.

Must enable xft, xpm and xinerama. in Arch Linux, just install from aur:

yaourt -S dzen2-xft-xpm-xinerama-svn

Other system can compile from svn truck http://dzen.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ Edit config.mk enable Option 7.

Version 4.5 with xft patch. Arch Linuxer can install dmenu-xft.

yaourt -S dmenu-xft

Or compile source after applying dmenu-4.5-xft.diff

• urxvt: terminal, update myTerminal and myTerminalClass in xmonad.hs to use other terminals.

• libnotify: urgency notification

• pcmanfm: lightweight file browser, Arch can install pcmanfm-mod:

  yaourt -S pcmanfm-mod
  

• scrot: snapshot of whole screen M-<PrintScreen>, snapshot of selection: M-C-<PrintScreen>.

• nitrogen: set desktop background image.

• xscreensaver: screen saver

• gmrun: Launcher for M-<Enter>.

• xdotool: switch layouts using mouse

• wmctrl: switch layouts using mouse

• gsimplecal: calendar widget

• gpicker: goto/bring window

• font WenQuanYi MicroHei (for Chinese), or replace myFont and myMonoFont in xmonad.hs.

• trayer: trayer for daemon icons