osxmonad

This is a library that allows XMonad to manage Mac OS X windows.

Status

• Only attached hook is layoutHook
• No workspaces
• No borders
• No focusFollowsMouse

Installation

Note: users with macOS 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and superior will have to download and install XQuartz.

We need XMonad's compilation step to include the -framework Cocoa flag to GHC. This repository includes an xmonad.patch (1 line diff) that you must apply to the XMonad source:

git clone https://github.com/yvan-sraka/osxmonad.git
git clone https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad.git
cd xmonad
git apply ../osxmonad/xmonad.patch
cabal configure
cabal install
cd ../osxmonad
cabal configure
cabal install

Note: cabal configure && cabal install steps could be replaced by stack install if you prefer or just want to give a try to the Haskell Tool Stack!

Configuration

Create ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs:

import XMonad
import OSXMonad.Core

main = osxmonad defaultConfig {
            modMask = mod1Mask .|. mod4Mask,
            keys = osxKeys
        }

Now we can run xmonad to have our windows managed.

Troubleshooting

• ld: library not found for -lXss: xmonad/X11#24