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XMonad is an an amazing window manager (WM) made by a bunch of nerds who care a whole lot about a niche problem. Software by caring nerds is my favorite software as a user.

I really hope it makes the jump to Wayland. I've used XMonad for more than a decade and it's still my favorite WM.

XMonad really let me forget about managing windows---I never have to resize a window or remember where I put a window. XMonad handles the arranging and resizing and floating for me. There's a nice layout for small screens that will zoom your active window[0]. You can cobble your desktop together into whatever makes you happiest: Active corners. ScratchPads. So much in XMonad Contrib[1].

Since I'm not the right person to help with porting to Wayland, I'm giving money via the GitHub sponsorship page[2].

I check in on discourse from time to time: progress looks slow. The person/people they need are hard to come by.

[0]: <https://xmonad.github.io/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-L...>

[1]: <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib>

[2]: <https://github.com/sponsors/xmonad>


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