Information about the package, xmonad, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The xmonad package is designed for, A tiling window manager.
Package Name:
xmonad
Summary:
A tiling window manager
Description:
xmonad is a tiling window manager for X. Windows are arranged automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap, maximising screen use. All features of the window manager are accessible from the keyboard: a mouse is strictly optional. xmonad is written and extensible in Haskell. Custom layout algorithms, and other extensions, may be written by the user in config files. Layouts are applied dynamically, and different layouts may be used on each workspace. Xinerama is fully supported, allowing windows to be tiled on several screens. This is a meta-package that installs xmonad-basic and ghc-xmonad-contrib-devel, allowing xmonad to be customized with "~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs". To use xmonad with GNOME, please install xmonad-gnome.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.10
Release:
3.4.2.el6
Size:
12 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the xmonad package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install xmonad
This command will install xmonad on the server.
yum remove xmonad
This command will un-install xmonad on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove xmonad, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove xmonad
This command will un-install xmonad on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove xmonad when using the -y flag.
yum update xmonad
This command will update xmonad to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove xmonad, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update xmonad
This command will update xmonad to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove xmonad when using the -y flag.
yum info xmonad
This command will show you core information about the xmonad package.
yum deplist xmonad
This command will show you the dependencies for xmonad. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update xmonad
This command will check if there is an update waiting on xmonad. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.