# xmonad-contrib: Third Party Extensions to the xmonad Window Manager You need the ghc compiler and xmonad window manager installed in order to use these extensions. For installation and configuration instructions, please see the [xmonad website] [xmonad], the documents included with the [xmonad source distribution] [xmonad-git], and the [online haddock documentation] [xmonad-docs]. ## Getting or Updating XMonadContrib * Latest release: * Git version: (To use git xmonad-contrib you must also use the [git version of xmonad] [xmonad-git].) ## Contributing Haskell code contributed to this repo should live under the appropriate subdivision of the `XMonad` namespace (currently includes `Actions`, `Config`, `Hooks`, `Layout`, `Prompt`, and `Util`). For example, to use the Grid layout, one would import: XMonad.Layout.Grid For further details, see the [documentation] [developing] for the `XMonad.Doc.Developing` module and the [xmonad website] [xmonad]. ## License Code submitted to the contrib repo is licensed under the same license as xmonad itself, with copyright held by the authors. [xmonad]: http://xmonad.org [xmonad-git]: https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad [xmonad-docs]: http://www.xmonad.org/xmonad-docs [developing]: http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Doc-Developing.html