I’ve been curious about the xmonad window manager, and decided to install it on Gutsy. Here’s the drill. First we install some required libraries, and Haskell (needed to compile xmonad). sudo aptitude install libxext-dev libghc6-mtl-dev libxt-dev ghc6 Next download the source for xmonad and its prerequisites. wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/mtl/1.0/mtl-1.0.tar.gz; wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/X11-extras/0.4/X11-extras-0.4.tar.gz; wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/X11/1.2.3/X11-1.2.3.tar.gz ; wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xmonad/0.4/xmonad-0.4.tar.gz [...]