xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows. xmonad makes work easier, by automating this. After installing, use 'xwmconfig' command to reselect xmonad as window manager, either as root to do system-wide selection or as normal user to do user-specific selection. To get you started, the most basic key bindings are: mod-shift-return Launch xterm mod-shift-q Quit xmonad For a guided tour, see https://www.xmonad.org/tour.html After uninstalling, run this command to unregister the package from the ghc package database: ghc-pkg recache