# xmonad-contrib: Third Party Extensions to the xmonad Window Manager
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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: <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib>
* Git version: <https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib>
(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, XMonad's [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) 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://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad
[developing]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib/docs/XMonad-Doc-Developing.html