 Today I want to share with you guys a little news regarding X-mone ad X-mone ad is a tiling window manager It's my favorite tiling window manager, and it's what I'm basing DTOS around and because of that Follow X-mone ad development rather closely if you go to their website at X-mone ad org and you click on what's new You're the blog down here The very first blog is X-mone ad and X-mone ad dash control of zero dot seventeen dot zero are now available And this blog post was about two weeks ago And this is the first release of X-mone ad and X-mone ad dash control in like three years So it's a huge release for the X-mone ad project a lot of work has gone into this in the last three years major improvements major changes new libraries that you can now Import such as now there's going to be a X-mone ad prompt org mode So I guess now we can have an X-mone ad prompt that interacts with org mode in some way I guess for your to-do information your notes your agendas looks like there's going to be new modules for status bar stuff I know now it's they're going to make it easier to have clickable Workspaces and your X-mobar and things like that X-mone ad hooks dot windows swallowing is a Feature that was requested by a whole bunch of you guys about a year and a half ago And actually it was implemented into X-mone ad dash control like a week after I made that video about How to do windows swallowing in X-mone ad using a third-party program the X-mone ad guys actually figured out how to just do that In X-mone ad itself like the next week now apparently it wasn't a very big fix But we haven't had the actual release of X-mone ad dash control up until just a couple of weeks ago So I've been waiting for like a year and a half to be able to use the windows swallowing module so a lot of work went into the new release and Right now even though it's two weeks since the official release of zero dot seventeen in arch Linux They're still on zero dot fifteen the previous release of X-mone ad I've been waiting for about two weeks Hoping that the new version would come out before I needed to make this video But I've waited about two weeks arch is still in the old version So I'm not gonna show you guys zero dot seventeen on camera today Because I'm not going to even though I could compile X-mone ad zero dot seventeen myself And you know it's probably gonna break my old config so I'll have to update my configs But many of you guys are using my configs It's gonna break the configs for you because you guys are probably still gonna be using X-mone ad the version from the official arch repositories So I'm gonna wait on the arch repositories to actually ship zero dot seventeen before moving to it But the reason I'm making today's video is not to show you guys X-mone ad zero dot seventeen It's that the X-mone ad developers they put in a ton of work on this You know, I mean they're under active development all the time helping improve X-mone ad and I know many of you guys use X-mone ad I use X-mone ad on a daily basis and these guys are putting out a call for action The first thing they're asking for is they're having a logo contest They want to announce a contest to create a new X-mone ad logo to replace the current one So if you guys have got some serious artistic skills, please submit a logo and guess what they're actually offering a prize to the winner They will pay the winner a hundred dollars and that's really cool And another thing they're doing is they're looking for funding because you know It's not easy to keep a project like X-mone ad going because X-mone ad needs, you know It needs a lot of work for one thing one of the things they're really trying to do is eventually Get Wayland support working because X-mone ad of course was built to work with Xorg I mean X-mone ad started probably 15 years ago way before Wayland was even thought about and X-mone ad the X in the name is for X11 the Xorg server, right? And they really have never had a serious road map to get to Wayland until just in the last couple of years And now they're starting to get started on a new project called Waymone ad so that hopefully when Wayland is ready You know, we can have X-mone ad essentially on Wayland But of course that's gonna require a lot of work and they're asking for funding and this is really why I'm making today's video Is they're asking for you guys to help support them and what they're doing is they have opened up sponsorships over on github And they have a goal of they want 500 sponsors and right now it looks like they only have about 35 sponsors and you guys you can donate whatever you want You can specify an amount I mean you could donate a dollar a month to them or whatever they have specific tiers here $7 a month $14 a month $25 a month and if you guys are really generous $50 $250 or even $1,000 a month and I have already Signed up over on github and I've donated monthly to them. I've went ahead and signed up for a sponsorship It's only fitting right because I use X-mone ad on a daily basis It's one of the things with free and open source software I tell you guys even if it's free as in free of charge if it's something that you depend on you know for work or just Enjoyment right you really should contribute to the open source projects you use on a daily basis That's why I like giving money to in this case X-mone ad Other projects that I often donate money to especially as we get near to the end of the year You'll see a lot of fundraising drives and I like to donate to projects like gimp and katin live obs things like that because These are actually pieces of free and open source software that I depend on to make a living So if you guys can help out the X-mone ad project whether it be through code whether it be through Sponsorships donations those of you that have artistic skills Please help contribute artwork those of you that want to enter the logo contest Please do that and of course those of you that are X-mone ad users be on the lookout for version 0.17 It should hit your repositories any day now now before I go. 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