Hi, I wished for a layout in which the bottom 1/10th of my screen would have a fixed few things (mostly filled with tail -f's of logs and such), while being free to use the rest of the upper 9/10 of the screen normally. I was suggested I play with LayoutScreens for this. The idea was that it would "divide" the screen in half -- pretend as if I had two monitors... I tried it out. It's working. I'm using the lines in this page exactly: http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Layout-LayoutScreens.htm... i.e.: import XMonad.Layout.LayoutScreens import XMonad.Layout.TwoPane --[....] , ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_space), layoutScreens 2 (TwoPane 0.5 0.5)) , ((modm .|. controlMask .|. shiftMask, xK_space), rescreen) And this very nicely gets me what I wanted -- but just with one problem. Instead of the division being vertical, it's horizontal. To give you a pictorial depiction, instead of it being like this: [workspace 1] [workspace 2], it's sort of like this: [workspace 1][workspace 2] I would appreciate any suggestions on how I can have it like the first depiction. I hope you're kind and use small words -- I'm new to both Haskell and XMonad :) Thank you very much for your time, -Kyle