* john spencer
Hi!
After having some contact with xmonad 0.4 (and dismissing it for some reasons) I thought it's time to have a look at it again. And ... wow! :-)) Maybe it's now time to change - if I can get some things right.
I'm currently a user of larswm; I configured it to have one large main (master) area and all the other windows of the current workspace stacked on the right site. With that configuration I am very fast selecting the window I want and making it the 'master'. I never work in one of the windows on the right site (you could also work in fullscreen mode -I hear you say- but for me its much more convenient to know in ONE look how many times I have to hit the 'next window' key than checking it every time I switch fullscreen); this means that these windows are never resized (just once when they are created at the main area).
So that's not a tiling layout, right? Could you provide a screenshot?
Long speech - short sense: I need a fast possibility to select the window I am interested in. As I can see, I have several possibilities with xmonad:
1. I could use the Hinted Tile Layout. As far as I understood, this layout shouldn't resize the windows when they are put out of the master. This would be the same configuration as I use currently with larswm. The problem is, it doesn't work always. Some apps (ie. aterm, konsole) seem to get resized which results in a nearly blank window when getting them back to the master. I don't know why the behaviour in larswm is different here - any ideas?
2. I could use the Tabbed Layout. Unfortunately the tabs currently are not giving me a really fast glue what is behind them. I have to read the title of the tabs - thats not very fast. I can image that some color-coding (ie. using regexps in the config) could improve this significantly. Also -since working on the terminal means looking at the bottom of the screen most of the time- putting the tabs at the bottom instead of the top would also be a great enhancement. What do you think?
This is quite simple. I don't know if it's already implemented, if not, I'll do it in the evening.
Are there any other options you can think of? Unfortunately I don't have any progamming skills w/ haskell. Which brings me to another problem: I'd like to map a key to execute two actions: I want to execute "windows W.focusDown" followed by a "windows W.swapMaster"; I have no idea how to specify this:
((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_Return), ... ??? ... -- windows W.focusDown && windows W.swapMaster
Use >> to sequence actions. E.g. windows W.focusDown >> windows W.swapMaster -- Roman I. Cheplyaka (aka Feuerbach @ IRC)