I have been trying to get a stacked layout that works similar to the layout used in the qtile window manager. This works by having two stacks of windows that take 1/2 the screen each and can either show one the current window or all the windows in the current stack. ie --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- | stack 1 | stack2 | | window 1 | window 1 | | | | | +------------------------------------------| | | | | -------------------------------|window 2 | | window 2 | | || +-----------------------------------------| | | | | | window 3 | | | | --------------------------------+-------------------------------------------| The important thing with this is that the two columns can have windows added independently rather than a master slave arrangement which you get with the tall layout. This looks like something that combineTwo should be able to do but I don't really know enough about haskell or xmonad to get this working. Any suggestions on how to do this Joe