Brent Yorgey wrote:
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 03:02:52PM +0200, Toby Cubitt wrote:
I've only just started using xmonad, and am hardly a haskell guru, so I'm probably making a stupid mistake here. But no amount of googling or searching this list's archives has thrown up anything useful (maybe because I don't know the right terms to search for).
I'm trying to get window decoration to work, with the following minimal xmonad.hs (taken more or less verbatim from the SimpleDecoration docs):
***** import XMonad import XMonad.Layout.SimpleDecoration
myLayoutHook = simpleDeco shrinkText defaultTheme (layoutHook defaultConfig)
main = xmonad $ defaultConfig { layoutHook = myLayoutHook } *****
The problem is, with this config all my windows are full-screen, even when there are multiple windows open on the same workspace, i.e. no tiling at all. And there's no window decoration visible (other than the window border).
Hmm, that's strange. Just to make sure we get the simple things out of the way first---
Definitely a good plan.
are you sure you didn't accidentally switch to fullscreen mode (i.e. with mod-space)?
To be sure, I tried hitting mod-space a few times, and also tried replacing the above layout hook with: myLayoutHook = simpleDeco shrinkText defaultTheme (Tall 1 (1/300) (1/2)) with no change in the behaviour.
You should also try hitting mod-shift-space to to a hard reload of the layout, sometimes that's necessary when changing your layout (since xmonad tries very hard to keep your layout state across restarts).
Also doesn't seem to help. I also tried quitting xmonad completely (M-S-q) and logging into X again, but still see the same behaviour.
Otherwise your xmonad.hs looks fine, although I'm not very familiar with the decoration stuff.
Thanks for taking the time to help, Toby