Re: [xmonad] Grid layout eats other layouts

* Yitzchak Gale [2008-04-27 18:54:03+0300]

I wrote:

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I want to add Grid to the default list of layouts. When I do: ,layoutHook = avoidStruts $ layoutHook defaultConfig ||| Grid I only get Tall and Grid. The last two layouts from defaultConfig - Mirror Tall and Full - disappear, seemingly "eaten" by Grid... Any ideas why?

Roman Cheplyaka wrote:

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It's because code which works with Choose data type expects the tree to grow to the left. If you write ,layoutHook = avoidStruts $ Grid ||| layoutHook defaultConfig it will work.

But that would put Grid as the first layout instead of the last. That is not what I want.

Right. It's not a solution, I'm just illustrating the problem (your question was "why", not "what to do"). Now your options are: - compose needed layouts explicitely (again, layouts like (a|||b)|||c won't work), or - use NewSelect combinator from XMonad.Layout.LayoutCombinators. -- Roman I. Cheplyaka :: http://ro-che.info/ ...being in love is totally punk rock...