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). Clearly there's something basic that I'm missing here, but what? I'm using a darcs checkout of xmonad (via the Gentoo xmonad-darcs ebuilds), compiled this morning. Thanks for helping out an xmonad beginner. Even at this stage, I'm finding xmonad a delight to use, and incredibly fast and stable. Toby