Updates: Status: Accepted Owner: vogt.adam Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium Component-Contrib Comment #1 on issue 425 by vogt.adam: XMonad.Layout.LayoutHints serious bugs http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=425 I agree that these deficiencies are significant. If you switch the order of hints and the decoration, the decorations are unaffected, but then the hints are incorrectly applied, since the correctly resized windows are later resized to make space for the decoration. LayoutHints does not treat windows which are the decorations differently, so they get resized (or at least the gray background does). Either LayoutHints could special case windows arranged by the layout being modified which do not exist in the passed Stack, or the decoration modules could set appropriate hints on those windows.