Christopher M Howard
Hi. I'm totally new to Xmonad, as of a few days ago. I'm using Xmonad as a drop-in replacement for Metacity in Gnome, following the instructions on your Website. I followed the Guided Tour and the Step-by-Step, and so I have things configured pretty much all the way I want (for now). The only thing that would be nice is a slight alteration to the "Tall" layout window algorithm: Currently when a new window is launched from the primary window, the new window becomes the primary window and the original window gets shifted off to the side. I'd prefer it if the new Window was automatically put into the side pane and the original window remained the primary window.
I'm hoping to go through all your documentation, figure out how all of Xmonad works, and learn Haskell. But in the meantime I was wondering if there was a relatively quick way to implement that small adjustment.
Take a look at XMonad.Hooks.InsertPosition[1]. I'm not sure how to query whether a window is the master or not, but that module should help. --Ben [1]http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Hooks-InsertPosition.htm...