Re: [xmonad] Grid layout eats other layouts

* Roman Cheplyaka [2008-04-27 19:00:20+0300]

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

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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.

BTW, I'm not sure about the last. Since your "layoutHook defaultConfig" will use the old combinator, they may not play nicely. Then, just write down layouts explicitely. -- Roman I. Cheplyaka (aka Feuerbach @ IRC)