aditya siram wrote:

Hi all, I would like to maximize my focused window. There are three modules in the Xmonad-contrib library : XMonad.Layout.Magnifier, XMonad.Layout.Maximize, XMonad.Layout.MultiToggle. They all appear to implement maximizing.

Any recommendations?

-deech

Maximize should probably be renamed or combined with Magnifier, since it is written to leave a 50 px border around the "maximized" window. Neither of these produces the Full layout that most users are looking for in asking for maximize layout. MultiToggle is a great way to do this, but iirc has issues with certain layouts, (tabbed or decorated I think? -- perhaps someone more knowledgable can confirm or deny). For toggling only a single layout Layout.ToggleLayouts is probably best. It will let you e.g. bind a key to toggle to and from Full. Another option is LayoutCombinators module, which has a different (|||) to use instead of the default XMonad (|||) this acts a little like multi-toggle, in that you can bind keys to toggle to/from more than one layout. I don't know if it has any issues with decorated layouts, and is a little more complicated to set up. Overall... ToggleLayouts if all you want it toggle to/from some variant of Full layout. regards, Wirt