Hello all -- (Replying to myself might be considered bad form, but...) On 16/12/2007, Thomas Adam wrote:

Hello all,

Maybe this is already possible through some combination of existing extensions, I'm not sure so I thought I would ask anyway.

I'm not using anything fancy at the moment, just the usual layouts defined like this:

, layoutHook = configurableNavigation (navigateColor "#00aa00") $ toggleLayouts (noBorders Full) $ (smartBorders (tiled ||| Mirror tiled ||| Full))

Sometimes, when I am working in tiled mode, I might have a layout such as this:

+------------+-------------+ | window A | | +------------+Window D| | window B | | +------------+-------------+ | window C |Window E | +------------+-------------+

Where windows A,B and C are in the master pane. Is it possible to make window D in this example fill the entire right hand side (to effectively "cover" window E) and then to toggle it back afterwards? There are times where there might be many more windows in the non-master pane and having one window fill the entire space would be useful.

So I dug about a bit and had a look at: XMonad.Layout.LayoutCombinators Is this something I could conceivably use to achieve the above? I tried the example config supplied in the documentation but I confess I have no idea quite what all the weird idiomatic operators this hook defines actually means. Also, in using the example from its documentation, I noticed that none of my key-bindings worked anymore. I could still use the defaults though. Switching back to my old layout solved this, so this *has* to be a bug with LayoutCombinators. -- Thomas Adam