I have been trying to get a stacked layout that works similar to the layout used in the qtile window manager. This works by having two stacks of windows that take 1/2 the screen each and can either show one the current window or all the windows in the current stack. ie --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- | stack 1 | stack2 | | window 1 | window 1 | | | | | +------------------------------------------| | | | | -------------------------------|window 2 | | window 2 | | || +-----------------------------------------| | | | | | window 3 | | | | --------------------------------+-------------------------------------------| The important thing with this is that the two columns can have windows added independently rather than a master slave arrangement which you get with the tall layout. This looks like something that combineTwo should be able to do but I don't really know enough about haskell or xmonad to get this working. Any suggestions on how to do this Joe
On 12/30/2010 09:45 PM, joe skinner wrote:
This works by having two stacks of windows that take 1/2 the screen each and can either show one the current window or all the windows in the current stack.
This is a setup that I've actually been looking for, but haven't found a way to produce from the existing layouts.
This looks like something that combineTwo should be able to do but I don't really know enough about haskell or xmonad to get this working.
Any suggestions on how to do this
This sort of works for me: combineTwo (TwoPane 0.03 0.5) Grid Grid Unfortunately, all windows after the second one open in the left pane (like a mirrored Tall). It says in the docs (http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Layout-Combo.html) that you'll need special shortcuts to move windows between the two columns. I've tried to implement them like this: , ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_l ), sendMessage $ Move R) , ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_j ), sendMessage $ Move D) , ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_h ), sendMessage $ Move L) , ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_k ), sendMessage $ Move U) It seems to have no effect though. If you can find a way to get that working, you should be able to sort of get what you want. But from what the docs say, to get exactly what you want will require making changes in xmonad's core.
Quoting joe skinner
This works by having two stacks of windows that take 1/2 the screen each and can either show one the current window or all the windows in the current stack.
This sounds very similar to wmii's layout. Accordingly, have you checked out XMonad.Layout.Groups.Wmii, available in darcs xmonad-contrib? ~d
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