Hey, I used the following layout: reflectHoriz $ combineTwo (TwoPane delta ratio) (modifyLayout $ tabbed shrinkText defaultTheme) -- 2nd column layout (due to reflect) (modifyLayout $ tabbed shrinkText defaultTheme) -- 1st column layout (due to reflect), unused Hope it helps constructing a solution to your issue. Regards, Jan On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 01:36:37PM -0800, Phil Thomson wrote:

Hi Jan,

Thanks for the reply. I actually started with the L.Combo and L.LayoutCombinators but had trouble producing the behaviour I wanted. I switched to using the Master/Simplest/Tabbed combo on the advice of someone on the IRC channel after that didn't work.

Would you mind hpasting or sharing your xmonad.hs if you think there's something in it I might be able to steal?

I haven't gotten much response to my post yet, given the discussion about the xmonad project itself; maybe I'll try re-posting in a while when things are quieter. Didn't get much reply on IRC either. Guess I'll just keep at it. :-)

Thanks again,

Phil

On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 11:10:26 +0100, Jan-David Quesel wrote:

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Hi,

I have the same issue. The only solution I found so far was using a layout combinator like X.L.Combo but then it really gets messy with switching and shifting windows etc... but it might be a starting point...

Regards, Jan

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 12:13:40AM -0800, Phil Thomson wrote:

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Hi all,

I have been trying to build a custom layout for my small-screen netbook. The layout consists of a master area which contains one window and (if there is more than one window) a slave area in which all other windows are tabbed.

My xmonad.hs is here: http://hpaste.org/53712

The magic comes from this line in myLayoutHook:

addTabsAlways shrinkText myTabConfig (mastered 0.05 0.5 Simplest)

which relies on XMonad.Layout.Master, XMonad.Layout.Simplest and XMonad.Layout.Tabbed.

The problem for me is that when I have, say, 3 windows open, and window #3 (the second window in the tabbed slave area) is focused, if I switch to window #1 (the master window), then window #2 (the first window in the tabbed slave area) is raised (though not focused) so that I can no longer see window #3. The behaviour I would like is for window #3 to remain visible when I switch to the master window and, more generally, for whatever slave window has been visible to remain visible when I switch to the master area.

I have tried another two-paned layout without being able to eliminate the problematic behaviour.

Does anyone know 1) another way to implement the layout I am looking for with the behaviour I want or 2) a way to produce the behaviour I desire with my existing custom layout?

Phil

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