You should probably reply to list instead of me because the XMonad gurus are there. I think what you want to do can be done using sublayouts and/or layout combinators, but I never cared enough to try to figure out a way to use them in a way I liked. That's why I think someone with more experience with those things is more qualified to answer your questions. - Norbert Sean Charles [2010.08.25 1609 +0100]:

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:04:08 -0300, Norbert Zeh wrote:

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Sean Charles [2010.08.25 1313 +0100]:

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I have now tried the Roledex layout, this is nearly exactly what I want except that I want each window to be fullscreen rather than stacked the way it does... I am going to get the source code for this and modify it so that each window is the same size as the screen... it will be a good way

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both Haskell and xmonad.

If you want the windows to be fullscreen, then you can use XMonad.Layout.Full. This shows one window at a time and allows you to flip through the open windows. Your initial post didn't sound like you wanted fullscreen, though.

Correct. I want the standard tiling behaviour but with the added ability to open a new application in the current window but to stack them as I've said. Then I want a key binding to just rotate them back and forwards in-situ, like Alt+J/K but it moves to next next/previous application.

I don't think there is anything exactly like I want... would 'sub-layouts' help me here by allowing me to embed one layout within another? I really have zero knowledge of xmonad internals right now but I am going to try to write this thing myself!

:) Thanks Sean Charles.

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- Norbert

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Thanks for the pointers, If I get the result I want I will publish it / give it back / etc

:)

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:48:15 +0100, Sean Charles wrote:

Hi,

Being a long time LISP/Stump user I migrated to xmonad about eight months ago and I am totally

hooked,

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just bought 'Real World Haskell' and determined to 'get into it' ASAP!! Awesome.

I've read around the list but I can't see what I am after, prepared to write it myself if I have too... in stump you can create a new application in the same frame as the current one and then rotate between them; a circular queue of windows with the topmost one being the active one.

Can xmonad do this out of the box or with some nifty configuration applied to xmonad.hs ?

When I have a main window with firefox running and three smaller ones stacked beloe with pork, mutt and a shell open, I would like to be able to use the same space for emacs and swap between firefox and emacs as I work. It's not a problem really but I wondered if it would be easy to achieve the same stump-like operation?

Thanks. Sean Charles.

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