--- XMonad configuration file.
+-- xmonad configuration file.
--
--- Should work fine with XMonad 0.7 and above.
+-- Tested with xmonad 0.9, most settings should work fine with xmonad 0.7.
-- "hiding" necessary for LayoutCombinators.
import XMonad.Layout.Named
-- Necessary for JumpToLayout.
import XMonad.Layout.LayoutCombinators
+-- Necessary for Limit layout.
+import XMonad.Layout.TwoPane
-- Prevent new windows from spawning in the master pane. Taken from
--
-- named is used to name layouts which allows switching to a specific layout
-- (see below), thanks to vav in #xmonad on Freenode (2011-06-12 22:28 CEST).
-myLayoutHook = named "Default" (smartBorders $ Mirror tiled) ||| Full ||| named "Vertical" tiled
+--
+-- The limit layout displays only one window in the lower pane, thanks to to
+-- Qantourisc (2010-06-12 15:15 CEST) for the hint to use TwoPane.
+myLayoutHook = named "Default" (smartBorders $ Mirror tiled)
+ ||| named "Full" (smartBorders Full)
+ ||| named "Vertical" (smartBorders tiled)
+ ||| named "Limit" (smartBorders $ Mirror $ TwoPane delta ratio)
where
-- Default tiling algorithm partitions the screen into two panes.
tiled = Tall nmaster delta ratio
, return True -?> doF W.focusDown
]
--- Switch to next layout with descriptions in desc, other layouts are skipped.
--- This allows switching to some layouts with mappings but excluding them from
+-- Switch to next layout, but skip all layouts not in layouts argument. This
+-- allows switching to some layouts with mappings but excluding them from
-- meta-space (which gets mapped to this function). Thanks to aavogt in
--- #xmonad on Freenode for this function (2010-06-13 12:45 CEST), modified to
--- take list of layouts to switch to, not layouts to exclude.
-nextLayoutIncluding descs =
- do broadcastMessage NextLayout
- d <- gets (description . W.layout . W.workspace . W.current . windowset)
- if d `elem` descs
- then refresh
- else nextLayoutIncluding descs
+-- #xmonad on Freenode for this function (2011-06-13 12:45 CEST) and
+-- rootzlevel in #xmonad on Freenode for fixes (2011-06-13 15:20 CEST),
+-- modified to take list of layouts to switch to, not layouts to exclude.
+nextLayoutIncluding :: [String] -> X ()
+nextLayoutIncluding layouts = do
+ cws <- gets (W.workspace . W.current . windowset)
+ sendMessageWithNoRefresh NextLayout cws
+ nextLayoutIncluding' layouts
+
+nextLayoutIncluding' :: [String] -> X ()
+nextLayoutIncluding' layouts = do
+ cws <- gets (W.workspace . W.current . windowset)
+ if not $ (description $ W.layout cws) `elem` layouts
+ -- Skip over excluded layouts.
+ then do
+ sendMessageWithNoRefresh NextLayout cws
+ nextLayoutIncluding' layouts
+ -- Found allowed layout, show it.
+ else refresh
myKeys = [
-- Switch to next layout, but only use the listed layouts.
((mod4Mask, xK_space), nextLayoutIncluding ["Default", "Full"])
-- Switch to vertical tiled layout.
, ((mod4Mask, xK_v), sendMessage $ JumpToLayout "Vertical")
+ -- Switch to limit layout which displays only one window in the lower
+ -- pane.
+ , ((mod4Mask, xK_b), sendMessage $ JumpToLayout "Limit")
-- Switch to last active workspace, thanks to moljac024 in #xmonad on
-- Freenode (2010-12-18 14:45 CET).
]
++
-- When using multiple screens, switching to another workspace causes
- -- Xmonad to pull the workspace to the current screen if it was also
+ -- xmonad to pull the workspace to the current screen if it was also
-- displayed on another one. This is confusing for me so the following
-- code changes it to just switch to the screen where the workspace is
-- already displayed.
--
- -- Thanks to the Xmonad FAQ, read on 2010-06-16 13:42 CEST
+ -- Thanks to the xmonad FAQ, read on 2010-06-16 13:42 CEST
-- (http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Frequently_asked_questions).
-- Thanks to MrElendig in #xmonad on Freenode (2010-06-17 17:16 CEST) to
-- use the default XMonad workspaces.
, manageHook = myManageHook
-- Use unicode rxvt as my terminal.
, terminal = "urxvt"
- -- Necessary for Java so it recognizes XMonad as tiling window manager.
+ -- Necessary for Java so it recognizes xmonad as tiling window manager.
, startupHook = setWMName "LG3D"
}
`additionalKeys` myKeys