[Xmonad] Tiled layout with more columns?

[David Roundy]

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:43:10PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> I've got a widescreen display and I found out that three columns of
> windows fit comfortably.  So I would be interested in a layout that is
> similar to the normal¹ tiled layout, except that it has three columns
> instead of two.
> 
> The first window would go in the master area, then half of the remaining
> windows would go into the middle column, the other half of in the
> rightmost column.  (The rightmost column may have one more window than
> the middle column, depending on the number of windows in the workspace.)
> 
> The middle column and the right column would have the same width.
> 
> Does something like this exist already?

No, but it shouldn't take more than a dozen lines of code.  Just copy
"tall" and "tile" into your Config.hs (and rename them), and modify tile to
create more columns.
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David Roundy
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