[xmonad] Minimise windows?

lithis xmonad at selg.hethrael.org
Fri Aug 15 09:43:04 EDT 2008


On Fri, 2008/08/15 09:57:30 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> I've found several times that I really miss minimising of windows.
> Right now e.g. I have a screen with VirtualBox (its control window and
> a window for a single VM) and I want to stick a browser next to the VM
> to follow some instructions on a web page.  What I've ended up doing
> so far is moving the control window to a "scratch screen" so that the
> screen is divided evenly between the VM and the browser.  However,
> once I'm done I'll move the browser back to the "web screen" and I'll
> have to move the control window back again from the "scratch screen".

You achieve the effect with the TwoPane layout. With
TwoPane, only two windows are visible regardless of how many
windows are in the workspace.


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