[xmonad] Newbie: Problems with Layouts and Syntax

lithis xmonad at s001.hethrael.com
Fri Feb 29 14:15:31 EST 2008


On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:01:10PM +0100, john spencer wrote:
>    putting the
>    tabs at the bottom instead of the top would also be a great
>    enhancement. What do you think?

Reflect allows you to reflect any given layout horizontally
or vertically. Adding “import XMonad.Layout.Reflect” to your
config and “reflectVert(tabbed shrinkText defaultTConf)” to
your layouts will do it. reflectHoriz with tabbed is fun,
too—Arabic window manager, anyone?

(Also, Andrea had something like this; see
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2008-February/004767.html .
I don’t know how to use it, though.)

> I want to execute
> "windows W.focusDown" followed by a "windows W.swapMaster";

Does DwmPromote do what you want? See
http://www.xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Actions-DwmPromote.html

Browsing the XMonadContrib documentation at
http://www.xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/ is really
worth it. It’s almost a FAQ in itself.


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