[xmonad] Using TwoPane

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Jan Vornberger
<Jan.Vornberger at informatik.uni-oldenburg.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 05:05:45PM +0000, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> 1, Start state: (t1)|t2
>> 2. Cycle through windows: t1|(t2)
>> 3. Cycle again to get the two desired windows on the screen: t1|(t3)
>>
>> After this I can't get to the state (t1)|t3!
>
> I don't use TwoPane, but what about adding a step number 4 where you
> bring t3 up in the window order (with Mod+Shift+k). Now you should be
> able to easily switch between t1 and t3 in a single step. So I'm
> thinking:
>
>                   (t1) |  t2  |  t3    visible: t1 | t2
>  -> Mod+j ->        t1  | (t2) |  t3    visible: t1 | t2
>  -> Mod+j ->        t1  |  t2  | (t3)   visible: t1 | t3
>  -> Mod+Shift+k ->  t1  | (t3) |  t2    visible: t1 | t3
>
> Or do you feel that's too much 'preparation work'? :-)

That would be an acceptable solution.  It still isn't quite how I
think TwoPane *ought* to work :-)

Thanks!

/M

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