[xmonad] Stump like behavior...

[Norbert Zeh]

Sean Charles [2010.08.25 1313 +0100]:
> 
> 
> I have now tried the Roledex layout, this is nearly exactly what I want
> except that I want each window to be fullscreen rather than stacked the way
> it does... I am going to get the source code for this and modify it so that
> each window is the same size as the screen... it will be a good way into
> both Haskell and xmonad. 

If you want the windows to be fullscreen, then you can use
XMonad.Layout.Full.  This shows one window at a time and allows you to
flip through the open windows.  Your initial post didn't sound like you
wanted fullscreen, though.

- Norbert

> 
> Thanks for the pointers,
> If I get the result I
> want I will publish it / give it back / etc 
> 
> :) 
> 
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010
> 11:48:15 +0100, Sean Charles  wrote:  
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> Being a long time LISP/Stump
> user I migrated to xmonad about eight months ago and I am totally hooked,
> just bought 'Real World Haskell' and determined to 'get into it' ASAP!!
> Awesome. 
> 
> I've read around the list but I can't see what I am after,
> prepared to write it myself if I have too... in stump you can create a new
> application in the same frame as the current one and then rotate between
> them; a circular queue of windows with the topmost one being the active
> one. 
> 
> Can xmonad do this out of the box or with some nifty configuration
> applied to xmonad.hs ? 
> 
> When I have a main window with firefox running and
> three smaller ones stacked beloe with pork, mutt and a shell open, I would
> like to be able to use the same space for emacs and swap between firefox
> and emacs as I work. It's not a problem really but I wondered if it would
> be easy to achieve the same stump-like operation? 
> 
> Thanks.
> Sean Charles.
> 
> 
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