[xmonad] Fwd: Patch to add new Layout message

[Mike Meyer]

Hit send before I had checked the headers, and it only went to Daniel.
Sorry for the extra mail, Daniel.

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From: Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org>
Date: Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: [xmonad] Patch to add new Layout message
To: Daniel Wagner <dmwit at dmwit.com>


On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Daniel Wagner <dmwit at dmwit.com> wrote:

> Excerpts from Mike Meyer's message of 2014-09-23 07:31:08 -0700:
> > The Message is called "SplitMaster", and has no arguments. It sets the
> > client count of the master pane to 1 if it's not currently 1, thus
> > providing a quick way to get back to that setting. It setgs the client
> > count for the master pane to 2 if it's currently 1, effectively making
> it a
> > toggle between the two modes of a split master pane and an full size
> master
> > pane.
>
> Can this be done entirely from the configuration? For example, a
> low-tech solution would be to simply have two Tall layouts in your
> layout hook (one with one master pane and one with two master panes) and
> a keybinding that toggles between them, e.g. using
> X.A.CycleSelectedLayouts [1].
>
> I recognize that this is not *identical*, but perhaps it's close to your
> needs and doesn't require changes xmonad's corej
>

After thinking about it some, I would say using multiple Layouts won't work
- but I'm not an expert.  The problem for me is that I actually use
multiple Layouts, and switching between them is a conceptually different
thing from switching between one and two clients in the master pane. So
using an extra layout for this would create extra steps when I wanted to
change the number of clients in the master pane AND when I wanted to change
layouts. I think I'd rather have the current behavior. If someone wants o

Is there some way to have a configuration with two sets of layouts to
toggle between? that would certainly do the trick. While I can see how to
do that, I'm not sure it's in general a good idea and so suspect it's not
there.
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