[xmonad] Controlling Window Location with XMonad.Layout.ThreeColumns

[Eyal Erez]

Definitely,

Thank you very much for following up.

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Eyal,
>
> I'm just going back through old xmonad emails trying to make sure nothing
> falls through the cracks.  Would you mind creating an issue for this at
> https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/issues ?  I am not yet confident
> I understand what is going on here well enough to know what the right fix
> is, but if a ticket is created then it becomes easier for others to look at
> it, and it won't accidentally be forgotten.  Thanks!
>
> -Brent
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 4:38 PM Eyal Erez <oneself at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> Thank you for your response.  I've spent the last few days trying to
>> compile and run xmonad locally without much success.
>> Would there be any chance you could make this change so that it might get
>> into 0.13 before it gets released?
>>
>> Otherwise, I'll continue to try and get xmonad to run locally.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 6:32 AM, Daniel Wagner <dmwit at dmwit.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think I'd consider that a bug, and it's probably easy enough to fix it.
>> This is a guess based on reading the source, so you should verify for
>> yourself whether this changes things appropriately, but...
>>
>> In XMonad.Layout.ThreeColumns.split3HorizontallyBy, swap the second two
>> elements of the triple in the True branch, so that it reads:
>>
>>     then ( Rectangle (sx + fromIntegral r3w) sy r1w sh
>>          , Rectangle sx sy r3w sh
>>          , Rectangle (sx + fromIntegral r3w + fromIntegral r1w) sy r2w sh
>> )
>>
>> ~d
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Eyal Erez <oneself at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an ultrawide monitor and so I use ThreeColumns most of the
>> time.  I create it like so:
>>
>>     ThreeColMid 1 (3/100) (1/3)
>>
>> This works fine, however, I'm getting some strange behavior when
>> creating an closing windows.  I hope I can explain this with a small
>> diagram which shows window location as I create and close apps:
>>
>> CREATE
>> 1 [   a   ]
>> 2 [b][ a  ]
>> 3 [a][c][b]
>>
>> CLOSE
>> 1 [a][c][b]
>> 2 [b][ a  ]
>> 3 [   a   ]
>>
>> So, when going from 2 to 3 open windows, window "a" and "b" switch
>> location for some reason. in step #2 "b" is on the left and "a" is on
>> the right, but when a third window is added (or removed) they swap
>> locations.  This is very confusing.
>>
>> Is there anyway I can cause this to stop happening?  It would also be
>> nice if window "b" was created into the active location, but that's
>> more of a nitpick.
>>
>> Thank you
>>
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