Copyright | Jean-Charles Quillet |
---|---|
License | BSD-style (see LICENSE) |
Maintainer | none |
Stability | unstable |
Portability | unportable |
Safe Haskell | Safe-Inferred |
Language | Haskell2010 |
XMonad.Layout.Columns
Description
A layout which tiles the windows in columns. The windows can be moved and resized in every directions.
The first window appears in a single column in the center of the screen. Its
width is configurable (See coOneWindowWidth
).
The second window appears in a second column. Starting with two columns, they fill up the screen.
Subsequent windows appear on the bottom of the last columns.
Usage
Add Columns
to your layoutHook
with an initial empty state:
myLayout = Full ||| Columns 1 []
Here is an example of keybindings:
-- Focus up/down ((modm, xK_Tab), focusDown), ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_Tab), focusUp), -- Move windows around ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_l), sendMessage MoveRight), ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_h), sendMessage MoveLeft), ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_k), sendMessage MoveUp), ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_j), sendMessage MoveDown), -- Resize them ((modm .|. controlMask, xK_l), sendMessage HorizontalExpand), ((modm .|. controlMask, xK_h), sendMessage HorizontalShrink), ((modm .|. controlMask, xK_k), sendMessage VerticalExpand), ((modm .|. controlMask, xK_j), sendMessage VerticalShrink),
This layout is known to work with:
- XMonad.Layout.WindowNavigation for changing focus with a direction using
Go
messages. subTabbed
for docking windows together with tabs. Note that sometimes when undocking windows, the layout is reset. This is a minor annoyance caused by the difficulty to track windows in the sublayout.
data ColumnsLayout a Source #
Constructors
Columns | |
Fields
|
Instances
Messages
The layout handles focus change messages.
Built-in focus cannot be used here because XMonad
does not make it easy to
change the order of windows in the focus list. See also focusUp
and
focusDown
functions.
The windows can be moved in every directions.
Horizontally, a window alone in its column cannot be moved before the first or after the last column. If not alone, moving the window outside those limits will create a new column. The windows can also be moved vertically in their column.
The windows can be resized in every directions.
When resizing horizontally:
if the window to be resized is not in the last column
- then the right side of the window will be moved
- the last column will compensate the size change
if the window is in the last column
- then the left side of the window will be moved
- the column on the left of the current one will compensate the size change
The same applies when resizing vertically using the bottom side of the window unless it is the last window in the column in which case we use the top side.
Constructors
VerticalShrink | |
VerticalExpand | |
HorizontalShrink | |
HorizontalExpand |