Posts Tagged ‘contrib’

XMonad.Actions.CycleWindows
by Wirt Wolff
Provides bindings to cycle windows up or down on the current workspace stack while maintaining focus in place. Bindings are available to:

Cycle nearby or nth windows into the focused frame
Cycle a window halfway around the stack
Cycle windows through the focused position.
Cycle unfocused windows.

These bindings are especially useful with layouts that hide some of [...]


One issue that was irritating xmonad users for a while is that if you launch an application which takes some time to load (say, firefox or eclipse) and go to another workspace, program’s windows appears on the workspace you currently are on, not on the workspace the application was launched on.
Eventually, solution is found and [...]


A new xmonad layout has been committed to the xmonad-contrib repository, courtesy Norbert Zeh. Here’s how he describes it:
After using GridVariants.TallGrid for a while, I got fed up with the fact that the meaning of columns and rows get exchanged when TallGrid is rotated using Mirror (as well as with other small nuisances).
The attached patch [...]


From now on we are going to announce new extensions from the xmonad-contrib library in this blog.
Here are the first contributions of 2009. Try them out!
ThreeColumnsMiddle
by Carsten Otto
A layout similar to Tall but with three columns, where the main window is in the middle. With 2560×1600 pixels this layout can be used for a huge [...]