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Simple fullscreen mode. Renders the focused window fullscreen.

The builtin tiling mode of xmonad. Supports Shrink, Expand and IncMasterN.

Mirror a layout, compute its 90 degree rotated form.

Change the size of the master pane.

Increase the number of clients in the master pane.

A layout that allows users to switch between various layout options.

The layout choice combinator

Choose the current sub-layout (left or right) in Choose.

Messages to change the current layout. Also see JumpToLayout.

A message to jump to a particular layout, specified by its description string.

The argument given to a JumpToLayout message should be the description of the layout to be selected. If you use XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog from xmonad-contrib, this is the name of the layout displayed in your status bar. Alternatively, you can use GHCi to determine the proper name to use. For example:

$ ghci
GHCi, version 6.8.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
Loading package base ... linking ... done.
:set prompt "> "    -- don't show loaded module names
> :m +XMonad.Core   -- load the xmonad core
> :m +XMonad.Layout.Grid  -- load whatever module you want to use
> description Grid  -- find out what it's called
"Grid"

As yet another (possibly easier) alternative, you can use the XMonad.Layout.Renamed module (also in xmonad-contrib) to give custom names to your layouts, and use those.

For example, if you want to jump directly to the Full layout you can do

, ((modm .|. controlMask, xK_f), sendMessage $ JumpToLayout "Full")

Mirror a rectangle.

Compute the positions for windows using the default two-pane tiling algorithm.

The screen is divided into two panes. All clients are then partitioned between these two panes. One pane, the master, by convention has the least number of windows in it.