xmonad-contrib-0.11.1: Third party extensions for xmonad

Portability | unportable
Stability | unstable
Maintainer | <l.mai@web.de>
Safe Haskell | None

XMonad.Layout.MultiToggle

Contents

- Usage

Description

Dynamically apply and unapply transformers to your window layout. This can be used to rotate your window layout by 90 degrees, or to make the currently focused window occupy the whole screen ("zoom in") then undo the transformation ("zoom out").

Synopsis

- class (Eq t, Typeable t) => Transformer t a | t -> a where
  - transform :: LayoutClass l a => t -> l a -> (forall l'. LayoutClass l' a => l' a -> (l' a -> l a) -> b) -> b
- data Toggle a = forall t . Transformer t a => Toggle t
- (??) :: HList b w => a -> b -> HCons a b
- data EOT = EOT
- single :: a -> HCons a EOT
- mkToggle :: LayoutClass l a => ts -> l a -> MultiToggle ts l a
- mkToggle1 :: LayoutClass l a => t -> l a -> MultiToggle (HCons t EOT) l a
- class HList c a
- data HCons a b
- data MultiToggle ts l a

# Usage

The basic idea is to have a base layout and a set of layout transformers, of which at most one is active at any time. Enabling another transformer first disables any currently active transformer; i.e. it works like a group of radio buttons.

To use this module, you need some data types which represent transformers; for some commonly used transformers (including MIRROR, NOBORDERS, and FULL used in the examples below) you can simply import XMonad.Layout.MultiToggle.Instances.

Somewhere else in your file you probably have a definition of `layout`; the default looks like this:

     layout = tiled ||| Mirror tiled ||| Full

After changing this to

     layout = mkToggle (single MIRROR) (tiled ||| Full)

you can now dynamically apply the `Mirror` transformation:

     ...
       , ((modm,               xK_x     ), sendMessage $ Toggle MIRROR)
     ...

(That should be part of your key bindings.) When you press `mod-x`, the active layout is mirrored. Another `mod-x` and it's back to normal.

It's also possible to stack `MultiToggle`s. For example:

     layout = id
         . smartBorders
         . mkToggle (NOBORDERS ?? FULL ?? EOT)
         . mkToggle (single MIRROR)
         $ tiled ||| Grid ||| Circle

By binding a key to `(sendMessage $ Toggle FULL)` you can temporarily maximize windows, in addition to being able to rotate layouts and remove window borders.

You can also define your own transformers by creating a data type which is an instance of the `Transformer` class. For example, here is the definition of `MIRROR`:

     data MIRROR = MIRROR deriving (Read, Show, Eq, Typeable)
     instance Transformer MIRROR Window where
         transform _ x k = k (Mirror x) (\(Mirror x') -> x')

Note, you need to put `{-# LANGUAGE DeriveDataTypeable #-}` at the beginning of your file.

class (Eq t, Typeable t) => Transformer t a | t -> a where

A class to identify custom transformers (and look up transforming functions by type).

Methods

transform :: LayoutClass l a => t -> l a -> (forall l'. LayoutClass l' a => l' a -> (l' a -> l a) -> b) -> b

Instances

Transformer StdTransformers Window |
Transformer REFLECTY Window |
Transformer REFLECTX Window |

data Toggle a

Toggle the specified layout transformer.

Constructors

forall t . Transformer t a => Toggle t |

Instances

Typeable1 Toggle |
Typeable a => Message (Toggle a) |

(??) :: HList b w => a -> b -> HCons a b

Prepend an element to a heterogeneous list. Used to build transformer tables for `mkToggle`.

data EOT

Marks the end of a transformer list.

Constructors

EOT |

Instances

Read EOT |
Show EOT |
HList EOT w |

single :: a -> HCons a EOT

Construct a singleton transformer table.

mkToggle :: LayoutClass l a => ts -> l a -> MultiToggle ts l a

Construct a `MultiToggle` layout from a transformer table and a base layout.

mkToggle1 :: LayoutClass l a => t -> l a -> MultiToggle (HCons t EOT) l a

Construct a `MultiToggle` layout from a single transformer and a base layout.

class HList c a

Instances

HList EOT w |
(Transformer a w, HList b w) => HList (HCons a b) w |

data HCons a b

Instances

(Read a, Read b) => Read (HCons a b) |
(Show a, Show b) => Show (HCons a b) |
(Transformer a w, HList b w) => HList (HCons a b) w |

data MultiToggle ts l a

Instances

(Typeable a, Show ts, HList ts a, LayoutClass l a) => LayoutClass (MultiToggle ts l) a |
(LayoutClass l a, Read (l a), HList ts a, Read ts) => Read (MultiToggle ts l a) |
(Show ts, Show (l a), LayoutClass l a) => Show (MultiToggle ts l a) |