[BUG/IMPROVEMENT] Cross Layout is unusable with just 2 or 3 windows opened + windows glitch with mouse over (ever)

[thealio]

Problem Description

Hi, as reported in the title XMonad.Layout.Cross is unusable if you open only 2 or 3 windows: if you open only 2 windows: there are only two long & slim windows which one is above the other one. If you open only 3 widows , there are 3 windows on the right not tiled and not following the layout. When you use the mouse on this layout, it's kind of a hell. My distro is Arco Linux (Arch Linux repos)

Steps to Reproduce

Open just two windows under XMonad.Layout.Cross

Configuration File

https://xmonad.github.io/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib-0.16.999/XMonad-Layout-Cross.html

import XMonad.Layout.Cross(simpleCross)

myLayout = simpleCross ||| etc.. main = xmonad def { layoutHook = myLayout }

Issue

• With 2 windows opened The height of the two windows opened is too low. The two windows have exact the same poor dimensions, and one is above the other one The windows are on the top
• With 3 windows opened The dimensions are better, but the windows are on the right and even in this case , superimposed
• Mouse hover glitch When you put the mouse on a window, itìs totally a mess: windows are so glitched that you cannot select them

What I expected

• Windows disposed with the main windows in the center, and the other one (or the other ones) on the left and/or on the right, that go in the center when focused (as Cross layout works usually)
• Not glitch when the mouse is hover, maybe it's better to left-click with the mouse for select a windows, instead to put the mouse over it.

[thealio]

Hi, Any news about this issue?

[slotThe]

You're right, the cross layout seems to be completely broken; I reckon no one has used this layout in a while and it just bitrotted. I'm almost tempted to just deprecate it, to be honest, since it seems like there are many other "master pane in the center and stack around it" type of layouts, which also work muc hbetter.

[thealio]

You're right, the cross layout seems to be completely broken; I reckon no one has used this layout in a while and it just bitrotted. I'm almost tempted to just deprecate it, to be honest, since it seems like there are many other "master pane in the center and stack around it" type of layouts, which also work much better.

Hi can you suggest me some of these layouts? Currently, I use this instead the Cross Layout

||| layoutHintsWithPlacement (0.5, 0.5) Circle

[geekosaur]

ThreeColMid from XMonad.Layout.ThreeColumn may be of interest.

[thealio]

ThreeColMid from XMonad.Layout.ThreeColumn may be of interest.

I already use it as ResizableThreeColMid 1 (3/100) (1/2) []

[geekosaur]

Also it looks like nobody addressed your mouse glitching. Does "(ever)" mean you see it regardless of layout? We have lots of users (including @slotThe and myself) who don't have such a problem.

• Are you by any chance running a compositor?
• What X11 video driver are you using?

[thealio]

hi

• no compositor
• virtual machine on Virtualbox

[geekosaur]

Hm. It's not at all unusual for video drivers to have bugs with border rendering that cause effects like this, which can be worked around by using a compositor; but running a compositor in VirtualBox is not at all a good idea. I'm still thinking about this one and may set up a VB environment to test this in.

[geekosaur]

It took me a while to get VB set up because it behaves rather oddly on my system (I normally use VMWare Player as a result), but having set it up and gotten a working minimal Ubuntu install going, I can't reproduce video glitching.

[thealio]

mmm Maybe it's just a problem related to my hardware

[thealio]

Hi everybody,

I recently tried again import XMonad.Layout.Cross (simpleCross)

Now it works OK for me