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[ubuntu] Xmonad and borders in gnome-shell

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I'm not sure if it's a proper place to ask about adjusting Xmonad, but I don't know where else to ask. I have Ubuntu 12.04 with gnome-shell (so it looks like Gnome 2 with horizontal borders on the top and the bottom of the screen) with Xmonad running. What I want to do is create a keyboard shortcut that would toggle these borders, basically switching applications on the screen to fullscreen and back. Can anyone tell me what should I write in xmonad.hs in order to achieve it? (I'm totally innocent of Haskell, unfortunately.) Thanks. (Hardware)

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Submitted by linuxfan on 08/24/2012

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First off: are you sure you need it? Secondly, what you found there in your link is an extension which should come with the xmonad-contrib package. You don't paste that into your xmonad.hs.This should give you an idea of what you need to do.You should probably read up on XMonad in general though, to figure out how to configure xmonad properly.

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