Hm... Do you have a slow computer? I cant reproduce that one on
my toshiba r500 laptop.
Does that happen with many applications?
Anyway, you are right about the big screen and using xmonad.
I, however, use it on my 12,1'' laptop, in which case I use "shift-mod-<num>"
to put my appl. to another desktop number <num>.
About your question on other tiling algorithms:
You can find them (look under layouts) here:
http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/
and install them just by including them into your config-file (xmonad.hs).
You should try this one:
http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad...-Maximize.html.
"Maximizes" the current app you use.
Cheers.
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