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#### FAQ 4-13

#### Question 4.13

I don’t like the layout of summary and article buffer, how to change it? Perhaps even a three pane display?

#### Answer

You can control the windows configuration by calling the function gnus-add-configuration. The syntax is a bit complicated but explained very well in the manual node "Window Layout". Some popular examples:

Instead 25% summary 75% article buffer 35% summary and 65% article (the 1.0 for article means "take the remaining space"):

    (gnus-add-configuration
     '(article (vertical 1.0 (summary .35 point) (article 1.0))))

A three pane layout, Group buffer on the left, summary buffer top-right, article buffer bottom-right:

    (gnus-add-configuration
     '(article
       (horizontal 1.0
                   (vertical 25
                             (group 1.0))
                   (vertical 1.0
                             (summary 0.25 point)
                             (article 1.0)))))
    (gnus-add-configuration
     '(summary
       (horizontal 1.0
                   (vertical 25
                             (group 1.0))
                   (vertical 1.0
                             (summary 1.0 point)))))