On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 02:39:07PM -0800, lowly coder wrote:
I'm looking at the 'windows' function, and do not understand why it's so complicated. If it's just WindowSet -> WindowSet ... why is it so long?
I ask this because I want to manipulate the WindowSet of a workspace that is _NOT_ visible; the only function that is WindowSet -> WindowSet is "windows". However, windows has W.current hard coded into it -- and I'm not sure what all of the other stuff in there is.
You seem to have some misconceptions about WindowSet. A WindowSet encompasses all workspaces: current, visible and non-visible. The idiom for modifying non-current workspaces is to first view it, perform the modification, then view the previously viewed workspace. For example: onWorkspace :: WorkspaceId -> (WindowSet -> WindowSet) -> (WindowSet -> WindowSet) onWorkspace wsid f w = view (currentTag w) . f . view wsid $ w (actually, this should probably be a primitive in XMonad.StackSet) Cheers, Spencer Janssen