However, what I would like to do is have a simple key-combo which will get me *directly* to a given workspace, such as Mod4-m to take me to the "mail" workspace, and so on; I want to be able to have meaningful shortcuts, not just numbers.
But I haven't been able to figure out what the correct command is to bind to the keymap. I've made guesses, but they're all illegal Haskell; no surprise, because I don't know Haskell. (Some day, but not now).
I mean, I know I need to add someCommand to my key-list, but what?
, ((mod4Mask, xK_m), someCommand someOptions)
I think the command you are looking for is windows $ W.view "mail" assuming that you have somewhere at the top of your config import qualified XMonad.StackSet as W Does that help? -Brent