On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:32:44AM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
I find that xmonad switches screens too often for my taste. So I would like to try out new behavior. Has anyone implemented it already? If not, then I'd try to give it a go, but I don't know any Haskell...
Specifically:
* Currently, Mod-1 and friends may switch screens if that workspace is already visible on another screen.
I would like to make them beep instead, and not change workspaces.
I don't think anybody has implemented this. I don't see why you'd want to, but if you want this behavior, probably the easiest way to go about it would be to write a wrapper around "view" that checks if the workspace you're switching to is already visible and beeps (or whatever) if it is. Something like: (completely untested) myview :: WorkspaceId -> X () myview n = do ws <- gets workspace if n `elem` W.visibleWorkspaces ws then -- beep somehow else view n ...and then change your mod-[1..9] bindings to use "myview" instead of "view"
* Currently, RotView switches screens when the next workspace in line is on another screen.
I would like to make it skip such workspaces.
Example: Say I am on screen 0, showing workspace 1. Screen 1 shows workspace 3. Then rotating to the right should show workspace 2, then workspace 4, skipping workspace 3.
Good idea! I sent a patch to do this...it should show up in XMonadContrib shortly.
* I would like to retain the behavior of Mod-w, Mod-e, Mod-r switching screens.
That should be easy. :) Jason Creighton