Quoting Norbert Zeh
assume that I am currently looking at workspace A on the primary screen, while the secondary screen shows workspace B. Next I need to do some work on workspace C, but I would like to keep what I did on WS A visible. So I'd like to create a keybinding that shunts A off to my secondary screen (replacing B) and brings up C on my primary screen (replacing A).
Now here's the question: Is there a simple and elegant way to do this with the functions available in XMonadContrib? If not, am I right in assuming that I have to do some stackset surgery to achieve this? Any pointers are appreciated.
I'm not sure if there's anything already in XMonadContrib, but it should be totally easy to write on your own. We have windows :: (WindowSet -> WindowSet) -> X () type WindowSet = StackSet WorkspaceId (Layout Window) Window ScreenId ScreenDetail data StackSet i l a sid sd = StackSet { current :: Screen i l a sid sd, visible :: [Screen i l a sid sd], ...} So, we could maybe define a cycleScreens function: cycleScreens :: WindowSet -> WindowSet cycleScreens ss@(StackSet { current = c, visible = vs }) = let (c':vs') = vs ++ [c] in ss { current = c', visible = vs' } Then the keybindings you're asking for would something like [((modMask conf, key), windows (greedyView name . cycleScreens)) | (key, name) <- zip [xK_1 .. xK_9] (workspaces conf)] Note: this is all extemporaneous, not tested or even type-checked, so use at your own risk! Love, ~d