It's dons! This is like the source for xmonad.

I have a favor to ask .. can you give me a modifier version of 'windows' that takes another argument (a workspace to apply it to); thus allowing me to manipulate WindowSet for something other than W.current ?

Thanks

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Don Stewart <dons@galois.com> wrote:
lowlycoder:
> 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.


It's the function that flushes the window set model out to actual
X server effects on the world. It has to map our abstract understanding
of the state of the X server to real bits flipped in xorg.

We hide all the evil state manipulation in one place, rather than
sprinkling it throughout the beautiful model.

-- Don