Thank you for replying Brandon. I think i understood some of it but i know i didnt understand this:

If you go to that workspace and press the toggle key for each window, the window will be moved to the new "NSP"; likewise if you don't go there and press the toggle key twice (once will bring it to the current workspace, second will move it to the new "NSP").

But reading your comment made realize something, (note: my haskelling is close to zero) 1. NSP still exist. how do i know? i have several scratchpads and when i hide them they actually go to the ws NSP but I myself cannot go to that workspace. (mod-0) but this is probably a separate/related issue. 2. ws 0 (mod-0) is not the same as NSP, but that is what i want WS 0 to be used for So perhaps i didnt phrase my question correctly, or i just didnt understand what was really happening. The keybinding should skip the NSP workspace when i cycle through them. It worked before because i actually defined the NSP workspace as "NSP". Now that i have a workspace 0, how can i make it behave as the NSP workspace so that the keybinding works? Or would it be easier to define "myWorkspaces" as?: *myWorkspaces = map show $ [1..9] ++ ["NSP"]* But i had tried that before but it didnt work. My assumption was because i was using an init and not a char data type. Thanks On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Dave Macias wrote:

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How can i get the keybinding to work when i've changed the NSP workpace name to an actual number?

NamedScratchpad is still using the name "NSP" internally; you can only change this by editing the module source and rebuilding.

What happened is that you added the workspace "0", and that is where "NSP" was in the StackSet, so that is where they got put after mod-q. So both xmonad and the NamedScratchpad module now think all those windows are on workspace "0" instead of in "NSP". If you go to that workspace and press the toggle key for each window, the window will be moved to the new "NSP"; likewise if you don't go there and press the toggle key twice (once will bring it to the current workspace, second will move it to the new "NSP").

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Ok, that makes sense. So in essence i could have up to 11 ws if NSP has a window. So that being the case is either of these possible? *myWorkspaces = map show $ [1..9] ++ [0] ++ ["NSP"]* myWorkspaces = map show $ [1..9] ++ ["NSP"] This, i believe, will solve the keybinding issue and still allow me to use the dice.ttf font. On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Dave Macias wrote:

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But reading your comment made realize something, (note: my haskelling is close to zero) 1. NSP still exist. how do i know? i have several scratchpads and when i hide them they actually go to the ws NSP but I myself cannot go to that workspace. (mod-0) but this is probably a separate/related issue. 2. ws 0 (mod-0) is not the same as NSP, but that is what i want WS 0 to be used for

If you have EwmhDesktops configured then you can use xdotool or wmctrl to switch to the new NSP workspace. (Note that it won't exist until something is moved there, unless you list it explicitly in your workspaces.)

As I said previously, you must modify the NamedScratchpad module in order to use a different workspace name. It does not work by slots (like the reloading of workspaces across mod-q does), it looks for NSP by name.

https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/blob/master/XMonad/Util/NamedScratc...

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You're using ($) wrong and will get a type error from trying to append a list of strings to a list of numbers.

I figure appending a string to numbers was the issue. The code worked. Thank you for the continue support. -Dave On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Dave Macias wrote:

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Ok, that makes sense. So in essence i could have up to 11 ws if NSP has a window.

So that being the case is either of these possible? *myWorkspaces = map show $ [1..9] ++ [0] ++ ["NSP"]*

You're using ($) wrong and will get a type error from trying to append a list of strings to a list of numbers.

myWorkspaces = map show [1..9] ++ ["0","NSP"]

is what I'd write, if I were using numeric workspaces (I use words).

It's still possible you'd need to move stuff off of "0" back to "NSP".

This, i believe, will solve the keybinding issue and still allow me to use

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the dice.ttf font.

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