Brandon, thank you so much for this. (It had landed in my spam folder so I only found it now.) After adding that to my xmonad.hs I get these errors: xmonad.hs:68:17: Not in scope: `doTo' xmonad.hs:68:35: Not in scope: `getSortByIndex' xmonad.hs:68:67: Not in scope: `shift' Please check the file for errors. I checked the header of xmonad.hs and I am importing the file you mentioned: import Control.OldException import Control.Monad import XMonad import XMonad.Hooks.EwmhDesktops import qualified XMonad.StackSet as W import XMonad.Actions.CycleRecentWS import XMonad.Config.Gnome import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog import qualified XMonad.StackSet as W import XMonad.Util.EZConfig import XMonad.Actions.CycleWS import XMonad.ManageHook import XMonad.Hooks.ManageHelpers import XMonad.Layout.ShowWName import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks import XMonad.Util.Run(spawnPipe) import System.IO so I wonder why this is happening? thank you for any help! ~l ________________________________ From: Brandon Allbery To: Mike Meyer Cc: xmonad@haskell.org Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 2:57 AM Subject: Re: [xmonad] switching to the workspace where a window just went? Looking at the source to cycleWS, looks like what you want is something like

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Adam, thank you so much for the detailed help. Following instructions I sorted everything out except for doTo.   Is there a way to achieve the same effect without doTo/installing the newer xmonad-contrib? I am on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and trying to force the install of a more recent xmonad is proving beyond my abilities (all sorts of impossible to meet dependencies pop up). bye! ~l ________________________________ From: Adam Vogt To: xmonad@haskell.org Sent: Monday, January 2, 2012 6:18 PM Subject: Re: [xmonad] switching to the workspace where a window just went? Hi Lara, doTo is in XMonad.Actions.CycleWS in XMonadContrib 0.10 but not in XMonadContrib 0.9.* getSortByIndex needs an import XMonad.Util.WorkspaceCompare and finally I suspect shift might be  XMonad.StackSet.shift, which with your imports can be referred to as  W.shift Hope this helps. -- Adam * On Monday, January 02 2012, Lara Michaels wrote:

Brandon, thank you so much for this. (It had landed in my spam folder so I only found it now.)

After adding that to my xmonad.hs I get these errors: xmonad.hs:68:17: Not in scope: `doTo'

xmonad.hs:68:35: Not in scope: `getSortByIndex'

xmonad.hs:68:67: Not in scope: `shift'

Please check the file for errors.

I checked the header of xmonad.hs and I am importing the file you mentioned:

import Control.OldException import Control.Monad

import XMonad import XMonad.Hooks.EwmhDesktops import qualified XMonad.StackSet as W import XMonad.Actions.CycleRecentWS import XMonad.Config.Gnome import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog import qualified XMonad.StackSet as W import XMonad.Util.EZConfig import XMonad.Actions.CycleWS import XMonad.ManageHook import XMonad.Hooks.ManageHelpers import XMonad.Layout.ShowWName import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks import XMonad.Util.Run(spawnPipe) import System.IO

so I wonder why this is happening?

thank you for any help! ~l

________________________________ From: Brandon Allbery To: Mike Meyer Cc: xmonad@haskell.org Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 2:57 AM Subject: Re: [xmonad] switching to the workspace where a window just went?

Looking at the source to cycleWS, looks like what you want is something like

...

,("C-<F1>", doTo Next EmptyWS getSortByIndex $ \ws -> windows (shift ws) >>                                                       windows (greedyView ws)) -- brandon s allbery                                      allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available)     (412) 475-9364 vm/sms

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Lara Michaels [2011.12.30 0803 -0800]:

Mike -

...

, ("C-<F1>", shiftTo Next EmptyWS >> moveTo Next EmptyWS)

Thank you for this. :) I tried it out and what it does is

- it send the current window to the next empty workspace (e.g. display '5'); and it then - displays on the current screen the next empty workspace *coming after* the (previously empty) workspace that window just went to.

An example: I have workspaces 1,2,3. All are empty except for workspace 1, where I have two windows. I press C-<F1> and (A) the window gets sent to workspace 2 and (B) workspace 3 is displayed.

I guess it might have something to do with the order in which EmptyWS is being evaluated? (I am afraid I know nothing about Haskell.) By the time "moveTo Next EmptyWS" is executed, the workspace to which the window just got sent is no longer part of EmptyWS?

Does anyone know if it is possible to move to the workspace where the window just got sent to?

Brandon Allberry already provided the answer. N.