[Xmonad] Xinerama & switching workspaces

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

dave:
> Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> > dave:
> >> Spencer Janssen wrote:
> >>> You should try GreedyView in XMonadContrib.  Let me know how you like
> >>> it -- I've been considering making this the default behavior for some
> >>> time now.
> >>>
> >>>> And, is there a better way to find something on another workspace ?
> >>> Hmm, not sure about this one.  Maybe write a little script for
> >>> XMonadContrib that pipes window names to dmenu and gives the selected
> >>> window focus?
> >> Hi Spencer,
> >>
> >> I can't seem to find any doc in the code on how I should change the
> >> switching method over to use greedy view, I've imported it, where do I
> >> need to make the change ?
> > 
> > You'd rebind the call to 'view' in Config.hs, to be greedyView, I think.
> > 
> > Something like:
> > 
> >     [((m .|. modMask, k), f i)
> >         | (i, k) <- zip [0 .. fromIntegral workspaces - 1] [xK_1 ..]
> >         , (f, m) <- [(view, 0), (shift, shiftMask)]]
> >                       ^^^^
> > 
> > would be replaced with greedyView, so that mod-1..n calls that instead.
> > 
> > If that's indeed the fix, can you submit a documentation patch to
> > GreedyView.hs, illustrating how to call it?
> > 
> > -- Don
> 
> Hi Don,
> 
> That did the trick.  I've attached the patch to this email (having
> never generated a darcs patch before I'm not 100% if it's correct, but
> it seems to be :-) )
> 
> Cheers
> Dave
> 


Perfect. Patch applied. Distributed revision control and first class
patches -- forever! :-)

-- Don