[xmonad] How to swap screen in a multihead environment?

Mike Sampson mike at sambodata.com
Sat Aug 29 07:20:44 EDT 2009


On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Felix Bou<godel10 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just started to use xmonad, and it seems to me a great software
> for multihead screens.
>
> At his moment, I am using two physical screens and I would like to use
> a key binding to do the following thing: "swap screens".
>
> By swap screens I mean moving from
>  -the configuration [1 2] to the configuration [2 1]
>  -the configuration [1 3] to the configuration [3 1]
>  -the configuration [4 2] to the configuration [2 4]
> etc
> When I say configuration [1 2] I mean that workspace 1 is on left
> screen and workspace2 in on right screen; and the same idea for [2 1],
> [1 3], etc
>
> Does anybody know how to do this?

For me if I have [1 2] and use Mod-2 on screen 1 they swap. If I am on
screen 2 then Mod-1 would swap them.

Don't think I have done anything special for this to happen. Think it
works that way out of the box.

Mike


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