[xmonad] multi-head bindings

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu> writes:

> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 08:56:33AM +1000, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
>> Brian Lewis <brian at lorf.org> writes:
>> 
>> > I have two monitors, left and right, and workspaces 1-6.
>> >
>> > I'd like to configure xmonad so that when I go to workspace 1, I see
>> > workspace 1 on the left, focused, and workspace 2 on the right.
>> >
>> > When I go to workspace 2, I'd like to see workspace 1 on the left, and
>> > workspace 2 on the right, focused.
>> >
>> > When I go to workspace 3, I'd like to see workspace 3 on the left,
>> > focused, and workspace 4 on the right. And so on.
>> >
>> > How can I do it? Thank you.
>> 
>> I think the XMonad.Layout.IndependentScreens module in -contrib does
>> this.
>
> It doesn't.  With IndependentScreens, the screens
> are... well.... independent.  Switching workspaces on one of the
> screens would not affect the other.

Oh, right.

Well, the you need to set up your keybindings to do both switches at the
same time; using IndependentScreens might make this a little easier to
work on (going on my vague recollection from last time I looked at the
module...).

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