[xmonad] Changing workspace using the mouse

[Brent Yorgey]

You should also take a look at XMonad.Layout.WindowSwitcherDecoration,
which allows you to swap windows in the tiling order by dragging one
on top of another.

-Brent

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:01:41AM -0500, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> You might be interested in checking out the documentation for mouseBindings:
> http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad/XMonad-Core.html#v%3AmouseBindings
> For example, I could imagine setting up left click+scroll to move the 
> focused window up and down the stack, and right click+scroll to move the 
> focused window up and down the workspace list.  Untested example follows:
>
> import Data.Map
> import XMonad.Actions.CycleWS
> import XMonad.StackSet
>
> main = xmonad defaultConfig {
>   mouseBindings = const $ fromList [
>     ((button1Mask, button4), const (windows focusUp)),
>     ((button1Mask, button5), const (windows focusDown)),
>     ((button2Mask, button4), const (shiftToPrev >> prevWS)),
>     ((button2Mask, button4), const (shiftToNext >> nextWS))
>   ]
> }
>
> Quoting "Ian D. Leroux" <idleroux at fastmail.fm>:
>
>>
>> I'm interested in using the mouse to navigate between windows, while
>> retaining the benefits of tiled window management (I hate resizing
>> windows by hand).  Xmonad already lets me change the focus within a
>> workspace with the mouse.  Is there any way (possibly using an extension
>> or by interaction with an external tool) to use the mouse to switch
>> workspaces?  How about rearranging windows within a (tiled) workspace? I
>> haven't found anything relevant in the documentation or the list
>> archives, but I might not be searching for the right thing.  If no such
>> capability currently exists, do you have any tips on where I should
>> start if I want to try writing my own?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Ian Leroux
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