[xmonad] Wanting to do a window-shift in a event handler

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 5/1/11 21:36 , Michael Norrish wrote:
> On 02/05/11 11:20, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>> On 5/1/11 20:28 , Michael Norrish wrote:
>>> giving me a handle on an Endo Windowset, but I don't know how to
>>> lift that into the X monad (where I have to eventually return $ All
>>> True).  Can I use the withWindowSet function somehow?
>> windows (W.shift "mail" w)
>> which reruns the layout with the specified modification.
> 
> This doesn't quite work because w is a Window, not a WindowSet.  However, the following does appear to do the right thing
> 
>   action <- runQuery (doShift "mail") w
>   windows (appEndo action)

Yeh, I did that without looking fully; shift uses the focused window instead
of a specified one.  Sorry about that.

The correct expression looks to be

>   windows (W.shiftWin "mail" w)

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